“To work on space as if it were an object, with the aim of trying to produce situations, reactions and relations.” *
The famous architect and designer Carlo Scarpa used to suggest to his students to look for solutions to their design problems, by observing a flower, or a plant. But what if, instead of just observing a single plant, we investigated an entire forest?
A forest may be seen as a large complex organism, comprised of many different elements peacefully coexisting and sustaining one another.
In a forest, nothing is never thrown away. Even in death, organisms are recycled and turned into new life.
A forest renews and modifies itself over time and in response to environmental stimuli: this is what we call evolution.
In a forest you have the sensation of something alive observing you.
In a forest you have the chance to watch and investigate everything.
In a forest you may experience primitive feelings that have been there since the beginning of the world.
In a forest you have the chance of watching and investigating everything, of letting yourself being driven by a fluxus of millenary stimuli.
The key lays in continuous changes of perspective; the choice of permanent mutability and dynamism as necessary attitude to open your mind to always new opportunities.
This is the philosophy laying behind this MA Degree. Our new design atelier is a forest.
* Silvana Annicchiarico, “Marco Ferreri designingthoughts”, Electa 2010