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La Claque

La Claque is a collective of four young design from Sicily – Alessandro Arena, Maura Messina, Fabrizia Parisi e Salvatore Portella – that deals involved in with design, graphics and communication with a focus in offering suggesting contemporary style, making thus promoter promoting a taste of a trend dictated by the analysis of different realities… Continua a leggere La Claque

d/storto design project

d/storto is a group of four Sicilian designers: Gaetano Crivello, Vincenzo di Stefano, Daniele Grande e Paolo Zaami. The mission is to become an active subject promoting design through the introduction of innovative processes into local craftsmanships. d/storto works on two parallel project lines: one answers to external requests (e.g. local authorities, cultural organizations, private… Continua a leggere d/storto design project

Manuela Bentivegna. Autisme

Manuela was born in Palermo 26 years ago. Once adult she went to Rome where she worked and, at the same time, got her bachelor degree in Industrial Design at La Sapienza University of Rome. This experience improved her capacity to interact with people of different backgrounf, and power of her ideas. Between Rome and… Continua a leggere Manuela Bentivegna. Autisme

Laura Bagnera. Auxiliary mimesis

Laura Bagnera (1987) was born and raised in Palermo. After high school, she decides to attend a course in Industrial Design in Palermo. At 22 years old she moved to Milan to attend a course for a Master’s degree in industrial design at the Politecnico while cultivating an interest in illustration. In 2012 she finishes her studies… Continua a leggere Laura Bagnera. Auxiliary mimesis

Vittorio Venezia. un/coordinated

Vittorio Venezia is a product designer. He graduated in Architecture at the University of Palermo in 2005. He has devoted himself to the design products since 2004, after winning the Bombay Sapphire Martini Collection Award. In 2006, his final university paper won the Lucky Strike Junior Award. In 2007 he moved to Milan and started… Continua a leggere Vittorio Venezia. un/coordinated

Young Sicilian design

[catlist name=young-sicilian-design numberposts=-1] This section presents an overview of the youngest generation of Sicilian designers. These designers, who share the same origin and the same interest in the world, work all around Italy and Europe, dealing with social, interaction, visual and fashion design. It’s a generation experiencing a phenomenon occurring for years, that is to… Continua a leggere Young Sicilian design

The current art scene in Sicily

How would you describe the creative identity of Sicilian art? Flexible, open, independent, free of local and provincial restrictions. Through its artists, Sicily nowadays confirms its role of primary importance in the world of contemporary art, thanks to an altogether new ability compared to the past to promote itself and gain a reputation, to frequently migrate to the centre of the action, to take up new challenges and arouse curiosity and interest. Artistic currents and forms of expression mingle and continuously blend, displaying an inquisitive spirit and designer orientation, often shared as part of a creative teamwork approach. From Palermo to Scicli, many young artists have devised no-profit platforms to exchange feedback, productive cells open to both local and international art, often acting as springboards for fruitful endeavours on the territory and innovative outreaches to the wider audience. So everything is OK, then? No, obviously not. The art system is still quite fragile. The result is a Sicily full of life but yet unable to manifest itself, promote art and grow.L’identità creativa dell’arte siciliana? Flessibile, aperta, autonoma, slegata da connotazioni localistiche e provinciali. La Sicilia, con i suoi artisti, conferma oggi un ruolo di primo piano nel mondo dell’arte contemporanea, grazie alla capacità tutta nuova, rispetto al passato, di farsi conoscere e apprezzare, di spostarsi frequentemente verso i centri attivi nel sistema, di mettersi in gioco e smuovere curiosità e interesse. Correnti e linguaggi si intrecciano e si fondono di continuo, mostrando curiosità e volontà progettuale, spesso condivise in una modalità creativa di gruppo. Da Palermo a Scicli, molti giovani artisti hanno creato spazi di confronto no-profit, cellule produttive aperte tanto alla produzione locale quanto internazionale, facendosi spesso volani di feconde azioni sul territorio e innovative aperture al pubblico. Tutto Bene? Ovviamente no. Il sistema dell’arte è ancora estremamente fragile. Il risultato è una Sicilia vivacissima ma incapace di mostrarsi, promuovere e crescere.

Design & Production in Italy from 'Miracolo Economico’ to Present

The history of Italian design is characterised by a variety of changes gradually occurring within the relationship design-production. These changes are inherently connected to the structural conditions of the Italian industrial fabric, to the technological development, to the economical changes and to the changing conditions of the design demand and offer both in Italy and all over the world. The present chronicle considers Milan and its surroundings as the centre of a series of events that made the Italian design reach the point that it is still maintaining at a worldly level. Moreover, it takes into account the productive sector of furniture and furnishing accessories, which mainly identify Italian design. As any facts revision, also this one has privileged some aspects and excluded some others, in order to reach its own significance. La storia del design italiano è caratterizzata da una serie di cambiamenti del rapporto design-produzione. Questi cambiamenti sono intrinsecamente legati alle condizioni strutturali del tessuto industriale italiano, agli avanzamenti tecnologici, all’andamento dell’economia e alle mutate condizioni di domanda e offerta di design in Italia e nel mondo. L’articolo prende in considerazione il settore produttivo del mobile e dei complementi d’arredo, con cui il design italiano è a tutt’oggi maggiormente identificato. Assume Milano e i suoi dintorni come il centro di una serie di vicende che hanno condotto il design italiano a essere quello che ancora oggi rappresenta a livello mondiale. Come ogni rilettura dei fatti, per giungere ad avere una sua evidenza, anche questa ha privilegiato alcuni aspetti e ne ha scartati tanti altri.

The Mediterranean of Women. Evolutions and new Opportunities for Design in the Network Society

Abstract This article examines and documents the emergent phenomena, wich in the countries of southern Mediterranean coast manifest a grater awareness by women of their role in society. Those phenomena can be considered as the effects of convergent actions like investment plicies in education programa, promotion of artistic practices and the widespread use of social… Continua a leggere The Mediterranean of Women. Evolutions and new Opportunities for Design in the Network Society