Re: [Origami] Origami Digest, Vol 131, Issue 5

[Eric Gjerde]

> From: Matthew Gardiner >
> Subject: Re: [Origami] Froebel - Seventh Gift - origami and ratios
> Date: March 4, 2017 at 9:48:27 PM CST
> To: The Origami Mailing List  >
> 
> 
> On 4 Mar. 2017, at 1:11 am, Laura R  > wrote:
>> 
>>> I came across something quite wonderful in my PhD research today.
>>> 
>>> I picked up a book on Frank Lloyd Wright, an American architect with a 
>>> considerable global reputation, at the University library, therein I 
>>> discovered that he was inspired for a series of window-frame designs, and I 
>>> suspect for the use of proportion in his career, by the seventh gift of 
>>> Froebel as his insight into proportion.
>> 
>> You should get the book Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman. There 
>> is a whole chapter about the influence of kindergarten ideas (and behind 
>> that, Froebel’s) on Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as other modern artists. 
>> Quoting from its cover: “Using examples from the work of important artists 
>> who attended kindergarten —including Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Paul 
>> Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier, among others 
>> —he demonstrates that the design ideas of kindergarten prefigured modern 
>> conceptions for the aesthetic power of geometric abstraction.” Norman 
>> Brosterman’s amazing collection of Froebelian crafts was part of a MoMa 
>> exhibition, Century of the Child, in 2011: 
>> http://www.brosterman.com/kindergarten.shtml 
>> . 
>> But get the book, you’ll love it. 
>> 
>> Laura Rozenberg
> 
> Thanks so much Laura and Patsy for chiming in here, I’m going to get that 
> book!
> 
> I happened to also borrow a book on the Bauhaus teaching methodology - 
> following a research trail left by Erik Demaine on Curved Folding, and from 
> the list of artist you mention Klee and, Kandinsky were teachers at the 
> Bauhaus. Made me wonder if they are connected - being German - the time 
> periods bookending… after a little more research, and I find the connection 
> is already documented. 
> 
> "The Bauhaus ... including the way in which it was set up by Walter Gropius 
> and Johannes Itten, its roots in the work of Friedrich Froebel” 
> - Lerner, Fern. "Foundations for design education: continuing the Bauhaus 
> Vorkurs vision." Studies in Art Education 46.3 (2005): 211-226.
> 
> Without reading Inventing Kindergarten, I can see the same visual and 
> sculptural language in Froebel and Bauhaus. The visual and sculptural 
> language - including origami - was being influenced by more than a casual 
> connection of Froebelian methods, Froebel was in the roots of the course 
> design. 
> 
> The transfer from Froebel origami to Bauhaus paper folding is a very 
> interesting connection. 
> 
> This is a plausible reason as to why Albers was teaching paper folding in the 
> preliminary course in the first place. Paper as a medium has an intrinsic 
> property: it can be folded. Folding is geometry; is mathematics; is a 
> structural language. 
> 
> This point in particular would be of interest to origami to know more about. 
> 
> Matthew Gardiner

Keeping the whole string of info quoted here for relevance, my apologies for 
the big text block.

Matthew, there is indeed a well documented and strong connection between 
Froebel, the Bauhaus, and further people as well (Frank Gehry, for example). 
Many of the Bauhaus instructors grew up in Froebelian kindergartens and were 
deeply tied to the lessons provided in this very different way of teaching 
children. Norman’s book on Froebel is truly fascinating and absolutely worth 
getting if you’re at all interested - he has an amazing collection of materials 
on the subject.

My wife and I have been working on a book about Froebel folding, and in a 
related connection, I am teaching an Albers-inspired Vorkurs course at the 
Bauhaus Bernau school just outside of Berlin this August 
(https://summerschool-bernau.de/2017/en/ 
). Many of the techniques we do in 
origami are applicable to an exploratory course, and nobody taught it better 
than Josef Albers!

My 2 cents

Eric Gjerde

[Origami] Call for Papers FOOD PACKAGING: UNCOVERING THE HISTORY International Symposium, 1-2 December 2017, Tokyo Fwd: H-Environment

[Karen Reeds]

Surely someone can come up with a talk on the history of origami in food
packaging!

