Milan Design Week 09: Post Futurist Manifesto Talks: All in one place!
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During Milan Design Week 2009, Core77 correspondent Brit Leissler sought to create a “Post Futurist Manifesto” through dialogues with some of the leading thinkers in the world of design. Interviewing designers, producers, publishers, gallery owners and sociologists, the dialogues centered around the new values that designers (and the design industry) should address, and the new approaches they ought to take in order to confront the paradigm-shifts that we are currently facing. Here’s the point of departure:
100 years ago the futuristic manifesto was announced in Italy–to express the spirit of the era, break with all the conventions of the 19th century and replace them with new values. We all know that the futurism of the 20th century went terribly wrong at one point, and eventually ended in fascism. However, it is important to understand that initially it was all about liberation and freedom–aesthetically, politically and socially.
100 years later, the world is in collapse. The futurism of the 20th century has reached its end, and it is well time to create a post-futurist manifesto that seeks to define the true nature of the 21st century, establishing a new value system to replace the ruins of the old.
Check out all the dialogues below, including interviews with conceptual artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, designer Marti Guixe, publisher Sven Ehmann, and many more.
Post Futurist Manifesto Talks: Alice Wang, designer
Post Futurist Manifesto Talks: Sven Ehmann, creative director of Die Gestalten Publishers
Post Futurist Manifesto Dialogues: Emma Firmin, editor and co-founder of DAMn magazine
Post Futurist Manifesto Talks: Marti Guixe, ex-designer
Post Futurist Manifesto Snippets: 3 Main Ingredients
Post Futurist Manifesto Talks: Marco Bettiol, Researcher at the Venice International University.
Post Futurist Manifesto Talks: brh+ Architects of TURN
Post Futurist Manifesto Talks: Francesco Morace of Future Concept Lab
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