Love Amatrice 

Stefano Boeri Architects, Italy, 2016

Amate Amatrice, installazione “Radura”, legno, spazio collettivo, Community Services, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Italia, 2016

"The only important thing about design

is how it relates to people.”

 

[Victor Papanek, designer and educator, 1927-1998]

tecnologia, emergenza, Amate Amatrice, mensa scolastica, Community Services, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Italia, 2016

In an age when they get up walls and go back to impose duties, consider this section a chance to breathe a bit of fresh air! Here you will find people which to toxic speeches prefers action. Objective: their own and others' happiness. They are the makers, a movement of artisans (digital or not), capable of transforming the life jackets and the remains of rubber boats abandoned on the shores of southern Europe in orange flags, simple and beautiful, to represent with pride The Refugee Nation… or in comfortable backpacks Bag2Work, packaged with a simple riveting by migrants and for migrants. And what about Connections, the project that focuses on getting to work Slovenians and newcomers, huddled together on the ground to build - day after day - a colorful carpet? Recycled wool, chats, but also industrious silence: to get to know each other it's not always necessary sharing the language. Others inoculate ‘art pills’ in contexts at least unexpected. To unite them it is the same objective: to extract the best from the communities in which they operate. Stefano Boeri brings the scents and peace of Friuli woods among the inhabitants of Amatrice, devastated by the earthquake. In China, Daan Roosegaarde transforms smog in high symbolic content jewelry. In doing so, it returns to Chinese smog-free areas and grow a global community of micro-financiers of the project who are proudly wearing on their fingers his synthetic diamonds. Other Dutchmen invent Goedzak, a bag for waste recycling able to stimulate altruism. In pure continuity with pop art, they use advertising methodologies for other objectives. The Swiss Manuel Herz, finally, puts down the rights on the carpet. We let you to discover for which purpose. Enjoy your visit.

in this section
- LOVE AMATRICE 
- THE SMOG FREE PROJECT
- REFUGEE SUPPORT FLAGS
- CONNECTIONS, CARPET IN PROGRESS
- BAG2WORK
- GOEDZAK, PUSHING ALTRUISM
- RIGHTS ON CARPET