low cost design
This Book is founded on a principle upheld by leading designers: the best project is not necessarily the one that is patented, that is created by architectural firms or at the computer by leading companies, but rather the one that springs from the simplicity of daily life. Starting from this concept, Daniele Pario Perra presents here the results of a vast research project carried out between Northern Europe and the Southern Mediterranean, in the course of which he documented thousands of examples of spontaneous creativity, creating a visual dictionary that strikes a constant balance between poetic skill and technological skill. The ideas presented are classified according to different levels of research and design categories, and stimulate reflection on the recovery and re-use ofmaterials. This is a book that involves us by taking a far-reaching, free-ranging, eclectic and radical look at our daily life.
Contents…
LOW-COST DESIGN: conversation between Daniele Pario Perra and Emiliano Gandolfi
DESIGN IS EVERYWHERE: or the necessity is always the mother of invention by Beppe Finessi
LOW-COST DESIGN: a catalogue of objects and behaviours that define the post-surrealist scenario of the future by Francesco Morace
MODIFICATION: as social sculture by Pier Luigi Sacco
OBJECTS – categories: elementary, developed, optimized, elaborate, complete. ACTIONS categories: private territorial planning, creative commerce, interactions between public and private, personal solutions to the shortcomings of public services, social and commercial communications, personal security.
elementary object
developed object
optimized object
elaborate object
complete object
Low Cost Design (20 x 28 cm, 216 pages, 320 colour illustrations, paperback with flaps, italian/english edition, EAN 97888-3661665-7)
Who is Daniele Pario Perra…
Daniele Pario Perra is a relational artist, researcher and designer engaged in exhibitions, research projects and teaching. His work ranges across different disciplines: art, design, sociology, anthropology, architecture and geopolitics. For some years now he has been exploring spontaneous creativity, cultural trends and patterns of urban development in a constant relationship between material culture and symbolic heritage. In 2001 he started the Low-cost Design database, which contains over 7000 photographs of the transformations of objects and public spaces in Europe and around the Mediterranean. He studied the performances and rituals of street trading in Sicily in the “Economic Borders” project. He investigated spontaneous communication in various European cities with the “Fresco Removals” format, teaching people, in real urban actions, how to store notable examples of wall writing and graffiti before their cancellation. His first monograph, Politics Poiesis, was published in 2005: it contains a long list of ideas, stimuli and projects devoted to contemporary art in urban contexts.
Daniele Pario Perra has taught at the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza University in Rome, at the Delft University of Technology and at the Milan Polytechnic. His workshops - Fantasy Saves the Planning, Art Shakes the Politics, Fresco Urban Removals, Design on the Cheap and Politics Poiesis – have many editions in major European cities. Between 2000 and 2010 he exhibited works, devised urban actions and coordinated projects between Rome, Milan, Turin, Sarajevo, Barcelona, Chicago, Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, Bern, Paris, Marseille, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Budapest and London.
The Low Cost Design website here.
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