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05/23/2007

How Geeks Design Elevators

Ok, so it's not exactly an elevator, but it definitely looks more fun to ride wouldn't you agree? Unfortunately, this gigantic, spiraling slide is located in Belgium. More pictures after the break.
For Carsten Höller, the experience of sliding is best summed up in a phrase by the French writer Roger Caillois as a ‘voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind’. The slides are impressive sculptures in their own right, and you don’t have to hurtle down them to appreciate this artwork. What interests Höller, however, is both the visual spectacle of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend. (Tate Modern)
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This entry was posted on 05/23/2007 03:30am and is filed under Design, Random .
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Posted at 04/16/2008 04:55am by Zondi
Sorry but on almost every level this article is just wrong. That is an modern art installation in London's Tate Modern gallery, not in Belgium and I doubt the people who designed it would describe themselves as geeks.
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