collection
Transparency: glass, interface, photography
Transparency as a promise of access and simultaneously as a technique of visual control.
About this collection
Transparency is almost always presented as openness: the mechanism is visible, the process is visible, there is nothing to hide. This route tests the promise from the other side — transparency is just as often a way of governing exactly what one is permitted to see.
Material
- Glass — transparency, reflection, and the architecture of light.
- Acrylic / PMMA — transparency, colour, light, and thickness.
- Architectural Textiles — membranes, light, and space.
The building as display
- Neue Nationalgalerie as a Space of Display — a space where display matters more than wall.
- The Shop Window — Product Theatre Between Street and Interior — the boundary between street and interior as a design problem.
- Prada Epicenter: when the store became a research project — publicness as an architectural programme.
Transparency of the mechanism
- Braun: how product design became a system — a transparent lid as a claim about the device’s honesty.
- Minimalism: why absence sometimes costs more than decoration — when there is nothing to hide behind, precision decides everything.
Transparency of the image
- Photoshop: the history of an image no longer trusted — what disappeared was not honesty but the record of alteration.
- Who authors the image in the age of generative AI — provenance as a technical problem.
- Retouching — From Negative to Digital Image — from negative to digital image.