15/05/2025, 06.30 PM
Strange Design: dall’oggetto al comportamento
Emanuele Quinz
15/05/2025, 06.30 PM
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Beyond forms and functions, design influences behavior, transforming not only objects but also the experience of everyday life from the inside out. But what happens when designers, artists, or fashion stylists create strange, unusual, or enigmatic forms for objects - guided not by a formal, aesthetic, or functional imperative, nor by an ideal of beauty or comfort, but rather by the intention to provoke strange, unusual, and enigmatic behaviors? How, then, can we define this everyday life altered by design, this state of confusion between design, art, and life?
The talk is part of the public program Feral Design. Perspectives and Poetics of the Unruly by Noemi Biasetton.
Free entry until full capacity is reached.
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Professor of History and Theory of Contemporary Art at Université Paris 8, and independent curator. Associate researcher at EnsadLab, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the Cluster Matter of Activity at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Among his publications: The Invisible Circle. Environments, Systems, Devices (Mimesis 2014), Strange Design (with J. Dautrey, éditions it 2014, Les presses du réel 2024), Behavioral Objects (with S. Bianchini, Sternberg 2016), Le comportement des choses (Les presses du réel 2022), and Against the Object. Conversazioni sul design (Quodlibet 2020), awarded the Compasso d'Oro ADI 2022. He has edited critical editions of texts by Victor Papanek and Tomas Maldonado.
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