DESIGN_ Ten designers design new school desks for Haiti which can be build on site, and thus help the local economy in a small way: wooden, easy to build, and low-cost.
From an idea by the architect and designer Claudio Larcher, involved in social issues, comes an ambitious project that aims to create a correlation between the world of product design and international cooperation. The initiative is part of a large project for cooperation and development between Italy, Dominican Republic and Haiti. The exhibition Hispaniola-Design for solidarity involves ten designers in design of furniture, in particular school desk for educational facilities, as known as called "escuelitas", which welcomes each year hundreds of Dominican and Haitian children excluded from public education.
The aim is twofold: on the one hand to bring attention to the situation in Haiti, on the other to bring concrete contribution to the local economy through a creative and productive impulse capable of triggering innovative development processes.
The selected designers are: Claudio Larcher - Modoloco design, Matteo Ragni, Giulio Iacchetti, Garth Roberts, Filippo Protasoni, Simone Simonelli, Lorenz*Kaz, Elisabeth Vidal & Huub Ubbens, Inoda + Sveje, Donata Paruccini.
They all joined with enthusiasm, giving rise to an original and innovative reflection, focused on a product, the school desk, to be realized in the simplest way and used in many different ways, able to serve an audience of children 3 to 8 years.
Paco y Paco by Claudio Larcher - Modoloco design
Pequenos pasos by Garth Roberts
ABC by Lorenz*Kaz
Bo&Hio by Elisabeth Vidal & Huub Ubbens
Promoted by: Associazione ColorEsperanza, with the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo, in partnership with: OnéRespé, Centro de reflexiòn, encuentro y solidariedad (ONG dmoinicana), Consolato della Repubblica Dominica a Milano, Dona Un Sorriso Onlus; with the participation of Anacaona, Associazione di donne dominicane a Milano.
http://hispanioladesign.com/
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