International Design Festival in Naples

International Design Festival in Naples, the Plart Foundation and the Mother Museum

From 8 to 11 October 2014 the second edition of the International Festival of Design, between tradition, innovation and sustainable development, promoted by Plart Foundation.

The Festival is divided into three editions, the first was held in January and July 2014, the second in October 2014 and the third in March 2015 and May 2015. The project is based on various levels of cultural action and on the relationship between tradition and innovation, in a dimension attentive to environmental sustainability (green economy). The platform is coordinated by the Plart Foundation , with the active involvement of numerous partners and places, to start new narratives of the territory through shared looks and various geographical and disciplinary backgrounds.

La Plart Foundation, in organizing the International Festival of Design, has drawn inspiration from the famous Ettore Sottsass, which in the 1973 prophetically launched the project "The planet as a festival", an invitation to courage and the desire to dream. Sottsass defines the vision of a world where design helps to change habits and review the dynamics of our daily life.

One of the themes that inspired the Festival is the multitude, expression of a cultural multiplicity in a global context marked by the pervasiveness of communication and by a production system largely based on language and knowledge.

Program of the International Festival of Design

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8 October 2014 17 hours: 30
CHIARA ALESSI
Meeting dedicated to the new Italian design scene. After the season of the "Masters" and the affirmation of "Made in Italy" in the world, a new generation of designers is emerging on the international design scene. The meeting with Chiara Alessi tries to photograph the elements of continuity and discontinuity with that very happy season that now dominates all the design manuals.

9 October 2014 17 hours: 30
MARCO SAMMICHELI
The meeting, through the reconstruction of Sammicheli's intense activity, will highlight the method and the relaunches of the experience of some exhibition and editorial projects that highlight a "counter-history" of modern Italian design through the figures of Filippo Alison, Zaha Hadid, Bruno Munari, Ignazio Gardella, Gabriele De Vecchi.

10 October 2014 17 hours: 30
RENATO DE FUSCO
The meeting is dedicated to the presentation of the essay published by Quodlibet “Plart Foundation: plastic, art, crafts and design. A historical and critical framework on the many activities of Plart that we find as the main themes of the International Design Festival and more generally on the culture of design as a fundamental factor of territorial development.

At the end of the lecture cycle, the project will be presented Protein notes by Luciano D'Alessio, a conference show during which the sequence of amino acids of three proteins, silk, byssus and elastin combines a sequence of notes reworked by Le Voci Sally that enhance its musicality. Proteins also have a sound inherent in their own structure.

Mother Museum

Phenomenal interactive project (8 / 9 / 10 October 2014)

Designed and created by Giovanni Innella, designer and researcher of the University of Newcastle (Gb) and from Agata Jaworska, designer and project manager of Droog Amsterdam (NL). Phenomenal is a curatorial process that exploits the potential of the network and explores the way in which culture is produced, disseminated and consumed online, and how art / design / architecture are integrated into this system.

Dance and music performances

Produced by the CTR Theater Research Center of Venice, with the choreography of Atsushi Takenouchi, the ideation and costumes of Sonia Biacchi, and the music of Hiroko Komija that will realize Life and Death and Flowers at the Antonio Niccolini Theater of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples (11 October 014 - 11.30 am).