Gianluca Facchini
Architect Bari / Italy
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The self-manufacturing practice represents a perfect meeting place between culture of doing and design culture, between handicraft’s practices and theories about design.
The designer and the craftsman become a unit and they try to use local products and materials in order to keep an economic relationship with the territory.
The current economic situation shows that the system is going to collapse; it shows also the necessity of production forms which respond to the end users’ demands.
This pract
The self-manufacturing practice represents a perfect meeting place between culture of doing and design culture, between handicraft’s practices and theories about design. The designer and the craftsman become a unit and they try to use local products and materials in order to keep an economic relationship with the territory. The current economic situation shows that the system is going to collapse; it shows also the necessity of production forms which respond to the end users’ demands. This pract