It is only upon waking that I come to realize that the dream objects (the shells, the beach) were only mental fabrications, temporally dislocated, with no spatial reality.
Tables and nebulae and eyes are mental fabrications that have no existence apart from their "shape" (ākāra), the way they appear.[45] The second level points to the causal story that brings about such appearances.
Mental Fabrications navigates techno-novelty and architectural experiment.
Architect Ion Popian's latest project, Mental Fabrications, built sculptural forms from data culled from the unconscious mind.
Regardless if Mental Fabrications will advance the future of urban landscapes, this is a literal mind-bending installation that forces you to witness your inner gears and levers. .
Architects use emotive responses to their environment to inform their practice everyday, and Mental Fabrications is a tool allowing them to integrate that into their process. .
The film was created as part of the Mental Fabrications exhibit at Harvestworks, curated by architect Ion Popian, and shown in conjunction with another film by Shulman, Genesis 3D (watch the behind-the-scenes below). .
Architect Ion Popian's latest project, Mental Fabrications, mixes architectural provocation with a feeling like the uncanny in an installation piece that is part architectural research lab and part social experiment.
These are the body, physical feelings, mental fabrications (thoughts and fantasies, feelings, images & cognition etc), perception and consciousness.
These are Mental fabrications - thoughts, intentions, ideas etc, Verbal fabrication - logically this one is speech and Physical fabrications - actions etc. 3. Dependent on these formations, comes consciousness.
