ABOUT_Conceptual Devices_Triangular Design Manifesto.
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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_ Design has not scale. It could be small and have great impact.
05_ Design is not an innocent practice. Designers are wicked.
06_ Design should engage people and interact with them.
07_ Design is an interdisciplinary applied science.
08_ Design produces visual consciousness.
09_ Design is a triangular manifesto.
10_ Design makes you smile.
11_ This is the top.
12_ Enjoy!
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Conceptual Devices
develops design projects
using cognitive tools and practices from architecture, visual culture
and design with the aim to engage social practices and behaviours in everyday life. Conceptualdevices operates through a shift of symbolic values due to the social
utility and social responsibility of arts and design in contemporary society. Conceptual Devices is currently a network based structure of collaborations set up on specific projects.
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Antonio Scarponi is the founder of Conceptual Devices. He studied architecture at Cooper Union, NY and holds a B. A. in architecture from Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). He is currently a PhD candidate in Urban Design at IUAV, Venice. From 2006 he teaches "Communicative Spaces" at KTH, Stockholm, and from 2008 at NABA, Milan. He has lectured at schools of architecture and design throughout Europe and the U.S and his work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally. He currently splits his time between Venice and Zurich.
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collaborations:
Art for the World_Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg
Gaspare Caliri (semiologist)
Peppe Clemente (graphic designer)
Antonio De Luca - Nethical (programmer)
Barbara Galassi (architect)
Kmaps - Emanuele Bompan | Riccardo Pravettoni (geographers)
IKEA
Italcementi
Marco Lampugnani (architect)
Stefano Massa (architect)
Federico Pedrini (architect)
Andrea Zausa (architect)
