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Hotel Design Award 2004 for the Radisson SAS in Berlin. Recently, she drew on her own experiences as a mother and a businesswoman to launch
myKidsy.com, the fi rst website to offer time-poor parents a comprehensive directory of fun and engaging out-of-school courses for their children. She loves meeting people and the infl uences they bring, she tells me. “I’ve been travelling all my life and constantly meet the most talented people. I’m always impressed by those who come up with new ideas. “Everywhere I go I have a pen and paper near me. I see and hear things and write them down. The best ideas just come to you. They’re natural, not forced. “I believe in people. In fact, I believe the next big thing in technology won’t come from those in the tech world hut those who are creative. It’s why we have to teach our children not just about technology but how to use it.” So, back to the future - and the talk everyone was talking about. Given the current developments in design and architecture, materials have even more meaning and necessity today. In the past, she points out, many offi ces or hotels looked the same, it was all very predictable. Today’s requirements to be unique and authentic has added a growing pressure to research unusual and, importantly, materials that are sustainable.
These days, she says, materials have more functions than just the beauty of the look. She’s always been something of a cheerleader for natural, recyclable materials. These days she talks enthusiastically, for example, about fabrics that clean the air. “We have to look at our ecological footprint.
There are so many exciting materials from banana leafs, resins, old bottles or other residues that we used. I think that such materials have a big future. “It’s a little bit like the organic food. In the beginning it was very expensive and nobody really was consuming it and now it’s everywhere in the supermarkets. With materials it is the same – once the melt is growing there will be more ecological materials used for design or architecture. In an interview for the interzum blog she was asked where
she saw the biggest challenges in terms of the living spaces of the future? She replied: “I worked with Airbus and, by designing the interior of a plane, you have to discuss about millimetres. In the living sector, it’s becoming a bit like this. We have to fi nd clever furniture that is multi-functional, that use the space in a much better way. “Obviously, materials in micro apartments are even more important, because you are very close to anything. You see everything in vicinity. I think we also have to change the mood of spaces. There are digital tools that you can use for it, but there is also lighting that can change from day to evening. I want to integrate lighting and sound into living spaces. Can you replicate nice natural sounds in a city apartment? How can you fi lter clean air?” She sums it up in a sentence. “You have to think more about the wellbeing of the inhabitants,” she said.
INTERVIEW: RICHARD BURTON |
mahmoudieh.com
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