Beppe Finessi: technology and ecology in design (video)

by Marco Minuz | Dec 28, 2010 in Techno-Ecology, Video | Leave A Comment

The following video is in Italian, so here is a partial transcript in English.

There’s a group of international planners or designers who are working on a new kind of design and industrial production that wishes to arrive at project results that go beyond the simple chair, cup, or tray, which are perfectly useful in our lives but can possibly be substituted by a new type of product. And certainly in these models, technology and the ecological aspect is essential.

There are people working precisely on this. There is a French designer, Leneur, who is working on improving the quality of interior air. I think it’s a matter of knowledge and sensibility [to make these things] rather than doing things in a gratuitous way. There are plenty of exhibits in which ecology has been really just a pretext; instead it is a real problem and needs to be properly addressed.

There is a studio of young people who made a vase out of bees wax – that is, the bees themselves are set up in such a way as to make it over x number of weeks. An object like this, do we consider it emblematic of a new technology, or of new ecology? Maybe both! It’s nature, stronger than us, but it’s also been used in the service of design just recently.

Interview by Marco Minuz. Transcription by Alexandra Korey.