The crisis is known, sharpens the wits. In addition to the products on the market, there are many possibilities to make a good design article ourselves.
RicCAA 2013 in Padua International Biennial of Art and Design - 5th edition
A shower of inscriptions. Really great, very much felt and participated this year by the adhesion of artists and designers to RicCAA, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art and Design and environmental sustainability policies by the Paduan artist Marisa Merlin.
Biennial sponsored by the Veneto Region, the Municipality of Padua, the Dams degree course, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Padua, Veneto Ville Regional Institute, Padua Confindustria, ARPAV (Regional Agency for the prevention and environmental protection of Veneto) and created by the Arteria Association.
RiartEco 2013 IN FLORENCE AND GENOA
From Florence, Genoa, recognition to the rejection of 30 artists from all over Italy, in RiartEco 2013With works made from waste and scrap materials. "the goal - explains the president of the organizing association, the POP point of presence Marco Pasqualin - is to sensitize citizens through art to make less waste, by consuming better and less packaging is possible. The artists demonstrate a great love, a great respect for the earth simply by putting rejection in the foreground, giving them a role of excellence and enormous resource.
Foodscapes, food container created with food waste, Fuorisalone 2013
Foodscape is a project of WHOMADE.IT in collaboration with Michela MILANI, it's a shell created with food waste, has the shape of a seed and is suitable for food containers buckets. Designed to fit in the logic of natural cycles, once exhausted its use, can be dissolved in water and used to fertilize the soil.
Porcelain tiles made with recycled glass?
Who could imagine that in the mixture of porcelain stoneware tiles could finish a line of glass coming from the recycling of old and dilapidated monitor CRT televisions?
This seems to be the future in the field of ceramics for the building.