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Low Cost Design Exhibition is a traveling exhibition with more than 500 works collected at the 4 corners of the world, and an archive of 8000 images, about the change of use of objects and territory through the conscious action of many people.The examples shown tell us an amazing ability to adapt to the experiences of an innovative use of local resources, to resolve necesità the newspaper with the instinctive ability of a child and the calculated planning of an engineer.
Thousands of people who sleep little the night, engineers, farmers, designers, workers, architects, artisans, pensioners and housewives invent new objects or modify the use of many existing.And 'natural attitude, able to change things everyday as to influence an entire production system.
The project is produced by Dusty Environmental Health Services in collaboration with Silvana Editorial Cultural Park and Farm
Low Cost Design is an open project and is a constantly work-in-progress: feedback, contributions, objects and suggestions on the Website www.lowcostdesign.org. The exhibited objects are collected in catalogs Low Cost Design, volumes I and II, where there are more than eight hundred color illustrations, edited by Silvana Editoriale in 2010 and 2011, both in Italian and in English.
Low Cost Design is a touring art exhibition with more than five hundred pieces and structures. These objects are related to the change in the use of manufactures or parts of the territory, through the aware actions of people, from all over the world.
Pieces and structures, born to solve a specific task, are transformed into other problem solvers: the merit belongs to all of us, spontaneously creative artists. We are directed by technological and cultural tools, by intuitive faculty, by abstraction – capability, chance and error.
The exposed examples explain the extraordinary adaptability to experiences and the innovative use of local resources. They are used to solve everyday needs, through the instinct, as a child, and the calculated planning, as an engineer.
The exhibition Low Cost Design is a visual dictionary that shows a constant relation between “the poetic capacity” and “the technological capacity”. Works are created by people who don’t sleep long during night. They invent new objects or modify, in a natural way, the use of the already existing great amount. These new pieces escape the corporate planning rules, disclosing the interdisciplinary heritage that connects design culture to social disciplines, history, economy and politics. Everyday, other pieces are ready to be interpreted, recomposed and adapted to new human behaviors. They are created by a constant flow of spontaneous creativity, that applies logic and absolute selections.
Thomas Alva Edison wrote, “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” This simple statement recognizes a primary law of human creativity, namely the great potential hidden in each of us. Many of the inventions that have transformed our daily lives seem to be the outcome of purposeful research, passions or hobbies, but the long history of human creativity finds its ancestral motivation in the need to solve a problem. This general law is an instinctive force that invents, discovers, manipulates and recreates in every age and culture. Who knows what the first reaction of humanity was, 35,000 years before the birth of Christ, when it was first observed that attempts to start a fire had produced a regular hole? After some nervousness, it seems to have led to the invention of the bow drill. Over time the ability to associate individual inventions, hybridize them and create new uses has produced extraordinary insights. So in about 3500 B.C., the combination of the potter's wheel with a sledge produced the first revolution in human transportation, the wheeled cart. Some inventors have even become celebrities, real stars of antiquity. One of the best known, Archimedes of Syracuse, said, “Give me a place to stand and I will move the whole world.” Archimedes screw, an ingenious system for raising water, suggest that it was difficult to find a place to stand, as Archimedes was not joking. In the Middle Ages, ancient inventions were improved and new ones saw the light. Apparently humble objects like scissors, the sickle or nail spread and completely transformed everyday life. The first pen (a goose quill, of course) was invented, being mentioned by Isidore of Seville in 580, lenses were designed by the “father of optics”, the Arab Alhazen, and we are indebted to Oriental culture for Arabic-Indian numerals. After the appearance of the “hipposandal” as the horseshoe was called, the stirrup was used for the first time in Europe at the Battle of Poitiers in 732, radically changing the techniques of war. Yet many of these inventors, some even endowed with real genius, have never enjoyed the fame of Archimedes. Regarded as a humble mechanicus, the creative derived limited financial benefits from his or her inventions. One of the greatest, Johannes Gutenberg, having invented and perfected the printing press with movable type, the machine that has transformed the whole history of culture, was left nearly blind in his old age to live on an allowance of corn and wine granted by a charitable prince. [...]download concept
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Daniele Pario Perra is a relational artist, researcher and designer engaged in exhibitions, research projects and teaching. His work ranges across different disciplines: art, design, sociology, anthropology, architecture and geopolitics. For some years now he has been exploring spontaneous creativity, cultural trends and patterns of urban development in a constant relationship between material culture and symbolic heritage. In 2001 he started the Low-cost Design database, which contains over 7000 photographs of the transformations of objects and public spaces in Europe and around the Mediterranean, published in two volumes by Silvana Editoriale. Low-cost Design is also a travelling exhibition with more 100 objects worldwide collected starting from the same year. Daniele Pario Perra studied the performances and rituals of street trading in Sicily in the "Economic Borders" project. He investigated spontaneous communication in various European cities with the "Fresco Removals" format, teaching people, in real urban actions, how to store notable examples of wall writing and graffiti before their cancellation. His first monograph, Politics Poiesis, was published in 2005: it contains a long list of ideas, stimuli and projects devoted to contemporary art in urban contexts.
daniela alchirafi, giulia arena, lucia babina, andrea bartoli, elena bellistracci, luciano bosi, patrizia brusarosco,
carmelo chiaramonte, dario cimorelli, beppe finessi, pierfrancesco frillici, emiliano gandolfi, liana gagliardi,
lavinia gazzè, christina kreps, loredana longo, walter magnano, leo micali, francesco morace, roberta moro, antonio nicolosi,
aldo olivero, vanni perra, rossella pezzino, francesco pironti, renzo di renzo, pierluigi sacco, luca villa, alexander vollebregt.
thanks: giorgio appierto, salvo bellofiore, andrea bianchi, letizia bozzolini,
daniela cannavò, elena capobianco, mattia capobianco, alessandro coco, roberto de luca,
federico demartini, liana gagliardi, gaia gessi, virna gioiellieri, sylvain hartenberg, henrik jan haarink,
esther kokmeijer, dieuwertje komen, stefano ingenito, massimiliano ioppolo, vincenzo lamendola,
daria laurentini, luigi lipani, make my day ,alessia marchi, marrai a fura, green me, tano melfi,
valeria milioni, luigi negro, giancarlo norese, nuovo e utile, piero orlandi, silvia perra, eva pfannes,
silvana piras, vito plantamura, silvia platania, giovanni romeo, enzo rovella, karl ingar roys, francesco rovella,
florinda saieva, ilde sciarrata, fabio scuderi, claudio sgarbi, johan lager, salvatore squillaci, fortuna todisco,
massimo villardita, roberta waldbaum, federico zanfi, erica zanetti, federica zanetti.
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Daniele Pario Perra has taught at the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza University in Rome, at the Delft University of Technology, at the Milan Polytechnic and at the Denver Univeristy in Colorado. His workshops – Fantasy Saves the Planning, Art Shakes the Politics, Anarchetiquette/ Fresco Urban Removals, Design on the Cheap and Politics Poiesis – have many editions in major European cities. Between 2000 and 2010 he exhibited works, devised urban actions and coordinated projects between Rome, Milan, Turin, Sarajevo, Barcelona, Chicago, Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, Bern, Paris, Marseille, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Ljubljana, Denver, Belgrade, Budapest and London.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Cost_Design
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniele_Pario_Perra