Design is Nourishing

Exhibitions

With this exhibition Open Design Italia keeps on promoting a highly narrative type of small series design, which values taste, tradition and creativity through new approaches. The works selected express the best of the Italian Taste for Manufacturing Knowhow and testify how talented creatives are capable of revisiting materials and symbols of the Made in Italy culture with a contemporary view.
The exhibition is an important display for young contest-winning creatives from Emilia-Romagna and other regions of Italy and an opportunity to showcase a type of entrepreneurship that develops around the designer, who steers the production chain and searches for the sustainability of the manufacturing cycle and for new ways of co-operation between the world of design and traditional enterprises.

Exhibiting designers:
Amaaro!, Arago design, Atelier di Cucina, Atelier Macramè, Antonietta Casini, CTRLZAK Art&Design Studio, Defacts+Henry&Co, Edizioni Precarie, Elastico Studio, Massimo Marcelli, Meraky, Giuseppe Sardone, Tipo 00 Design, The Good Machinery, Urge.

Among the selected designers, the renowned CTRLZAK Art & Design Studio, who participated in the first edition of Open Design Italia and is now an important actor on the international scene -not only in the field of design- with several collaborations with renowned brands.
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from 16/10/2017 to 23/11/2017
Since 2010, Open Design Italia is an independent platform for the incubation and promotion of creativity. It organizes an international contest-based event that aims at networking professionals, creatives, and companies. Since its creation, Open Design Italia has earned great public attention and involved about 400 designers, 10% of them from abroad; it organized more than 500 b2b meetings with national and international companies in the fields of furniture, fashion and accessories, consultants, and sectorial professionals; it organized about 20 conferences -attended by academics from various disciplines, designers, and representatives from companies- to discuss the entrepreneurial and project potential of self-produced, small series design. The efforts to catalyze professional relationships have resulted in success stories: several designers started collaborations with companies, which in some cases included the designers’ projects into their product catalogue, widening their portfolio.
"Design is Nourishing" is the second chapter of an internationalization programme for the promotion of the Made in Italy and independent creativity that Open Design Italia is developing together with national and international entities and institutions.
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The exhibition is organized and supported by Regione Emilia-Romagna Culture Department, the Italian Cultural Institute of Vienna, and Confindustria Emilia.
It is part of the program of the Second edition of the Italian Cuisine in the World Week (November 20-26).
Open Design Italia
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