NLD_03 Summer School

23/28 September 2019

This year’s edition will host 3 design workshops on Stop Motion animation, Coding and Generative graphic design and Portable exhibit design.

Tribute to ‘Inventario’ (Inventory) 12th anniversary

Conceived and directed by Beppe Finessi, ‘Inventario’ magazine is an indispensable tool for thinking about design beyond its disciplinary’s borders, and getting some orientation in a world where ‘everything is design’.

A multiscreen video-installation to present the magic of Sardinian contemporary craft

The multi-screen installation by the Alghero’s AnimazioneDesign lab brings an original interpretation of Sardinia’s artistic contemporary craft to the public of Milan’s Design Week.

Past Future, culture and artifacts of Sardinia’s crafts

Despite being mainly thought as a summer holiday paradise, Sardinia encompasses a diversified cultural landscape in which past and future overlap. Within this framework, craftmanship provides the foundation for a contemporary reflection about design.

Examples: Massimiliano Adami

Waste and swarf: turning leftovers into key design elements, in the conceptual practice of a design approach combining experimentation with auto-production.

Pierluigi Ghianda: workshop as a symposium

Milan’s Triennale sets up a new exhibit in Monza to pay homage to Pierluigi Ghianda, a great woodworker and a key figure in the scene of Italian design.

Designing the Corporate Identity

Guidelines for the graphic design for the Sardinian Region at the Expo, an equation between pixel and loom.

Four Short Films

As part of the project we experimented at Expo 2015, the task of designing a family of short films has been a great opportunity to explore the potential of the contemporary language of the moving image.

A Mediterranean Crafts Archive (Archivio dei Saperi Artigianali)

The result of an accurate fieldwork carried out in Sardinia, Morocco and Egypt, Mediterranean Crafts Archive (Archivio dei Saperi Artigianali) is an on-line resource on craftsmanship knowledge in the Mediterranean.

Picturing Genius Loci

Two projects in Morocco and Palestine on local identities exploring visual design as a key to spark debate between planners, designers and local communities.

Copper in Isili, Sardinia

Isili is a small Sardinian town home of a strong and ancient craft tradition, particularly in copperware. Today the small Marate museum keeps this tradition alive and offers to us ideas for the future.

Beyond Adornment. Exploring concrete as a material for jewelry and accessories

To what extent can concrete, whose accustomed proximity to the human body is limited by a certain distance, get closer to us?