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Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus Academy
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…
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Feb 05, 2010 | Categories: Design, Students, conviviality | Tags: creativity, culture, design, domus academy, food, life, people, project, roberta corradin, school, workshop, world | Leave A Comment »
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#7 Chaos
To Greek philosophers the concepts of “world” and “order” were synonymous. To our contemporaries the world is more akin to chaos. Art has sought order in disorder, disorder in order, sometimes managing to find a balance between the two. By Angela Vettese, art reviewer and critic.
Albert Einstein’s contention was that God doesn’t thro...
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Feb 01, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: albert einstein, bohr, canvas, descartes, galileo, god, greek, heisenberg, helter skelter, i ching, jay gould, john cage, juan miro, lucio fontana, malevic | Leave A Comment »
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#25 Innovage
I’m a believer in the “I” words. Ideas, Intuition, Invention, Inspiration, innovation… and now… Innovage. Add vintage to innovation and you’ll be time traveling, speeding back to the future. This implosion of past, present and future is what the Aboriginal people of Australia called “the Everywhen.” It was, and is, timeless time. Th...
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Jan 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: apple, australia, barolos, ben sherman, best, bob dylan, brunellos, chanel, change, chaos, color, consumer, earth, every day, everywhen | Leave A Comment »
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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 In any case, it’s a word that has been outdated by what is now called globa...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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#4 Passion
Venini, symbol of creativity and excellence in the Italian glass-making sector, is a cosmopolitan firm, one that is consistent with traditions and innovation.
Contrasting features are skilfully blended to continue manufacturing the colourful dreams that make Venini an internationally-renowned trademark.
Fire, sand, hands - are these shapes and ...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artists, blown, coco chanel, cosmopolitan, creativity, daily, dreams, excellence, fire, glass, griffe, hands, images, innovation, italian | Leave A Comment »
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#3 Weaving relations
WE MET HAIM STEINBACK IN PARIS AT THE PALAIS DE TOKIO, DURING THE CELEBRATIONS FOR THE TENTH ILLY COLLECTION PRODUCTION ANNIVERSARY. THROUGH THIS INTERVIEW, FAMOUS ART CRITIC ANGELA VETTESE HELPS US TO BECOME MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE ARTIST AND THE MAN.
It is with slight consternation that one enters Haim Steinbach's studio. On the identical baby ...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: advertising, angela vettese, brands, campaign, career, collecting, common, communication, connecting, documenta, fashion, gallery, gent, habit, haim steinbach | Leave A Comment »
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#2 Creating Opportunities
Palais de Tokyo, a place for contemporary creativity, was founded following the will to change the traditional institutional "white cube" into a living place. Making art and life, the eternal adagio, actually meet. Making a place for contemporary creation become also a laboratory for emerging cultures, a place for resources and exchanges between ar...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: adagio, art, artists, bookshop, cinema, concert, conferences, contacts, contemporary, creativity, cube, cultures, day, debates, disciplines | Leave A Comment »
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#2 Creating Opportunities
FESTIVALETTERATURA HAS FOR YEARS BEEN THE CULTURAL CELEBRATION OF ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL WRITERS, ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS. A TOWN OF ANCIENT TRADITIONS, MANTOVA MAKES ITS STREETS AND SQUARES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC SO THAT IT CAN MEET AND EXCHANGE VIEWS AND OPINIONS, IN A PEACEFUL AND SIMPLE ATMOSPHERE.
CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BERLIN AN...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artists, atmosphere, audience, city, energy, enthusiasm, experiences, festival, festivalletteratura, good will, international, italian, lymph, mantova, mantua | Leave A Comment »
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#0 Experimentation and innovation
In Coppola's Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, "He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel."
