Living... Digital? Nature?
Is living becoming more difficult or easier?
The historical context we are living in affects living spaces and, consequently, how we stay together and personal, cultural, political, social, etc. relationships.
How do you think this moment of epochal change should be interpreted, narrated, and addressed?
And what objects and environments do we need for it to become a positive, human-friendly, prolific, inclusive, and lasting change?
These are the questions we, as RHNH, are asking those, like you, who think, design, and work to create the devices of living.
As RHNH, we want to create a collection of objects for living and letters that tell the story of them. All so that it remains as a document of hopes or fears, of seeds planted and forgotten and those grown into trees, of projects realized and utopias lost along the way.
100 letters and 100 physical and digital creations.
You may be wondering how we came up with this: the inspiration starts from a far-sighted, and unfortunately unrealized project by Kurt Tucholsky, who in 1913, in the Berlin of the time, wanted to establish a magazine of his own to call Orion.This lawyer/journalist/writer/poet and biting critic had thought of an "Epistolary Yearbook" that would collect the thoughts of the greats of the time on the moment they were living.
It had only a beginning: Rainer Maria Rilke and Hermann Hesse had immediately accepted the invitation, sending a poem and a text.
What a precious document would this magazine become? A clear, lucid, conscious, and perhaps at times naive reading of a key moment in Western history.
Today history moves fast, maybe even faster than in the short century.
Today it is even more important to document the ongoing changes so as not to find ourselves unprepared when reality, the world, becomes something almost unrecognizable to our own eyes. And, at the same time, it is also crucial to select and keep in mind the important things left us by the past times to design and create spaces of possibility in which to conceive and build futures.
Out of all this we, as RHNH, want to create an epistolary collection that photographs this moment. Almost a photographic snapshot, around inhabiting, around the individual's interaction with spaces and objects, and especially around the interaction with nature.
We thought of you to have your vision, your photographic snapshot, through a letter and an object about this moment in the West. A moment in which we question our relationship with the natural world - with plants, with non-human beings-; in which we wonder how to use the digital and not get overwhelmed by it; and what and how to build on top of the cultural heritage that has been handed down to us.
We thought of you to contribute to this project that will ultimately, when the 100 views on the contemporary are collected, result in a book.
In the physical and digital.
We look forward to hearing from you but will limit ourselves to a
see you soon!
