How can design deal with conflicts and dissonances?

For example, the dilemmas posed by controversial issues, peace and war, the quiet coexistence and the restless activisms, the consensus-seeking and the thought-provoking stances?


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Courage is BREAKING THE BARRIERS

Design is Courage

TEAM

Asia Bernardo

Fabiana Cosentino

Clara Maria Fabbri

Luca Rebonato

CONTEXT

MSc Interior and Spatial Design

Landscape and Interior - Spatial Design 2

2023/2024

PROFESSORS

Michele De Lucchi

Francesca Balena Arista

Marco De Santi

Francesco Clerici

Giada Boromello

Nicolò Chierichetti

Alessia Soressi

Politecnico di Milano, School of Design, Milan, Italy

Courage is BREAKING THE BARRIERS investigates barriers as sources of ambiguous attraction, tangling between the fear of pushing beyond them and the unrestrained desire of going further. In front of physical or mental barriers, the unknown and the desire to understand what goes beyond the immediate understanding raises a deep emotional response, often ambivalent. When barriers seem insurmountable, it might be just a small detail the one that allows you to go beyond. Such a small but game changing detail takes the shape of a refined play of joints combined with the lightness of the painted rice paper without any interference and with no aids, compose the main structure of the installation, leveraging one of the most archaic construction systems: the wedge. An act of courage is needed to unveil what’s beyond the barrier. One needs to bow, entering in a reserved and gathered dimension where a measured structure helps face adversity and four paper-thin suspended barriers protect and guide the visitor towards a bright monolith, accompanied by reasoned yet imprecise lines.

Catalogue

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