The spirit of creative b...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: act, apocalypse now, artists, battles, buckminster fuller, challenge, colonel, commander, confidence, coppola, creative, designers, dreaming, dreamland, enrich | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: the other rooms, yoko ono, 1952, 1964, 2003, artist, biennale, birds, bodies, east, emotion, emptiness, feel, forever, grapefruit | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
When it comes to the business world, I am absolutely convinced that the kind of creativity that leads to real innovation can only develop “in house” – in other words the place where all the input from day-to-day relations with clients and products is received and digested. To paraphrase the Chinese saying ”Listen and forget, see and remembe...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: beans, brand, business, chinese, clients, coffee, company, creativity, environment, espresso, galleria illy, ideas, illy art collection, illycaffe, innovation | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
In front a cup of coffee.
For a company, the past is never just the past. It is an opportunity for growth, driving it to explore new directions. Ducati, one of the most famous motorbike manufacturers in the world, has opened a museum at its premises in Borgo Panigale (BO), to utilise its own “home made” resources. Motorbikes, engines, photog...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bikes, borgo panigale, communication, company, designs, ducati, engine, experiences, federico minoli, heritage, history, home made, innovations, italian, livio lodi | Leave A Comment »
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#26 Re-Evaluate The Error
Here then is yet another new word, “innovage”, born of the marriage of “innovation” and “vintage”.
It’s really not all that surprising that so many new words are being thrown up every day. “The times they are a-changin’”, as the song goes, and in a really big way, be it in environmental, social, economic, or cultural terms. P...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: added value, bialetti moka, brands, catchword, cultural, economic, environmental, experiential commodities, ideas, innovage, innovation, knowledge economy, luca de biase, postindustrial age, reality | Leave A Comment »
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#15 Techno-ecology
Established in South Africa seventy years ago, the Corporation currently employs 17,000 workers and operates out of countries in all five continents, turning out five million tons of paper a year. Thanks to these figures, Sappi [ www.sappi.com ] is the number one paper-milling company in the world. Its claim to leadership, though, has not blinded i...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bio fuel, book, communication, continents, corporation, deforestation, direct mail, electonic screen, energy, environment, fibres, forests, friendly, future, number one | Leave A Comment »
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#14 Refresh
One of the top of the pops - art-wise, that is - at seventy the man has no intention of sitting back, taking it easy and telling tales. No, indeed! He's still very much craving for new experiences, as frisky and fiery as any mustang colt on the plains back home.
Born in North Dakota into a family of Scandinavian extraction, James Rosenquist has ex...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: america, art, attractive, biennale, contemporary art, dakota, europe, evolution, expression, james rosenquist, life, magic illusion, meaning, picture, plato | Leave A Comment »
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#10 Nomadic knowledge
Margherita Hack is virtually a youngster out to discover the world. There’s not an article dealing with her, though, that fails to underscore her chronological age of eightytwo.
Probably it’s because the interviewer is amazed to find a person whose curiosity and wit are undimmed and indeed as redoubtable as ever.
An astrophysicist of internat...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aromalab, astrophysicist, beauty, curiosity, dimensions, discover, discovery, exception, future, i know to know, illy, infinite, knowledge, leonardo, limits | Leave A Comment »
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#0 Experimentation and innovation
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN ARTIST LIKE YOURSELF AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD, EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE HISTORY OF SIMPLE THINGS?
The pattern of simple things is the same for everyone, I believe: it means doing things, feeling active, exploring nearby and far away places, coming to learn about the things that surround you, travelling to experience p...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, atmosphere, bars, cappuccino, civilisation, comfortable, different, enjoyement, entertainment, espresso, history, human beings, juice of life, kinds, life | Leave A Comment »
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#17 Serendipity
“The world is ruled by chaos. The unforeseeable lies forever in ambush” (publisher’s note). It is only after suffering great pain and distress following on an unexpected discovery beneath the blue cover of a notebook or experiencing great fear after a hearty laugh elicited by a scene in a silent movie has faded away that the lives of the lead...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ambush, brooklyn follies, chaos, city of glass, discoveries, einaudi, endings, exploring, life, lilia ambrosi, new york trilogy, oracle night, pain, paul auster, quinn | Leave A Comment »
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.