Formafantasma - Cambio

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Visiting lecture, organised as part of the design studio 'Culture in Residency, Sekirn, Wörthersee', mentored by Prof. Tina Gregoric and Jakob Travnik:
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ABOUT THE LECTURE:
Formafantasma, recently named design studio of the year at the prestigious Dezeen Awards 2020 and praised by the jury as "a highly articulate studio whose intellectual and ethical ambitions are the driving force behind their truly sophisticated and beautiful work,” discuss the research and development of Cambio, their research-focused book and exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, which unravel the global impact of the forestry industry. Cambio exposes the environmental impact of the extraction, production and distribution of wood to make products around the world and focuses on ecological concerns rather than on finished objects.
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ABOUT THE PRACTICE:
Formafantasma is a research-based design studio investigating the ecological, historical, political and social forces shaping the discipline of design today. Whether designing for a client or developing self - initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, processes and details. Formafantasma’s analytical nature translates in meticulous visual outcomes, products and strategies.
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ABOUT THE LECTURERS
Since founding the studio in 2009, Italians Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin have championed the need for value - laden advocacy merged with holistic design thinking. Their aim is to facilitate a deeper understanding of both our natural and built environments and to propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities.
Working from their studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the practice embraces a broad spectrum of typologies and methods, from product design through spatial design, strategic planning and design consultancy. Whether designing to a client's brief or developing self - initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, process and detail. As a result, Formafantasma's entire portfolio is characterised by a coherent visual language and meticulously researched outcomes.
For Formafantasma, this crossflow of knowledge and experience taken from both their commercial contracts and their more autonomous projects has benefitted and informed the respective other. It has also given them a unique perspective of the design industry, allowing them to acknowledge the legacy of industrial production as the fundamental source for the designer's expertise and agency in contemporary society while also addressing its historic contribution to environmental instability.
The studio’s prescient insight into the challenges facing design, culture, the environment and society has earned them the patronage of an array of international clients such as Lexus, F los, Fendi, M ax Mara, Hermes, Droog, Nodus Rug, J&L Lobmeyr, Cassina, Bitossi, Established and Sons, La Biennale di Venezia, Rijks Museum, Dzek, Ginori, Hem, Maison Matisse, Bulgari, Samsung, Rado, R oll and Hill, Galleria Giustini / Stagetti, La Rinascente, Gallery Libby Sellers among others.
Alongside works for clients, their projects have been presented, published and acquired in the permanent collection of international museums including New York’s M oMA and M etropolitan Museum, Art Institute Chicago, London’s V ictoria and Albert, Paris’ M usée National d'Art Moderne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, CNAP, Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou, the Amsterdam’sStedelijk Museum, the Vienna’s M AK Museum , Utrecht’sCentraal Museum, M udac Lausanne, North Carolina’s M int Museum of Craft and Design, Rome’s M useo Maxxi, Vitra Design Museum, Melbourne’s N ational Gallery of Victoria, Triennale di Milano, LACMA, Tilburg’s T extiel Museum and others.
In March 2020 Serpentine Galleries dedicated a solo exhibition to Formafantasma and their in - depth investigation into the governance of the timber industry.
From September 2020 Trimarchi and Farresin have overseen the GEO-Design department at Design Academy in Eindhoven to further explorations into the social, economic, territorial and geopolitical forces shaping design today.
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