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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Swarovski, 14,000 employees, revenue 1.67 billion euro, but also 800 events organised every year in Italy alone. Not only an economic organism, but also a conveyor of culture.
How does it feel today to be defined as a multinational company? Proud or flattered?
Uneasy. In any case, it’s a word that has been outdated by what is now called globa...
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Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: awareness, beauty, company, cost, cost of life, countries, dna, economic, effort, emotions, environmental, ethic, events, exhibitions, expectations | Leave A Comment »
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#3 Weaving relations
Milan, the world capital of fashion and design. This link between fashion and design seems to merge the two disciplines, blending their environments and dynamics. There is one person, however, who wants to keep them well separated, critiquing his own circle of designers: Enzo Mari. First and foremost an artist, and then a designer at international ...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, commercial, commodity, cycle, daily, design, designers, enzo mari, failure, fashion, habits, imagination, life, marketing, milan | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
TREVISO, A FORMER FOUNDRY, REFURBISHED.
We are standing on a loft from which we can see a group of young people at work and only a few metres away, others are playing pool, having a break from the project.
E-TREE, ALSO CALLED THE "NOSLEEPING COMPANY" IS KNOWN MORE FOR ITS EXPERIMENTS WITH WORKING ENVIRONMENT DESIGNING THAN FOR ITS PRODUCTS. WHA...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: adoptions, always on, bar, codes of conduct, company, creativity, design, e tree, ethical, experiment, firms, foundry, gratification, gym, habits | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Sometimes I am asked to help other people to improve their listening skills. My profession exposes me to the risk of thinking of listening mainly as a subjective ability, something that can be trained, partly linked to personal predisposition.
But when I actually listen, and when listening becomes a tool necessary for a job in which you approach...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: approach, circumstances, claudio ondoli, cohesion, colourful, companion, company, fascinating, geography, history, intention, job, knowledge, landscapes, life | Leave A Comment »
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#8 Place, not place
The first issue of Domus was published by Gio Ponti in 1928. Since then it has followed and borne witness to the evolution in the field of architecture and design. Today, Stefano Boeri, an Italian, has taken over the magazine’s editorship from the Londoner, Deyan Sudjic. The change was more than enough to start pundits claiming that the Milan-bas...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: amusements, attractions, copies, domus, duplication, environment, home, imitation, interact, living, nonplace, objects, office, original, outlets | Leave A Comment »
