[Use this link to go to the overview of the themes at Balkis Productions.]
GLOBAL COMMUNICATION (English)
Yona Friedman: “Communication is limited by ‘critical groupsize’.”
ANIMAL SOCIETY (English)
Yona Friedman: “Animals don’t know ‘exchange’.”
(How human society compares unfavorable to that of animals in our way to relate to one another.)
THINGS TO USE FOR YOURSELF (English)
Yona Friedman: “A revision of systems of values”
WE ARE NOT GOVERNED BY LAWS (English)
Yona Friedman: “The decisive power of customs”
GOD MADE THE GARDEN OF EDEN (English)
Yona Friedman: “How ‘consuming’ became our guideline.”
ALL INFORMATION BECOMES MANIPULATION (English)
Yona Friedman: “The title explains itself.”
HOLISTIC LANGUAGE-SIMPLY (English)
Yona Friedman: “Text and image are easier to understand.”
(On how we sense things.)
CHANGEMENTS SOCIAUX (French)
(On how art and ideas may cause social change.)
REALIZABLE UTOPIAS (English)
(On how realizing utopian goals can only work through personal communication and how likely they are to fail.
Note: the ideas for utopian solutions for society stem from a darker notion.
Yona Friedman: “By the way: God’s Utopia did not succeed. Our universe is the rubbish heap left over after the Big Bang.”)