According to Brown, Workshop with Giulio Iacchetti
ACCORDING TO DUSK is the title of the workshop that the designer Giulio Iacchetti held at the Academy by kraken Isaac 28 to May 31, 2012. The workshop is one of the first activities of the Department of Design Kraken Isaac It is intended as a way to experiment with forms of cooperation and exchange between the training and the world of design professionals. Kraken Isaac in fact encourages exploration of the Sicilian territory and field experiences and reservoir of images to process.
ACCORDING TO DUSK -title song a tribute to Franco Battiato-born within the educational activities of the master in product design OUT [OF THE] DOOR, which opens to the exterior contribution of Giulio Iacchetti to explore the possibilities of volcanic material and experiment with its features in the manufacture of objects.
The workshop will end with a presentation open to the public of the work products, which will take part Giulio Iacchetti and designers who have taken part in the workshop.
The workshop is addressed to students of architecture, design and artistic disciplines, as well as professionals, architects and designers.
Giulio Iacchetti deals with industrial design since 1992. Designer activity alternates between teaching at several universities and design schools, in Italy and abroad. Distinctive characteristics of his make are finding and defining new object types, such as the Dormouse, multipurpose biodegradable so staid, in 2001, won, with Matteo Ragni, the Golden Compass and become part of the permanent design collection at the MoMA in New York. With the design and coordination of the collective project Coop Eureka, created for Coop Italy, brought the design in large-scale retail trade and characterized the new generation of Italian design. In 2009 this project earned him the award of prizes for innovation awarded by the President of the Italian Republic. The designer adds the artistic direction
for major brands such as iB rubinetterie, ceramica Globo and il Coccio design edition. For Corraini Edizioni has edited the book Italianità, a collection of related objects, symbols, the smells, flavours and sounds which contribute to forming the conscience of the Italian people. In May 2009 the Triennale di Milano hosted a solo exhibition entitled ' Giulio Iacchetti. Disobedient objects ".
In parallel he continued his personal research toward new themes of project as one of the cross from which the exhibition is held at the Crucial Museo Diocesano di Milano in the spring of 2011, both at the Basilica of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome in March 2012.
REGISTRATION FEE
Students: 250 €
Pros: 300 €
Subscription requests must be received by May 21, 2012, including cv and portfolio in pdf format (max 5 folders) via e-mail to: workshop@abadir.net
SCHOLARSHIPS
Three scholarships to the total coverage of the cost of participation will be awarded to the best portfolio submitted within the deadline fixed for registration.
INFO
Kraken Isaac
Via Giacomo Leopardi 8
S. A. Li Battiati-Catania
Tel + Fax 095 725 23 10
www.abadir.net
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