Low cost design is a book that is about the design that springs from daily life. The best project is not necessarily the one that is patented, or created by the most prestigious design company in the world. Pario Perra presents the results of a research project carried out across Northern Europe and Southern Mediterranean... where he documents thousands of examples of spontaneous creativity, which strikes a constant balance between 'poetic skill' and 'technological skill'. These objects and contraptions present a very interesting picture from a sociological, urbanistic and ethnographic standpoint. It shows us how things can be re-made into other things and still have more meaning than what their original purpose was meant for. Maybe this idea is something that I can apply within my work, taking old objects and giving them a new meaning.
3.10.2011
LOW COST DESIGN - DANIELE PARIO PERRA
Low cost design is a book that is about the design that springs from daily life. The best project is not necessarily the one that is patented, or created by the most prestigious design company in the world. Pario Perra presents the results of a research project carried out across Northern Europe and Southern Mediterranean... where he documents thousands of examples of spontaneous creativity, which strikes a constant balance between 'poetic skill' and 'technological skill'. These objects and contraptions present a very interesting picture from a sociological, urbanistic and ethnographic standpoint. It shows us how things can be re-made into other things and still have more meaning than what their original purpose was meant for. Maybe this idea is something that I can apply within my work, taking old objects and giving them a new meaning.