Part of Housewarming exhibition by Fabrica and Airbnb for Salone del Mobile 2015
For his Housewarming project, Dawid has designed a smartphone app that will interact with guests as they walk around the Palazzo Crespi and share a fictional narrative. He explores and combines the ritual of a host giving a guest tour and the idea of guest exploring a house alone.
© Marco Zanin
NOTES:
We are always making assumptions in order to function in an unknown environment. Our first impressions of a person are based on assumptions, which clouds our perception of their space. We effectively layer the unknown environment in front of us with thick coats of what we already know.
This makes our perceptions of the world and of space very subjective. Every visitor will have a unique experience with this exhibit, as everyone discovers a different non linear story through the app by moving at their own pace and exploring the space in no particular order.
© Marco Zanin
The story visitors could experience:
I entered the house
full of different kinds of objects that were, for sure, property of somebody who used to live here.
I felt really welcomed in this place, as if someone had opened the door…
…and said “Please, come in,
I will show you my house”
…so I started wandering
around and discovering things
about the host…
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AN ALARM CLOCK
…the alarm clock was set for 7:00am…
…the person must have left quite early, and couldn’t finish the tea, the mug on the table is only half empty…
…by the way, who still uses alarm clocks like this?
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A BIKE LOCK
Look at this bike lock
over there…
…so he used to bike
around the city…
…he probably left with
the bike today…
…but wait, why didn’t he take the bike lock, is it broken?
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A PILE OF BOOKS
hmm… some books about architecture, and most
of them quite new…
…book about artist
Roman Opalka, he was very dedicated to his ritual
and life long art piece…
…this book looks like some criminal novel…
…ah, Hemingway.
I remember, he told me he was reading this book and the plot is situated in Venice and other places he used to stay when he lived in Italy…
…I wonder what
language this is…
…and this… this book…
what a mysterious title:
Locus Solus…
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A WELL-USED CHAIR
It must be his favorite chair.
I should also have a seat…
…the mirror…
…it reflects what is behind…
…ah, it is a Venetian mask.
I remember he invited me to Venice, but I couldn't make it.
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AN OPEN INVITATION
…there is an invitation
in an open envelope…
…it looks like
he read it already…
…the date has already past,
I’m curious if he went…
…this is an invitation for a carnival party, so this is where the mask came from…
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A BLUE NOTEBOOK
I think it is his notebook,
a nice one…
…and a bunch of Post-It notes with many keywords that tell me nothing…
…it looks like they are related to some kind of research.
I think he told me he is doing something with computers – programming or something like that…
…the flight ticket destination is Warsaw, he traveled to Poland recently…
…wait! So maybe the language in the book was Polish…
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Installation uses a beacon technology in order to determine visitors location inside the exhibition space.
Local Host
Project by Dawid Górny
Graphic Design by Aaron Gillett
Studio photos by Shek Po Kwan