Design Sustainable
“Green Design” Paths, the Festival’s round-table discussion, precedes the inauguration of the D/SIGN exhibition in Alba, dedicated to sustainable and inclusive design.
Sustainable Design takes center stage at the “Federico Eusebio“ Civic Museum of Natural Sciences in Alba from Friday, September 9, the day of the exhibition’s inauguration, until Sunday, October 2, 2022.
The exhibition will be divided into three distinct thematic areas to give visitors a vision of current sustainable design, starting with “pieces” that have made the history of “design”.
The first thematic area that welcomes visitors is called “Special Guest Designer ‘900” dedicated to the designers who have made the history of design: from Le Corbusier to Giò Ponti, from Egon Von Furstenberg to Alvar Aalto, from Gaetano Pesce to Luca Pannoli, from Franco Albini and Alessandro Mendini to Gino Levi Montalcini, from Giuseppe Pagano to Marco Pocci and Claudio Dondoli to Archirivolto, and other greats of 20th century design up to modern artistic expressions such as the TurinLuficero Illuminazione, Cassina and Poltrona Frau.
Le Corbusier’s Chaise Longue on display in Alba at the “Federico Eusebio” Civic Museum in the Maddalena architectural complex.
A vase by Gaetano Pesce on display in Alba for D/SIGN – the design exhibition of the Festival of Visual Arts Barolo Fashion Show, 7th edition 2022.
Designer Gio Ponti’s “superleggera” in a period advertising photo.
The second Thematic Area is the more technical one, called “Industrial Responses to the Sustainable Economy.” It is the “avant-garde heart” of the exhibition, featuring furnishing fabrics from the circular economy, polymers for the design industry also from the recycled economy, mattresses made exclusively from natural materials and without synthetic glues, and design objects made from recycled materials. They will exhibit their Green Oro Lavico solutions, JV Italian Design, ExtraFlex, TPA Alternative Textiles, Powerpol and Reevèr.
For the Lava Gold Plate, designer Andrea Brancinforti uses exclusively natural materials such as volcanic stone from Etna and natural anchoring systems.
The third and final Thematic Area is called “Artists of Nature.” This section of the exhibition hosts masterpieces by emerging designers who, using exclusively natural materials, create design objects.
In this section of the exhibition the following will exhibit their works: Lorenzo Franceschinis, Massimiliano Mattone, Matteo Tampone, Marzia Boaglio and Andrea Branciforti for Lava Gold as well as Alfredo Sconocchia, who creates upcycling valve amplifiers by “reusing” parts of old military radios.
The works will be “immersed” in the Natural Sciences Museum’s exhibition space, interacting with the permanent exhibition in a truly evocative way.
The curator of the exhibition on sustainable and inclusive design is Romano Di Giusto, an expert in design innovation and part of the Sign Festival organization.
Work of the Artist / Designer Matteo Tampone.
Designed by Marzia Boaglio, the designer uses exclusively natural materials such as wood.
