Milan - Salone del Mobile: Ventura Lambrate
Ventura Lambrate - Design Academy Eindhoven - Eat Shit exhibition. “Eat Shit” was the first exhibition of the Design
Academy Eindhoven’s new department Food Non Food for the Salone del Mobile. The
entire department (18 students and teachers) transferred to Milan for the
event, which delved into the politics of how, where and why we eat. In a part exhibition, in part a public
laboratory format. The event was co-curated by
the new department head Marije Vogelzang along with Jan Konings. In it we shared
projects concerning contemporary food culture while exploring the necessary
relationship between education and exhibition.
Design Academy
Eindhoven - Eat Shit exhibition. Arne Hendriks - Pigeon Shit Tower – Retro-fitting a
Guano factory into the National Monument on Dam Square, Amsterdam. Pigeon pop
used to be a highly valued fertilizer for food crops. The pigeon Towers of Isfahan in Iran were
industry-sized shit factories, housing thousands of pigeons and located among
the agricultural fields of the valley.
As the world is facing depleting stocks of readily available artificial
fertilizers perhaps it is time to re-evaluate the city’s pigeon’s bad reputation
and appreciate them for their ability to create high quality shit. The tower is made from digested old
newspapers.
Ventura Lambrate – We Make
Carpets. We Make Carpets does not make
carpets. At least, not the kind of carpet you can walk on. The carpets are not
meant to be touched either. But it sometimes happens anyway. From a distance it may look like a carpet but
you have to come close to see it is actually made of clothes pegs. Or some
other everyday product.
Above. Peg Carpet - was
commissioned by the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, The Netherlands.
We Make Carpets – Bob
Waardenburg and Marcia Nolte, who together with Stijn van der Vleuten are the
We Make Carpets designers. The collective shares the fascination for everyday
archetypical products. ‘We love form. We love simplicity. None of us three
works in an expressionistic style. Maybe that is what unites us.”
We Make Carpets – Pasta
Carpet was made at Marcia's Studio in Amsterdam. In the hands of the
collective, objects of use take on a new value. Pasta is no longer pasta. ‘It
is our material,’ they emphasis.
Ventura Lambrate – Piet Bergman – What
About the Peanuts – restaurant. What about the Peanuts!!! This year’s crew, with creative
chef Piet Bergman in charge, served French fries again! Besides that, lots of
vitamins will be served: fresh juice, soups, salads… handcrafted Bitterballs
and special local beers.
info@plumbum.nl, +31 647035990
Ventura Lambrate – Piet Bergman – What About
the Peanuts
Seen at Ventura Lambrate
architects Paolo Bornello and Marcello Ziliani
Ventura Lambrate – Aarhus School of
Architecture - Engaging Through
Architecture - and Making a Difference. The Danish, Aarhus School of
Architecture exhibited Engaging Through
Architecture - and Making a Difference. Twelve curated architectural projects
and experimental building elements in 1:1 highlight the school’s theme.
Above.
Studio Context – Cocoon II. The
exhibited projects include Cocoon II, a reconstruction of a digitally generated
pavilion built using craftsmanship methods, which students from the Aarhus
School of Architecture recently designed and built in India in cooperation with
Indian architecture schools and local craftsmen.
Aarhus School of
Architecture - Engaging Through
Architecture - and Making a Difference - curator Karen Kjærgaard
Aarhus
School of Architecture - Engaging
Through Architecture - and Making a Difference. Anne Mette, Thisgaard Lund and Signe Bjerringholm
Ross – Re-thinking Re-Sources. “ Testing reused materials is a way to engage
new and different environments into architecture. It creates new possibilities and is a way to
explore a different architectural focus and expression.”
Aarhus
School of Architecture - Engaging
Through Architecture - and Making a Difference. Troels Thorbjornson and Kasper Baarup
– Play the Strings. The project
Play The Strings fills the lower floor with light and sound. “Play The Strings
engages through architecture, when new spatial potentials occur as a direct
result of the installation’s interaction with its contextual conditions and
humans as well as occurring input.”
Ventura Lambrate – Plus Design Gallery -
Fire Walk with Me. Plus Design Gallery presented Fire Walk with Me, an
exhibition of three international designers; Ilias Lefas, Aart Van
Asseldonk and Dirk Vander
Kooij, reflecting on the idea of the focolare (domestic heath), a symbol for
home and the fire burning within ourselves.
Above. Flare Stack - Aart Van
Asseldonk
Plus Design Gallery - Fire Walk with Me -
Fresnel Lights by Dirk Vander Kooij
Plus Design Gallery’s Andrea Caputo
Ventura Lambrate – Giopato and
Coombes Editions – I Flauti. The handblown Murano glass LED lamps “I Flauti”,
designed by the Anglo-italian design team Giopato and Coombes, combines
tradition and technology in search for a new equilibrium between innovation and
its context. This contrast creates an object almost lost in time, frozen
between the past and the future.
Christopher Coombes and Cristina Giopato
“On the way to Murano by boat,
docking at the Fondamenta dei Vetrai and beginning to wander from one alleyway
to another, in search of the right “soffio”, or breath, that would work for the
project that I had in my bag. The colors of the houses, the colors of the sky
on the first day of sunshine after so much rain, the warmth of the people, at
first shy, and then very generous; it reminds me of growing up, the memories of
ancient and modern glass that have accompanied me since childhood. Then finding
the right people, and the exchange of ideas between designer and master glass
blower.” Cristiana Giopato.
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