Karen

Karen Reeds, co-ringleader,
Princeton Public Library Origami Group
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
We usually meet 2nd Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8pm, 3rd floor. Free!
We provide paper! All welcome! (Kids under 8, please bring a grown-up.)
Princeton Public Library info:  609.924.9529
https://princetonlibrary.org/

from Karen Reeds
karenmre...@gmail.com

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   1. Call for Papers FOOD PACKAGING: UNCOVERING THE HISTORY International
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Call for Papers FOOD PACKAGING: UNCOVERING THE HISTORY International
Symposium, 1-2 December 2017, Tokyo

by Rebecca Tompkins
Call for Papers

FOOD PACKAGING:
UNCOVERING THE HISTORY

International Symposium, 1-2 December 2017, Tokyo

Convenors:
Prof. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka (Leiden University) and Prof. Masanobu Ishikawa
(Kobe University)


This will be the very first symposium on the history of food packaging to
bring together scholars and
industry experts with the aim of mapping the agenda for investigating this
as yet largely uncharted topic.
It will offer a unique opportunity for discussion for anthropologists,
economists, geographers, historians,
and sociologists interested in, or working on, any aspect of food packaging
history since 1900.

We invite proposals for papers examining material culture, technology, the
business of food packaging
and so on, both in the past and in the present. Possible topics might
include (but need not be limited to)
the history of packaging materials, design, production processes,
distribution, and waste and recycling.
We welcome papers that deal with the cultural, economic, political, and
social contexts that influence
attitudes, practices, and policies related to food packaging.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the open-access
journal Worldwide Waste:
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (www.worldwidewastejournal.com).

The symposium will be organised jointly by Leiden University and Kobe
University, in close cooperation
with 3x3 Lab Future (http://www.ecozzeria.jp/about/facility.html) and Gomi
Japan (https://gomi-
jp.jimdo.com). It is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO), as part of
the activities undertaken within the framework of the Garbage Matters
Project
(www.garbagemattersproject.com).

DETAILS

• The conference will run from the morning of 1 December to the evening of
2 December.
• The organisers will cover the meals and accommodation of paper presenters
(max. 3 nights).
• The language of the conference will be English.
SUBMITTING A PAPER PROPOSAL
• The deadline for submitting a paper proposal is 15 April 2017.
• Submit your abstract of max. 200-300 words in an e-mail (no attachments)
to
fph2...@garbagemattersproject.com.
• The subject line should read ‘Abstract: Food Packaging History 2017’.
• Include a brief biographical statement of max. 150 words, institutional
affiliation, and contact
details.
• We will let you know whether your proposal has been accepted by 1 May
2017.



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Re: [Origami] korean cranes

[Hans Dybkjær]

Hans Dybkjær
Site: papirfoldning.dk
Society: foldning.dk
> Den 20. mar. 2017 kl. 07.33 skrev Hatori, Koshiro :
> 
> Dear Miranda, jassu and all,
> 
>>> On the Facebook page of the Origami Therapy Association is a message saying
>>> that there's a difference between a Japanese crane and a Korean one.
> 
>> I'm Korean and I also have no idea about the different of origami crane 
>> between Japanese and Korean.
> 
> It is curious. I am Japanese and I do hear about "Korean-style" crane. 
> I googled somewhat and found an instruction video on YouTube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4BlI8IYkDc
> I have always wondered if it really originated in Korea, and now my 
> suspicion gets a bit stronger.

The distinctive feature of the crane in this video is that the narrowing is 
made via parallel folds in the body rather than corner folds of the head and 
tail.

I know this technique as a "parallel crane", 
http://papirfoldning.dk/da/ugensfold/2010-07.html (sorry about the Danish only 
text) which is a design by Simon Andersen, Denmark. Compared to the video, the 
tail of Simon's parallel crane is folded differently, in a quite striking way. 
Folding instructions by me, 2010, here: 
http://papirfoldning.dk/da/diagrammer/trane02.html

Simon wrote an essay about the difference between Japanese and Western origami, 
using his parallel crane as an example: 
http://papirfoldning.dk/en/simons/simonsiger_2010-07.html

As folding the parallel narrowing is pretty simple, it is quite likely that 
this technique has appeared independently in different parts of the world. I 
like, however, Simon's philosophical take and his asymmetric treatment of head 
and tail.

Regards,
Hans

Hans Dybkjær
Site: papirfoldning.dk
Society: foldning.dk