Active since 1999, Raumlaborberlin's projects have been seen in Italy in 2010, first at the Venice Biennale with KitchenMonument and Generator, then at Artissima with House of Contamination. Now in Milan for the events organised by Esterni with a largely Italian team headed by Francesco Apuzzo and including Antonia Araldi, Lucia Pasquali and Thomas Peterman, Raumlaborberlin presents new investigations into the divide between design and use.

With Crossing Path Super Bench, a temporary installation at the Bussa overpass, Raumlabor experiments with the possibility of reappropriating public space by highlighting how people create their own paths through the city. Once again, temporary conditions are seen as mechanisms that work on the imagination, generating unplanned places of aggregation. The Super Bench is an exercise in design rhetoric that also presents a possible spatial solution; a lesson for Italy that design potential can be found in even the simplest of concepts.

12-17 April 2011
24h/24h Public Space
Cavalcavia Bussa