Today’s world builders are rooted in the avant-garde arts of a century ago: between Dadaism, Bauhaus and Russian constructivism artists, architects and designers at that time revolutionized the way of thinking about the arts and their role in society, art that has applications in the everyday, able to change the ways of living the world and improving people’s lives. Marcel Duchamp broke with the past by inventing the readymade – perhaps the first example of dysfunctional design – while Walter Gropius built a school able to form a new artist figure (designer) and a different culture of creative work at the service of society. Today, with a distance of a century, our world is a world where their visionary utopias have proven to be right. Our cities, our environment, our bodies have changed thanks to a project culture that can integrate the two souls of our time: the ancient one, the custodian of the cultural heritage of humanity, and the most daring, technological, futuristic of contemporaneity. Builders of Tomorrow explores the profitable collaborations between design and art at the threshold of the third millennium, oriented to the production of objects and systems as an ethical and aesthetic experience of reality. The exchange of ideas, visions, practices, projects is becoming an ever-expansive modus operandi, which opens the boundaries of both arts to bounds, contaminations, and mutual influences. In the face of the crisis of our time, today we can start from here: from a new way of understanding design and art in their relationship with craftsmanship, economy, industry and hand made continuity with the culture of the past and the perspective of a technological and humanistic future.
I costruttori del mondo di oggi affondano le radici nelle avanguardie artistiche di un secolo fa: tra dadaismo, bauhaus e costruttivismo russo gli artisti, gli architetti e i progettisti di allora rivoluzionarono il modo di pensare le arti e il loro ruolo nella società, ideando un arte che avesse applicazioni nel quotidiano, in grado di cambiare i modi di abitare il mondo e migliorare la vita della gente. Marcel Duchamp ruppe con il passato inventando il readymade - forse il primo esempio di design disfunzionale - mentre walter gropius costruì una scuola capace di formare una nuova figura d'artista (il designer) e una diversa cultura del lavoro creativo al servizio della società. Oggi, a distanza di un secolo, il nostro è un mondo dove le loro utopie visionarie hanno dimostrato di avere ragione. Le nostre città, il nostro ambiente, i nostri corpi sono cambiati grazie ad una cultura del progetto in grado d'integrare le due anime del nostro tempo: quella antica, depositaria dei patrimoni culturali dell'umanità, e quella più ardita, tecnologica, futuribile della contemporaneità. “Builders of tomorrow” esplora le collaborazioni proficue tra design e arte alle soglie del terzo millennio, orientato alla produzione di oggetti e sistemi come esperienza etica ed estetica della realtà. Lo scambio d'idee, visioni, pratiche, progetti sta diventando un modus operandi sempre più esteso, che apre i confini di entrambe le arti a sconfinamenti, contaminazioni, influenze reciproche. Di fronte alle crisi del nostro tempo, oggi si può ripartire da qui: da un nuovo modo di intendere il design e l'arte anche nei loro rapporti con l'artigianato, l'economia, l'industria e l'hand made, in continuità con la cultura del passato e nell'ottica di un futuro tanto tecnologico quanto umanistico. Catalogo della mostra tenuta presso il MIC (Faenza, 28 settembre-25 ottobre 2017). Presentazioni di Maria Letizia Melina, Vincenzo De Luca, Massimo Isola, Claudia Casali.
Jennifer Monroe, Daniel Yeatman (2017). Builders of Tomorrow - Imagining the future between design and art. Ediz. italiana e inglese. Roma : Gangemi Editore.
Builders of Tomorrow - Imagining the future between design and art. Ediz. italiana e inglese
Jennifer Monroe
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
;Daniel YeatmanWriting – Original Draft Preparation
2017
Abstract
Today’s world builders are rooted in the avant-garde arts of a century ago: between Dadaism, Bauhaus and Russian constructivism artists, architects and designers at that time revolutionized the way of thinking about the arts and their role in society, art that has applications in the everyday, able to change the ways of living the world and improving people’s lives. Marcel Duchamp broke with the past by inventing the readymade – perhaps the first example of dysfunctional design – while Walter Gropius built a school able to form a new artist figure (designer) and a different culture of creative work at the service of society. Today, with a distance of a century, our world is a world where their visionary utopias have proven to be right. Our cities, our environment, our bodies have changed thanks to a project culture that can integrate the two souls of our time: the ancient one, the custodian of the cultural heritage of humanity, and the most daring, technological, futuristic of contemporaneity. Builders of Tomorrow explores the profitable collaborations between design and art at the threshold of the third millennium, oriented to the production of objects and systems as an ethical and aesthetic experience of reality. The exchange of ideas, visions, practices, projects is becoming an ever-expansive modus operandi, which opens the boundaries of both arts to bounds, contaminations, and mutual influences. In the face of the crisis of our time, today we can start from here: from a new way of understanding design and art in their relationship with craftsmanship, economy, industry and hand made continuity with the culture of the past and the perspective of a technological and humanistic future.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


