From the monthly archives:
00_ Design should not be based on formal principles – but always on an idea of society. 01_ Designed forms represent possible social orders and a lot of their contradictions. 02_ Design is everything. Anything could be designed. Everyone is a designer. 03_ Design allows social innovations. Often it is not made by designers. 04_ [...]
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Antonio Scarponi is the founder of Conceptual Devices. He studied architecture at Cooper Union, NY and holds a M. A. and PhD in Urban Design from IUAV, Venice. From 2006 to 2008 he taught “Communicative Spaces” and from 2009 “Reflective Design” at KTH, Stockholm; from 2009 he also teaches at NABA, Milan. He has lectured [...]
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Population. We’ve never been so many on this planet. We’ve never been so connected. Our design attitude challenges a growing world inhabited by more than six billion people who are now able to talk to each other. Conceptual Devices is a think tank that considers design as a social engagement. Its projects operate through a shift of symbolic [...]
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