Design

Healthy principles and Design

craft and industry
Healthy principles and Design it has been modified: 2012-11-27 di Damiano Meneghetti

Now in its sixth edition this year the International Design Biennial of Liège has profoundly renewed both in name and in graphics, thanks to Giovanna Massoni, artistic director of the event.

Objective of Reciprocity was to combine the concepts of "reciprocity" and "city" by joining the ethical values ​​of design: respect, exchange and generosity.

From 5 to 28 October it was possible to find main exhibitions, satellite halls, conferences and debates scattered around the town of Liège. As Giovanna Massoni introduces in the official flyer: “… these events, and meeting points, have been created all around the city. Each location was chosen for its historical and cultural importance of the Liège heritage ”.

Reciprocity would not be simple and crude exposure, wanted to show first of all the city of Liege, opening the doors to the public in places that are often open, and inside these exhibitions created by inserting design objects by collecting a large number of local actors, transnational (coming from the Euregio Meuse-Rhine) and International (Italy and Japan).

craft and industry

Among the various exhibitions, the most original was undoubtedly "Craft & Industries“; in this there were a series of design objects dating back to the last twenty years and in each, in ascending order, there was a sign indicating the percentage of how much the object had been conceived by hand / industrially (the last object of the was an Apple MacBook Air with 99,8% industrial production).

D Joker card room

Another really attractive small exhibition was "D'Joker". Precisely for this reason, several local artists (Mertens Billie, Jean-Claude Loubières, Patrick Reuvis, Coralie Miessen) were asked to create works on the concept of playing cards. This theme was chosen because it touches the wider public, without cultural, social and generational borders. The game of cards, as an object and as a practice, brings art and design to touch a daily and entertainment dimension. This space offered the opportunity to socialize, disconnect from everyday life, relax by playing a game with friends, and enjoying a good Belgian beer.

Other exhibitions have been held in places as diverse as former churches, shops and bars in the center and the periphery, universities, ancient villas, and museums. The whole city has embraced this every two years; This is the strength of this event. You could feel that despite the economic crisis the Belgian population has embraced the philosophy of respect, sharing and generosity, ideologies that have been able to derive from the design and that, hopefully, will be able to use to improve the future.

Eugenia Morpungo Repair It Yourself

The winner of Reciprocity 2012 was Eugenia Morpurgo with his project "Repair It Yourself". This consists of a pair of assemblable shoes, which come with a repair kit; in fact, once the upper has been torn (if the problem is not too big) they can be repaired without having to buy a new pair, with a needle and rolls of wool and cotton.

 

Memorabilia

Enrico Bosa Megaphone

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