 Short manifestos on magnets, starting from previous manifestos of the past
  The experiments of Francesco
The observations of Chiara
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Manifesto was a one week workshop held at RIOT space in
Naples by designer Francesca Lanzavecchia and me. The group of
participants was diverse, as they were coming from a variety of
disciplines ranging from political science to product design, from
architecture to science of communication and fashion design. The goal of
the workshop was to identify the role of the designer in our society
and create manifestos in the form of text and artefacts, using the
standard mono-block chair as a template to manipulate. Initially participants were asked to use previous manifestos from art and design movements of the past printed on magnetic sheets. By recombining the words they had to build their own manifestos. Successively they wee given of a plastic mono-block hair each to modify and make it become their monument. The workshop
ended with an exhibition.
Here you can see the work of Francesco Di Maso and Chiara Scarpitti.
Francesco
has interpreted design as an opportunity to think beyond what we
conventionally think, turning the plastic chair into a guitar. Here you
can see his explorations.
Chiara has chosen to change the
scale of design, turning what is micro into macro. Her Cosmografia delle
Cose (Cosmography of Things) is a small installation that documents her
careful journeys and mapping around the plastic chair.
Year: 2012
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