When it is no longer necessary to question things and how they work, when all the answers are effortlessly available online, and when technology does it for us, perhaps we need to stop and... think. Creating devices that force the user to find a meaning to the object, to decide its function and purpose seems a step backwards compared to the frantic search for ready-made solutions to everyday needs. Instead, this is precisely the project that George P. Johnson Japan with Yutaka presents in the Superstudio spaces thanks to the Onefabrica System (an innovative technology for constructing shapes from aluminum tubes and fabrics with which it is possible to create flexible, light, reusable and sustainable furniture and fittings). To the visitor he seems to say “be a thinker”, you decide what to do with this product,you choose how and what it should be.
www.gpj.co.jp - www.yutaka-inc.jp
“Tu chiamale se vuoi emozioni...” sang Lucio Battisti 52 years ago. A famous and timeless tune that became the title of a Talk, promoted by Matrix4Design and conducted by journalist Laura Ragazzola. We will discuss architecture and its ability to give us emotions with some specialists who have been able to discover and highlight the empathic power of building, giving us a new awareness of the spaces we live and inhabit.
www.matrix4design.com
The appointment is on 17 April at 6 pm at FLA FlavioLucchiniArt Museum - Atelier.
What happens when an entire metropolis becomes the stage for an event involving creativity at 360 degrees? Hard to imagine for those of us who are used to living ‘in sectors’. Yet in Tokyo, fashion, art and design conquer the city for a week in a blossoming of ideas that coincides with the blossoming of cherry trees.