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Last August I had a nice and somehow unexpected studio visit by David Mohney, dean of the Curry Stone Design Prize. He sent me some very general questions about me, about my work and about what the price meant to me as one of the finalists of the 2008 edition. It turned out as a [...]
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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_ [...]
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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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