counterspace deiene
I deiene Deiene’s work is about using design to experiment with. Above all, it’s connected with stories told skilfully, stories told in different contexts, stories we tell ourselves, in other words. What exists has to be transformed; what doesn’t exist has no limits.
The work is based on taking up space. Using space as a pretext, the aim is for the spectators to in uence and provoke each other. Interior design has many contradictions within it, but Deiene believes it’s time to start transforming them. There are many different ways to create aesthetics, and this designer is deeply committed to investigating that. Nowadays, this artist’s work is based on experimenting with space; taking the context of each place as the main axis, the artist creates collaborative work with the people who use each space. The work is not just working towards a result; the most important thing is the process itself. It’s that process which will strengthen or weaken the collaboration. “Contraespacio” is the straight answer to a problem; people who work in prostitution need a space to be able to develop as people and to socialise within the community they live in. In this case, the main objective is to study the power which design can have in collective activities. The project is set in the San Frantzisko district of Bilbao; the local economic, social, cultural and town planning shortcomings have led to that space being transformed. “Contraespacio” was born of that need and, so, it offers three parallel spaces: public, impure and private, always with the intention of sharing and discussing ideas. Each space has its own characteristics, but everyone’s invited to swap ideas.
The project is used to give answers to those needs, creating a skin, giving a metaphor about how prostitutes are seen. Each point of view gives its own perspective, but if all of those points of view are external, we’ll never know what’s happening inside.
The skin has to be softened from outside and, once inside, made to disappear. In that way a human space is created which respects the existing skeleton instead of competing with it. The term “Contraespacio” is taken from town-planner Henri Lefevre’s political point of view about space. He says that the struggle for space and the source of political objectives is the ght in favour of space; social production in which values are continually compared with each other by trial, struggle and consensus.
It is rationalising the image of space because of humans have the right to create spaces in order to be able to put together that image.
If prostitution has always been a topic for the police and social workers, why not for designers too?
The work is based on taking up space. Using space as a pretext, the aim is for the spectators to in uence and provoke each other. Interior design has many contradictions within it, but Deiene believes it’s time to start transforming them. There are many different ways to create aesthetics, and this designer is deeply committed to investigating that. Nowadays, this artist’s work is based on experimenting with space; taking the context of each place as the main axis, the artist creates collaborative work with the people who use each space. The work is not just working towards a result; the most important thing is the process itself. It’s that process which will strengthen or weaken the collaboration. “Contraespacio” is the straight answer to a problem; people who work in prostitution need a space to be able to develop as people and to socialise within the community they live in. In this case, the main objective is to study the power which design can have in collective activities. The project is set in the San Frantzisko district of Bilbao; the local economic, social, cultural and town planning shortcomings have led to that space being transformed. “Contraespacio” was born of that need and, so, it offers three parallel spaces: public, impure and private, always with the intention of sharing and discussing ideas. Each space has its own characteristics, but everyone’s invited to swap ideas.
The project is used to give answers to those needs, creating a skin, giving a metaphor about how prostitutes are seen. Each point of view gives its own perspective, but if all of those points of view are external, we’ll never know what’s happening inside.
The skin has to be softened from outside and, once inside, made to disappear. In that way a human space is created which respects the existing skeleton instead of competing with it. The term “Contraespacio” is taken from town-planner Henri Lefevre’s political point of view about space. He says that the struggle for space and the source of political objectives is the ght in favour of space; social production in which values are continually compared with each other by trial, struggle and consensus.
It is rationalising the image of space because of humans have the right to create spaces in order to be able to put together that image.
If prostitution has always been a topic for the police and social workers, why not for designers too?
