The installation 'Human Mandala' is a celebration of the connections among human beings. The exhibition presents a series of real human bodies arranged in a circular mandala formation, with each individual naked and vulnerable, but connected to the others through a network of root-like structures, like a mycelial organism. The bodies are arranged to create a sense of symmetry and balance, with each individual contributing to the beauty and harmony of the work. We can bloom just as if we are together.
The installation invites viewers to contemplate how we are all connected and how the world is connected with us. Moving around the installation, the audience can see bodies from different angles, revealing new connections and patterns. Like a giant flower that keeps blooming and expanding. Together we create a powerful Mandala - with a sacred geometry that we keep repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating, where a mystical Dolby surround sound coming from eight circular loudspeakers will immerse us in this feeling of connection between bodies, and voices, between us. Leave yourself in the flow, close your eyes and try to feel how connected you are.
5VIE Design Week 2023
For its tenth edition, 5VIE Design Week - the diffused event dedicated to artistic and collectable design, high craftsmanship and the contamination of design with the fields of art and creativity in the broadest sense - returns to the district of Milan's historical centre, in the area between Corso Magenta, Sant'Ambrogio and Le Colonne di San Lorenzo.
This year's title, Design for Good, is intended as an invitation to look at design as a tool for creating and cultivating deep human connections, with a focus on sustainability rooted in mutual care. International curators, artists and designers have been called upon to confront this theme through a series of installations produced by 5VIE, which run alongside the exhibitions of independent studios, companies and designers in the district.
Design for Good
This year's exhibitions and installations produced by 5VIE address themes such as spirituality, the connection with nature, the relationship with one's historical roots, the drama of incommunicability and the notion of connection. Faced with the complexities of the present and the challenges of the future, 5VIE intends to emphasise how the strength of the design lies in the poetic connection between the aesthetic dimension - in what is beautiful - with that of ethics - in what is good. Through feeling with the senses and with the heart, design becomes a language capable of connecting human beings beyond all borders and diversity and it turns into a tool for constructing values.
With this title, we want to draw attention to the need to rediscover a fundamentally human dimension, which contrasts disengagement with total commitment, total dedication to the other, restoring relationships and rediscovering the natural exchange between human beings.
Can this sense of sharing help us rediscover humanity, even where it seems lost due to global upheavals? Can design tap into an intimate and universal good?
Can design be caring? It is not the conviction of having the answer, but the urgency of asking the question, that directed our research.
Care is a resistant and tenacious word, used in the same sense as twenty-four centuries ago, and compared to other easier or more tenuous words it expresses the capacity for vigilant and constant dedication.
Current events pose contingent challenges and the task of design is not to remain indifferent, translating urgency into opportunity. In a time of rapid transitions, the need to find effective, pragmatic and quick answers can make one lose a real sense of direction. In confronting innovation and sustainability, we believe it is essential for design to take time to re-connect, and to produce new, just and good design modes.
'Design for Good' is a play on words: a wish that design is 'for real', and above all, that it is oriented towards a common good.
5VIE productions
5VIE is not only a design district, but also a cultural producer. The productions represent moments of reflection on the state of the art of the discipline, in which artists, designers and curators are asked to deepen an aspect of the theme established at the time. This year 5VIE presents six productions in collaboration with international creatives, confirming already established partnerships and inaugurating new ones.
The installation 'Human Mandala' is a celebration of the connections among human beings. The exhibition presents a series of real human bodies arranged in a circular mandala formation, with each individual naked and vulnerable, but connected to the others through a network of root-like structures, like a mycelial organism. The bodies are arranged to create a sense of symmetry and balance, with each individual contributing to the beauty and harmony of the work. We can bloom just as if we are together.
The installation invites viewers to contemplate how we are all connected and how the world is connected with us. Moving around the installation, the audience can see bodies from different angles, revealing new connections and patterns. Like a giant flower that keeps blooming and expanding. Together we create a powerful Mandala - with a sacred geometry that we keep repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating, where a mystical Dolby surround sound coming from eight circular loudspeakers will immerse us in this feeling of connection between bodies, and voices, between us. Leave yourself in the flow, close your eyes and try to feel how connected you are.
5VIE Design Week 2023
For its tenth edition, 5VIE Design Week - the diffused event dedicated to artistic and collectable design, high craftsmanship and the contamination of design with the fields of art and creativity in the broadest sense - returns to the district of Milan's historical centre, in the area between Corso Magenta, Sant'Ambrogio and Le Colonne di San Lorenzo.
This year's title, Design for Good, is intended as an invitation to look at design as a tool for creating and cultivating deep human connections, with a focus on sustainability rooted in mutual care. International curators, artists and designers have been called upon to confront this theme through a series of installations produced by 5VIE, which run alongside the exhibitions of independent studios, companies and designers in the district.
