Opos Competition 2006: Transformer

Opos Competition 2006 Transformer
This year OPOS aims at directing the research in design towards the idea of transformation.

Our contemporary world, at any latitude and longitude, seems to be dominated by change.

Though in apparent absence of ideologies and major positive utopias, the material and immaterial environment experience non-stop changes at the speed of thought, of calculation, of communication.

So do people, places, objects and their values.

Our very identities change and the dimension of our existence transforms itself, becoming trans-cultural, trans-biological, trans-generational, trans-gender, trans-genic, trans-itory.

Similarly do the places where we live, the objects we use, the life forms we observe, the languages we speak.

Opos intends to strongly emphasise that change is getting faster and faster, more and more common, involving people and the way they define their identities, the spaces of their social and individual lives, their experiences in today's world.

Bearing in mind this dominating movement, OPOS is asking a simple question: an exact, moderate and motivated resistance to change, an attitude of diversity and originality, or a little, exemplary antagonism, be they in form of an emblematic object or work, could these factors contribute to our change?

To design transformation with the right