The Last Week

Last week we left some spare time for the designer for meeting the companies once again before going back home.

So, Andrea A. went to Milano to meet Federico Chiorino of Zani del Frà and a couple of time to the Chorino Tannery in Biella. Henny went twice to Cappellificio Cervo. On Thursday Natasa to Gabbianelli and Alejandro to SAW (actually he is coming back in July for developing more directly with them), Brit to Aurora and Tomas to Serralunga on Friday, 23th while Federico and Andrea P. were going to the Tap Companies: Webert and Neve Rubinetterie, both close to Novara.

In this week we also met more experts/designers:
Tuesday, 20th

Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo from Lungomare Gallery, started in 2003 as an experimental platform, Lugomare is a space where different disciplines can work together: from design, architecture, urban planning, art and theory to cultural production and sociopolitical issues. The aim is to question the relation between design and art and its physical, social and political environment.

Wednesday, 21th

Malagigi Edoardo, internationally renowned designer of sustainable furniture and objects – with specific reference to Montessori nursery schools and Professor of Design at Fine Arts Academy in Florence (Italy). Recentely he has been involved in the state-run overhaul of nursery school furniture design in South Korea. Professor Malagigi also manages the international outreach programme of the Fine Arts Academy of Florence, and is Artistic Director of the children in need charity Bambini In Emergenza.

Finally the workshop ended up on Saturday May, 24th with the opening of Art at the Center Turning Point Architecture.