Book of crazy ships

September 20, 2019 Eduard Kubensky dined in the Uzbek cafe. He ordered pilaf and mineral water. Even before the removal of the finished dish, he brought cutlery. Twisting in his hands a fork, he read the word "eternity" on it. In anticipation of food, Eduard walked the word “Uzbekistan” and with surprise for himself that according to one version, this word means “a country of free people”. Both of these facts seemed to him by a kind of sign, and he decided to participate in the contest of the curators of the Architecture 'festival, in which he subsequently won with the theme “Eternity.” Which was “transparency”, Eduard Kubensky presented one of the curators of the festival Vladimir Kuzmin with a transparent plastic disposable fork with the inscription “Eternity” as an act of continuity of those festivals walking after another. Vladimir accepted a gift. On the New Year holidays of 2020, honing the manifesto of the future festival, Edward several times revised the film by Nathaniel Kan “My Architect” dedicated to his father, architect Luis Kan. His special attention attracted the plot “To the Sea”, starting in the 51st minute, which tells how Luis Kan, in order to captivate his son with the theme of creativity, invites him to come up with a project of the ship on which the orchestra of his friend-Diriper will live and speak. The result of the game is a homemade notebook shown in the film, on the cover of which it was written: "Book of crazy ships." The book consists of three turns. The first shows the “ship from the forks”, on the second-the “shift ship” and on the third-“Sosic ship with toothpicks stuck in it.”

Luis Kan is convinced: the fundamental quality of any creativity is freedom. The artist should be free from all kinds of "-images", functions, material and technology. He should not obey them, but use them to achieve a high goal of creation. Living today, to be part of the moment of life - this means living forever. Finding the quality of eternity, according to the architect, is achieved in the process of creativity as an inseparable act, which contains the fullness of being at a time. At the end of January 2020, at one of the meetings of the Directorate of the Festival "Architecture", the vice-president of the Union of Architects of Russia, Viktor Logvinov, jokingly, for the word "eternity" four letters "brow", as a result of which the word "humanity".

Inspired by all the above events and facts, Eduard Kubensky finally decides to build two manors-manifests for the Architecture festival: the ship “from the forks”, illustrating the theme “Eternity”, and the ship “from sausages”, illustrating the theme “Humanity”. During the first wave of pandemia caused by Covid-19, due to new circumstances from April to May 2020, Eduard Kubensky completely changes the concept of filling the festival, leaving only the declared topic. He offers familiar architects to build their crazy ships as evidence of creative freedom, continuity and giftedness. More than 40 captains respond to his offer. Together they go to the sea. The Book of Crazy ships is a project catalog.