We highlight here the participation of activist Vandana Shiva at the Terra Madre 2008 International Forum on Future of Food and Agriculture on the 23-27 October 2008 in Turin, Italy. In 2002 Vendana Shiva was awarded with the Premio Mazzotti for Literature – section Ecology; in that occasion she also met Mr. Gabriele Centazzo, chief […]
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The first edition of BOOM SP DESIGN –International Architecture, Design and Art Forum will bring booming speakers to Brazil and promote a cool atmosphere to the city. Organized by RSPROMO it will be held simultaneously to the opening of Karim Rashid’s Exhibition at Instituto Tomie Ohtake – October 24th 2008 to January 04th 2009. KARIM […]
Read moreValcucine @ the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Valcucine’s Artematica Vitrum glass kitchen is currently on display at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in Cellophane House, one of five on-site installations in the exhibition: Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling—on view July 20th through October 20th: www.momahomedelivery.org. Part 1 of the exhibit takes us through the history of prefabricated housing with pictures, […]
Read moreThe birth of a platform dedicated to the environmental sustainability in design
Chicago, June 8th 2008 witnesses the opening of Elogico ‘eco-logical thinking… spaces and products for the next generation’. Elogico is a ‘container’ combining events, panel discussions and exhibitions relating to the interface between design and ecological sustainability and responsibility In concurrence with NeoCon, one of the world’s leading contract furniture trade fairs, Elogico presents participants […]
Read moreValcucine @ Fuorisalone in Zona Tortona
Valcucine’s exhibition route has been divided into autonomous yet interdependent spaces which, as well as presenting new products, have the aim of defining the company’s identity in a non-exhaustive way. Visitors will have the opportunity of realising that it is possible to reconcile aesthetics and ethics; compromise between innovation and tradition; trust in technology and […]
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