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Driven by curiosity - Workshop with Francisco Gomez Paz

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Abadir Design host as a visiting professor designer Francisco Gomez Paz which held a worskhop from 20 22 to May by Title "Driven by curiosity" inaugurated by a lecture open to the public on Monday 20 May at 10.00 at the Zo cultural center which will be attended by Giovanni Pasca Raymondi, scientific consultant of the Design Department of Abadir, a department that aims to train designers capable of designing our contemporaneity characterized by globalization and technology: designers who are able to develop ideas to give shape and meaning to the continuous innovations that mark our time.



Driven by curiosity is the title of the workshop. "Curiosity as a fundamental tool for understanding the world but especially as a trigger of the creative process. The impulse to know belongs to all mankind, but the designer has a strong intuitive as prelude the possibility of discovery. In this workshop we will use the curiosity to discover the lava rock - its characteristics combined with its potential - and in this process we will try to do the project. We will experience this material in relation to a changing world, conscious of being part of a closed loop to keep in balance, nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed. " (Francisco Gomez Paz)

After the positive results of 2012 with Giulio Iacchetti and lagranja Barcelona design once again Abadir brings Sicily and training closer to international design. Francisco Gomez Paz - young designer of Argentine origin with projects for Artemide, Driade, Danese, Lensvelt, Luceplan, Olivetti and Sector, as well as winner of awards such as the Good Design Award 2010, Red Dot Award 2010 and the Compasso d'oro in 2011 - will be the testimony of the project and will share his experience with the public and the students of the island. Once again Abadir opens up to experimentation, exchange and the relationship between internationally renowned designers and the Sicilian territory.


In the days prior to the workshop, namely the 18 May at 18.00 inaugurated, at the showroom Helme house of Catania, the exposure of projects designed by Francisco Gomez Paz for Luceplan, Driade and Danish.

This year, the initiative is supported by ADI Sicily (Association for Industrial Design) which brings together the 1956 designers, companies, researchers, teachers, critics, journalists around the topics of design, and that the delegation embarked on Sicily territory an enhancement process to all those organizations who work around the culture of the project.

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Saturday 18 May 18.00 hours at home Helme
Inauguration product display Luceplan, Driade and Danish
designed by Francisco Gomez Paz
Viale XX Settembre, 36 - Catania

Opening conference open to the public:

Monday May 20 2013 10.00 hours
At Zo - Contemporary Culture Center
Piazzale Asia, 6 - Catania

The workshop will take place in the day-20 21-22 May at:
Abadir Academy of Fine Arts
Via Giacomo Leopardi 8
S. Agata Li Battiati - Catania

More information about the workshop on www.abadir.net

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