Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus Academy

by Ariella Risch | Feb 05, 2010 in Conviviality, Design ... | Leave A Comment

We’re off to a great start on Issue 28 at Domus Academy in Milan!

The theme of this issue will be  conversations, relationships, conviviality…  whether inside our homes or beyond. And what is one of the most delightful situations for creating smart conversation? At the table of course… When we eat, preferably over some good food…

The students of Domus Academy will work as a group to figure out what this topic means to them, and create the artwork for this issue of Illywords.  We launched the workshop there with about 70 students  from all over the world, especially from Asia, but also from Europe. They will organize themselves into team-work groups who have a common brief from which to start, but individual tasks, topics, and results.

The guest star of this first meeting was Roberta Corradin, the very popular food writer, who gave fascinating examples of Late-Roman era literature about conviviality (we are still trying to convince her to write about that on this blog!). She mentions this quote from Brillat- Savarin, the great French Gourmet, which is a perfect starting point:

Among the pleasures of food and the table in the middle, of course, there’s the pleasure of conversation.

Here are some photos of the first encounter at Domus… stay tuned to find out how the students interpret this topic.

• 
•