Retrobottega: Open Call

Sfuso Collective together with Raminga presents the second edition edition of Retrobottega Open Design Call.

Aim of Retrobottega is to investigate possible responses in order to survive contemporaneity; given certainties, as livable spaces, wealth, easy access to goods and services,  or the right to a satisfying sociality are nowadays constricted by the insatiable intrusiveness of necessity. In such a context the designer should go back to the immediacy of necessary things, things that do not need any justification, things that are made for life.

Through Retrobottega, Sfuso wants to develop the survival issue as a spatial, economical and social fact. We're looking for survival devices and practices that face the problem in an innovative way: from systems for food and energy production to mobility devices, from spatial construction practices to tools and object for living, up to new instruments for the everyday life. A singular synergy between design culture, practical know-how, modern resources offered by new technologies, together with traditional manufacturing, a DIY attitude and the ability to work as wasteless as  possible must be the key factor of these researches.

Selected producers will have a reserved space for showing their production and researches during Milan Design Week 2014 inside the spaces offered by Ferramenta Pietro Viganò and set up for the occasion by NOWAA Architects.

The submission deadline is March, 23th 2014. Results will be published within March, 24th 2014.

from April 8 until April 13 2014
Retrobottega
Ferramenta Pietro Vigano
Via Montevideo 8, Milano