Isola Design Group and Viafarini present the exhibition Under Design Lebanon, a collective of designers, traditional and contemporary artisans and craft support associations, curated by Ghassan Salameh. The aim is to offer a reconnaissance of the initiatives still active in the exceptional social, political and economic crisis that Lebanon is going through.
Under Design Lebanon goes beyond the aspect of design as a commodity isolated from local and global context and responsibilities, and focuses on what is really important, namely the small businesses specialising in design, crafts and trade that
- remain the main sources of income for many families;
- preserve a specific class of independent workers operating within their own micro-economy;
- safeguard the collective cultural memory of a space otherwise destined to be destroyed;
- they allow deeper and more meaningful connections with the ecosystem and environment;
- they present fields of innovation in techniques, resource recycling and functional products adapted to current realities.
The group exhibition revolves around a central installation consisting of a structural system that links all the different parts together, showing the crucial strategies of adaptation to the most difficult environmental circumstances in the delicate process of creation.
Isola Design Group and Viafarini present the exhibition Under Design Lebanon, a collective of designers, traditional and contemporary artisans and craft support associations, curated by Ghassan Salameh. The aim is to offer a reconnaissance of the initiatives still active in the exceptional social, political and economic crisis that Lebanon is going through.
Under Design Lebanon goes beyond the aspect of design as a commodity isolated from local and global context and responsibilities, and focuses on what is really important, namely the small businesses specialising in design, crafts and trade that
- remain the main sources of income for many families;
- preserve a specific class of independent workers operating within their own micro-economy;
- safeguard the collective cultural memory of a space otherwise destined to be destroyed;
- they allow deeper and more meaningful connections with the ecosystem and environment;
- they present fields of innovation in techniques, resource recycling and functional products adapted to current realities.
The group exhibition revolves around a central installation consisting of a structural system that links all the different parts together, showing the crucial strategies of adaptation to the most difficult environmental circumstances in the delicate process of creation.
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Gabriele Correddu - Will Shoot People for Food™
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Anwyn Howarth
(C) Isola - photos by Gabriele Correddu - Will Shoot People for Food™
(C) Isola - photos by Gabriele Correddu - Will Shoot People for Food™
(C) Isola - photos by Gabriele Correddu - Will Shoot People for Food™
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