Design for Good
This year's exhibitions and installations produced by 5VIE address themes such as spirituality, the connection with nature, the relationship with one's historical roots, the drama of incommunicability and the notion of connection. Faced with the complexities of the present and the challenges of the future, 5VIE intends to emphasise how the strength of the design lies in the poetic connection between the aesthetic dimension - in what is beautiful - with that of ethics - in what is good. Through feeling with the senses and with the heart, design becomes a language capable of connecting human beings beyond all borders and diversity and it turns into a tool for constructing values.
With this title, we want to draw attention to the need to rediscover a fundamentally human dimension, which contrasts disengagement with total commitment, total dedication to the other, restoring relationships and rediscovering the natural exchange between human beings.
Can this sense of sharing help us rediscover humanity, even where it seems lost due to global upheavals? Can design tap into an intimate and universal good?
Can design be caring? It is not the conviction of having the answer, but the urgency of asking the question, that directed our research.
Care is a resistant and tenacious word, used in the same sense as twenty-four centuries ago, and compared to other easier or more tenuous words it expresses the capacity for vigilant and constant dedication.
Current events pose contingent challenges and the task of design is not to remain indifferent, translating urgency into opportunity. In a time of rapid transitions, the need to find effective, pragmatic and quick answers can make one lose a real sense of direction. In confronting innovation and sustainability, we believe it is essential for design to take time to re-connect, and to produce new, just and good design modes.
'Design for Good' is a play on words: a wish that design is 'for real', and above all, that it is oriented towards a common good.
5VIE productions
5VIE is not only a design district, but also a cultural producer. The productions represent moments of reflection on the state of the art of the discipline, in which artists, designers and curators are asked to deepen an aspect of the theme established at the time. This year 5VIE presents six productions in collaboration with international creatives, confirming already established partnerships and inaugurating new ones.
The installation 'Human Mandala' is a celebration of the connections among human beings. The exhibition presents a series of real human bodies arranged in a circular mandala formation, with each individual naked and vulnerable, but connected to the others through a network of root-like structures, like a mycelial organism. The bodies are arranged to create a sense of symmetry and balance, with each individual contributing to the beauty and harmony of the work. We can bloom just as if we are together.
The installation invites viewers to contemplate how we are all connected and how the world is connected with us. Moving around the installation, the audience can see bodies from different angles, revealing new connections and patterns. Like a giant flower that keeps blooming and expanding. Together we create a powerful Mandala - with a sacred geometry that we keep repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating, where a mystical Dolby surround sound coming from eight circular loudspeakers will immerse us in this feeling of connection between bodies, and voices, between us. Leave yourself in the flow, close your eyes and try to feel how connected you are.
5VIE Design Week 2023
For its tenth edition, 5VIE Design Week - the diffused event dedicated to artistic and collectable design, high craftsmanship and the contamination of design with the fields of art and creativity in the broadest sense - returns to the district of Milan's historical centre, in the area between Corso Magenta, Sant'Ambrogio and Le Colonne di San Lorenzo.
This year's title, Design for Good, is intended as an invitation to look at design as a tool for creating and cultivating deep human connections, with a focus on sustainability rooted in mutual care. International curators, artists and designers have been called upon to confront this theme through a series of installations produced by 5VIE, which run alongside the exhibitions of independent studios, companies and designers in the district.
Design for Good
This year's exhibitions and installations produced by 5VIE address themes such as spirituality, the connection with nature, the relationship with one's historical roots, the drama of incommunicability and the notion of connection. Faced with the complexities of the present and the challenges of the future, 5VIE intends to emphasise how the strength of the design lies in the poetic connection between the aesthetic dimension - in what is beautiful - with that of ethics - in what is good. Through feeling with the senses and with the heart, design becomes a language capable of connecting human beings beyond all borders and diversity and it turns into a tool for constructing values.
With this title, we want to draw attention to the need to rediscover a fundamentally human dimension, which contrasts disengagement with total commitment, total dedication to the other, restoring relationships and rediscovering the natural exchange between human beings.
Can this sense of sharing help us rediscover humanity, even where it seems lost due to global upheavals? Can design tap into an intimate and universal good?
Can design be caring? It is not the conviction of having the answer, but the urgency of asking the question, that directed our research.
Care is a resistant and tenacious word, used in the same sense as twenty-four centuries ago, and compared to other easier or more tenuous words it expresses the capacity for vigilant and constant dedication.
Current events pose contingent challenges and the task of design is not to remain indifferent, translating urgency into opportunity. In a time of rapid transitions, the need to find effective, pragmatic and quick answers can make one lose a real sense of direction. In confronting innovation and sustainability, we believe it is essential for design to take time to re-connect, and to produce new, just and good design modes.
'Design for Good' is a play on words: a wish that design is 'for real', and above all, that it is oriented towards a common good.
5VIE productions
5VIE is not only a design district, but also a cultural producer. The productions represent moments of reflection on the state of the art of the discipline, in which artists, designers and curators are asked to deepen an aspect of the theme established at the time. This year 5VIE presents six productions in collaboration with international creatives, confirming already established partnerships and inaugurating new ones.
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