Exploring and expanding the boundaries of creativity
Design is a continuous process of study and research into materials, technologies, resources, scenarios, experiences, and social and economic interactions.
In addition to studio projects, we are regularly invited to deliver lectures, seminars and workshops at design and management academies worldwide.
We organise development programmes, capacity building trainings and creative paths with production districts, public organisations and NGOs that need to overcome moments of crisis, imagine new directions, innovate by repositioning themselves and renewing their tools and/or their dialectics.
Food waste as a new resource
Foodscape is our research project that re-evaluates food waste as a useful resource for a new raw material. Launched at the 2013 Milan Design Week, Foodscape aims to hypothesise a new circular production paradigm.
Conceived to be part of the logic of natural cycles, once its use is over, the Foodscape container shell, produced from food waste (peanut shells / carata husks), can be dissolved in water and used to fertilise the soil from which other fruits will possibly grow.
Client: Padiglione Italia
Partners: Michela Milani, Lambrate-Ventura District
Objects declare themselves on the surface
What if, in a world dominated by images, reality was only a surface? No longer solid materials but archetypes of empty forms where objects lose consistency and images acquire substance. SUPERFACE is provocatively the denial of content and the affirmation of a type of design that is openly superficial, whose dysfunctionality is a suggestion for rethinking a new culture for the project and an authentic sense for the object.
Client: Padiglione Italia
Partners: Lambrate-Ventura District, Associazione Azimut
Teaching at the Creative Academy by the Richemont Group
Teaching at the Course in Brand Management and curating special projects and exhibitions during the Milan Design Week, organized in collaboration with the companies of the Richmond group, for the students of the Creative Academy in Milan.
Client: Creative Academy
Partners: Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte, Montblanc, Van Clief & Arpels
Cooperation and development program in Tajikistan
Cooperation and development project aimed at creating a new territorial brand to encourage local entrepreneurship, enhance the heritage of traditional craftsmanship and, to a large extent, the very identity of the countries of Central Asia.
Client: Cesvi
Partners: European Union, Central Asia Invest, AltraQualità, NASM
Teaching at the IUAV University of Venice
Teaching at the Intensive Workshops at the beginning of the Courses in Design at the IUAV University of Venice.
Client: IUAV Venice
Partners: Celenit, Michele Perissinotto
