ILLIGO
TO ATTACH OR CONNECT TWO THINGS TO FORM ONE.
We exist out of connections.
Everything we see, we connect to a concept we already have of it.
When we think of a tree for instance,
it has all the primary elements of a tree but it’s not an existing tree like we’ve seen before, we see our own concept of one.
It is shaped out of only the essence of a tree. The things that make a tree, we’ve learned through previous experiences we’ve had with the concept of one.
it’s The rough sketch of what we call a tree, consisting of only the features that make us call it a tree.
Everyone has their own sketch.
Everyone has their own world.
look around and connect the concepts we already have of things to what we actually see.
This is how we make sense of the world.
We differentiate the things we see and give them names.
These become categorical names for concepts, just as a tree.
We live in a shared world.
We interpret that shared world according to our world of concepts.
Illigo invites everyone to become aware of this, by using it.
Before we use it, we interpret its use.
This, we do with our world of concepts.
Many of its features can be recognized as being everything or nothing.
This makes the user free to connect any concept.
like ‘chair’, ‘shelf’ or ‘side-table’ to it.
Its function is multi-fluid.
It is free by not being anything.
It can be everything because it is nothing.
It is a play of being since it can be everything and is never limited by its being.
The object itself is able to be attached to another of itself.
This shows it connecting the world to itself.
Instead of becoming two of itself it becomes one new piece.
It can be one or many.
Even in quantity it is a matter of interpretation.
It confronts the user with the fact that the shared world doesn't have a monopoly on reality.
We make our own reality.
The design connects us to the shared world.
Because the concepts we connect are exactly this;
ourselves, our world.
It connects the shared world to our world of concepts and makes an ‘in-between world’ where we live and function.