(cover image The Avocado Legacy, ph. Benedikt Trojer)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nShowcasing material experiments, fashion items, products, performances as well as videos and photos, Room For Change<\/strong> highlights the design and narrative potential of plants <\/strong>and reveals stories of interdependence, empowerment, resilience, but also exploitation, overconsumption, and colonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\nc<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nPlant Circus (installation shot), ph. Leonie Hochstrasser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Avocado Legacy, The School of Phyto-centred Design, ph. Benedikt Trojer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Avocado Legacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Among the works on show is the research conducted by Kareem Goshan, Katherine Lopez, Benedikt Trojer<\/strong> directed by the Mexican designer Fernando Laposse<\/strong>, which explores the potential of design as a tool to trigger new social and environmental debates starting from the avocado. <\/p>\n\n\n\nTaking the current global obsession for this fruit as the starting point for their research, the group has developed a collection of artefacts that transform avocado waste<\/strong> (peels, seeds) into new biomaterials and natural dyes.<\/strong> While highlighting the manifold creative applications that the plant enables, the project wishes also to encourage the public to reflect further on the ecological and social repercussions that consumption-driven lifestyles produce. The cultivation of the plant is one of the biggest driving forces behind deforestation, biodiversity loss and violence towards vulnerable communities in Mexico. The Avocado Legacy reminds us that in a highly connected world, our choices as consumers always have an impact.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe collection also tries to draw parallels – in a critical but ironic way – with events that occurred in the past such as colonialism: the aesthetics of the artefacts recalls that of 17th century objects <\/strong>which exploited precious and exotic materials for the creation of products linked to myths and esoteric beliefs, far from the original cultural use of the material.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Harvest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Another of the projects that will be possible to see at Room for Change is The Harvest<\/strong>, a fashion collection that celebrates plants, seasonality and decay, born from the collaboration between eight international creative designers \u2013 Davide Balda, Jaqueline Lobodda, Deborah Egger, Sahra Jajarmikhayat, Ano Jishkariani, Chi Tran, Sujia Wang, Dana Zoutman<\/strong> \u2013 under the artistic direction of the French designer Emma Bruschi, winner of the 19M Prix des M\u00e9tiers d’Art de CHANEL at the 35t Festival International Fashion, Photography, and Fashion Accessories – Hy\u00e8res 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\nInspired by the surrounding nature, the designers have reinterpreted natural fibers and materials of plant origin and traditional techniques – such as weaving, weaving, spinning, using crochet – with a contemporary language. The result is six experimental and poetic “looks” that celebrate the concepts of reciprocity and symbiosis with nature.<\/strong> The collection highlights the creative and narrative potential of the plant world<\/strong>, rediscovering the history and technical possibilities of plants in textile production and fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\nc<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nThe Avocado Legacy, The School of Phyto-centred Design, ph. Benedikt Trojer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Harvest, The School of Phyto-centred Design, ph. Sahra Jajarmikhayat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other projects from the Room For Change installation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Among the other works on show is a selection of material experiments and prototypes<\/strong> – developed during the 2023 edition of the School of Utopias<\/em> – which reveals part of the research process behind the objects protagonists of the installation. The Manifesto of Phyto-centred Design by do-t-s<\/strong>, in collaboration with Matthieu Visentin (graphic design), which questions the dominant anthropocentric vision of the Western world and invites creatives to reframe their relationship with non-human beings and especially plants. We Are All Lichens<\/em>, a textile flag, the result of Natalia Cerda Milla<\/strong>‘s research. Chita’ Anyaman, braiding tales<\/em> by Evey Kwong<\/strong>, a collection of palm-woven wearables. The film Plant Circus<\/em> by Katharina Mludek, Katrin Schwarz, Julia Sulikowska<\/strong> which portrays a typical day at Pillnitz Palace and Park, between fiction and reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor the spirit and format of the Room for Change<\/strong> installation, a conscious choice was made not to buy new plants but to temporarily host existing ones, lent by Katharina and Thomas’s Vienna-based design studio mischer’traxler<\/strong>. The plants will return at their home after the end of Vienna Design Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDon’t miss Room For Change<\/strong> and the results of the School of Phyto-centered Design curated by d-o-t-s<\/strong>, visit the installation at the Festival Headquarters<\/a><\/em>, Prater 2, Laufbergergasse 12 and follow the studio on Instagram!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nc<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nWe Are All Lichens, ph. Leonie Hochstrasser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPlant Circus (still from film), The School of Phyto-centred Design, image \u00a9 Katharina Mludek, Katrin Schwarz, Julia Sulikowska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nChita\u2019 Anyaman, ph. Leonie Hochstrasser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Avocado Legacy, The School of Phyto-centred Design, ph. Olly Cruise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Avocado Legacy, The School of Phyto-centred Design, ph. Benedikt Trojer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Harvest, The School of Phyto-centred Design, ph. Sahra Jajarmikhayat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Harvest, The School of Phyto-centred Design, ph. Sahra Jajarmikhayat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Harvest, The School of Phyto-centred Design, ph. Sahra Jajarmikhayat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few months ago we presented the School of Phyto-centered Design, the 2023 summer program curated by d-o-t-s – Laura Drouet\u00a0and\u00a0Olivier Lacrouts – for the Design Campus at Pillnitz Palace and Park in Dresden, Germany. From 22 September at Vienna Design Week it will be possible to see Room for Change, an installation which, in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":74060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-09-21T06:05:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"0189fe79-1d60-4ee4-ae0a-b70a8841902b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-09-21T06:05:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAYn-eR1gTuSuCrcKiEGQKw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[7003,7155],"tags":[7691,36172,11673,14949,14091,16371,28682,11701,8353,24916,36741,36743,36180,36745,7113],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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