北宁公园 / BeiNing Park

B座 / Pavilion B
2楼/2 Floor

策展人 / Curator
Giovanni Aurino
Massimiliano Campi
Paolo Colantuoni
Bruno Discepolo
Alessandra Fasanaro

设计通过社会的变化和新的生活方式, 渗透入我们的日常生活和我们本身。设计总在应对突发场景,尝试新鲜材料, 打破固有模式,创设新颖视角,进而改变我们的日常生活习惯。点亮我们生活环境的产品所发生的外观和 技术革新向我们展现了改变、发展和新的行为方式, 同时, 也重塑了我们的周边环境, 创造出前所未见的视觉宇宙。这些产品解读自身的岁月, 改变自己, 从而改变世界的形象。

倘若设计总在应对人类生活的新场景, 那么设计的历史也就是人类本身的历史。设计的发展史, 也就是人类集体的发展史。

5+5展示了十件设计品。第一部分的五件红极一时的展品向我们讲述了审美、技术和外观的变迁。从Eileen Gray的E1027可调节桌(革命性地使用管钢)到Castiglioni兄 弟的“猫”灯(采用茧形,创造出全新造型) , 都曾是设计史上的弄潮儿。

那么现在, 设计正在朝哪个方向、向什么样的前景进发呢? 展览的第二个部分中, 五件标志性展品帮助我们了解设计最新的发展趋势, 再次着眼于当下变革的场景和全新的未来。

在当今全球市场愈发生机勃勃和文化多元的大背景下, 设计也在重新思考自身的定位。今时今日, 设计是多重秩序联结的纽带, 它让政治、经济和技术进行更加开放的对话。 在继续创造产品和服务的基础上,今天 的设计更是成为社会变革和善举的催化剂它让我们更加理解我们所生活的时 代的复杂性,它让我们更加负责地应对环 境和人类双方的需求。 消费量少而质高,享受奢侈而不放纵。新的消费观开始流行,这种消费观同时关注商品的使用寿命和维护保养。 不同于曾经的摇摆不定, 人们开始重新将时间和经验视为生活财富。技术也将更加人性化;可感知、可触碰的便携设备将把新技术带入千万家。

可持续发展、生物制造、有机物、“软技术” 和对情绪的关注,是设计在未来的主流发 展趋势。设计更加关注新型生产系统、社会 活力,甚至超越了关注产品本身。 环境最终被视为一种宝贵资源, 而不是被掠夺的对象。通过释放大自然的力量, 生物制造成为一种前所未有的材料制造手段正如Gavin Munro所作的Full Grown椅子或者Mogu所产的菌丝衍生生物质材料。产品靠的不再是生产, 而是培育。

过去和现在, 尤其是未来从生物工程到创造再循环, 从游牧迁徙到新手工, 这些产品所开启的新场景也成为人们解码现实的新途径。

Design is intertwined with our lives as we progress through social changes and new lifestyles. Design confronts unexpected scenarios, tries new materials, renovates common aesthetics, invents and adopts original perspectives that renew our daily habits. The evolution of the objects that populate our environment speak of the changes, the transformations and the new behaviors in our society. These transformations, both aesthetic and technological, have over time revolutionized the space around us and created brand new visual universes. Objects are highly significant of their own time, and their evolution changes the appearance of the world.

If design evolves to confront the new scenarios of modern life, then the history of design and its transformations is also part of our collective history as humans.

“5 + 5” displays ten design pieces. In the first part of the exhibition, ve iconic objects tell us about
the ethical, technological and aesthetic revolution they brought about in the history of design, from
the adjustable table E1027 by Eileen Gray, with its innovative use of tubular steel, to the Gatto lamp by Castiglioni brothers, using cocoon materials to create shapes never seen before.

What about today? What new direction is design taking and which horizons is it now facing? In the second part of the exhibition, ve emblematic objects accompany us in understanding the most recent evolutionary trends of design, underlining once again its connection with social changes.

The actual scenario sees an increasingly dynamic and multicultural global market, which led design to rethink its role. Today, design is the meeting point among several disciplines, merging politics, economy and technology and trying to foster an open dialogue among them.

Rather than producing goods and services, design acts today as a catalyst for changes in society and for virtuous behaviors: it questions us to understand the complexity of the time we live in and to adopt more conscious attitudes towards environmental and human needs. Buy less and of quality, enjoy luxury without excess. A new idea of consumption, also attentive to the durability and maintenance of goods, slowly makes its way into our life. Time, experience, less convulsive rhythms begin to be recognized as a value for life. Technology itself is progressively humanized and will soon enter our homes with less invasive devices, also bringing an enjoyable sensory and tactile dimension.

Sustainability, bio-fabrication, organicism, soft technology, inclusivity, are among the most recent and important design trends. Henceforth, design focuses on new production systems and on the social dynamics they set in motion rather than on the mere objects themselves. Most importantly, environment is finally seen asa resource, not as something to be plundered. By unlocking the power of nature, bio-fabrication represents a fundamentally new approach to constructing materials. Full Grown chairs by Gavin Munro or mycelium-produced biomaterials by Mogu are just examples of products that will no longer be manufactured, but naturally grown.

Past and future visions: bioengineering, creative recycling, nomad, new handicraft. The new scenarios disclosed by the exhibited objects are also a way of decoding our present.