(Participating Graduates) : (Not For Sale.)
(Participating Graduates) : (Not For Sale.)
(Participating Graduates) : (Not For Sale.)
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On behalf of Design Academy Eindhoven, a very warm welcome to (Participating graduates)
(Not for sale.), the place to freely explore and revalue the meaning
of design — and what can and cannot be bought or sold — behind Adams Ponnis, Alice Bleton, Billie van
our complex, continuously evolving culture, amidst a typical Milanese
urban setting. Katwijk, Donghwan Kam, Irene Stracuz-
After DAE’s high-profile #TVclerici during the 2017 Salone del
Mobile, this year Design Academy Eindhoven is back in Milan with zi, Johan Viladrich, Lennart and Lauren
a unique spectacle that questions in vivo the various activities,
implications and alternative definitions of design. What’s more, this Leerdam, Marie Caye and Arvid Jense,
bold mise en scene is fully embedded in the daily life on Milan’s Via
Pietro Crespi. Martina Huynh, Nadine Botha, Razma
(Value for money) Hassani, and Théophile Blandet
With a pharmacy, hardware store, newspaper kiosk, church, food
market, Internet café and osteria, Via Crespi represents a slice of
everyday Italian life, a stone’s throw from the Stazione Centrale di
Milano. Here, day in, day out, people come to buy their newspaper, (Exhibition location)
grab an espresso, shop for food, trim their beards.
At first sight, we observe a thriving system of exchange. A micro- Headquarters at Osteria Crespi,
society designed around transactions of goods, services, and
currency. A co-existence of inhabitants and visitors from various Via Pietro Crespi,14, 20127 Milan
ages, cultures and professions, traveling up and down the street
within a grid of preconceived rules and set values. A collision with other venues along Via Crespi,
between the magnificence of the marketplace’s rationalist
architecture and its jarringly generic interior. Via Varanini, and Piazza Morbegno
(Priceless design) (see map overleaf)
Yet against this burgeoning background, the street’s inhabitants
have developed a deep-rooted culture of ingenuity, creativity and
idiosyncrasy. Underneath the tangible market dynamics, each venue
boasts its own curiosities: the Internet café doubles as adviser to (Dates and opening times)
asylum seekers; the bar is the first gay bar in the area; the market
hosts raves at night; and the hardware store displays a collection of Tuesday April 17th
not-for-sale baseball caps.
Yes, design provides us with the building blocks of society — – Saturday April 21st 10.00–19.00
commodities such as the plate of pasta, the newspaper, the
screwdriver, the coffee pot. It is how these things come together, Sunday April 22nd 10.00–18.00
though, that makes a place what it is.
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