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pCalifornia’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts–you’ll recognize the name from it being Apple’s unofficial product launching pad–is opening ITechnoCRAFT/I, its first-ever design exhibition, this Saturday. Organized by YBCA exec director Kenneth Foster and curated by Yves Behar, it’s no regular design exhibit:/p

blockquote”We weren’t interested in objects on pedestals,” Béhar says. “I was more interested in opening up a discussion about user participation, about how people are intervening more and more in what they consume.” That interactivity is evident in the categories of customization used to create the 200-plus objects in the show: crowdsourcing, platforms, blueprints, hacks and incompletes./blockquote

pFrom Ikeahacks to re-purposed Eames classics to a chair by Droog that you bang into shape (literally, see photo above) yourself, ITechnoCRAFT/I aims to back up a typically bold statement by Behar: “We are really moving from an era of mass consumption to one of mass individualism.”/p

pCheck out IMetropolis Mag’s/I Yves Behar QA on the event A HREF=”http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20100706/qhar-on-diy-design-crowdsourcing-and-the-future-of-craft” here./A/p

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