RAABEART-MANIFESTO

RaabeArt is a multi-disciplinar nomad lab. We design multi-sensorial experiences developing prototypes, diagrams, reports, articles, conceptual ideas documentations, videos, performances and installations. RaabeArt examines and works simultaneously with visual arts, architecture, theatre, conceptual art, land art, graphic arts, typography, photography, sociology, literature, cheap art, painting and weaving using all the available tools, all the skills and all the possibilities employing a wide range of techniques.

RaabeArt works for the free development of individual creativity, we search for autonomous research tools, we deconstruct, we spread architecture, we are opened to every possible contamination, we break disciplinar ties and go beyond the static conventional rules. RaabeArt developes a nomadic research, learning directly from action and experience without tracing the boundaries of Knowledge definitively. We pay maximum attention to process transparency because we believe in cultural generosity.

METHODOLOGY

Design process at RaabeArt is grounded in a collaborative methodology that involves the scientific fields of creative production, exploring the spatial possibilities of fluxes and transformation. RaabeArt maps to learn, works by subtraction to return to the generative focal points, interacts with the context and bases the design process on user observations. RaabeArt replaces the conventional abstraction of the Program with the contingent concreteness of the Function. We reject models of homologation choosing the contamination of languages and codes. We use “dissatisfaction” as a methodology and its extraordinarily broadening effect on the imaginative faculties, undermining all dogmatic certainties.

All the projects never come to a conclusion because each of them can be synthesized or implemented further on. Craft. Collaboration. Left-brain, Right-brain. Passion. Curiosity. We think there’s no substantial difference between artist and artisan but there’s only one community of creators. We work manually with cheap and raw materials using new technologies to support observation, analysis and communication. RaabeArt leads experimental experiences on:

- collaborative art and participative design
- interaction design
- kid-centric design
- bottom up processes
- theory of emergence