The personal and thematic exhibitions focus on different kinds of design, the way in which new materials and technologies can be turned into innovative products, the latest forms of expression used by designers and the most advanced and daring experiments by young designers.

 

 
DESIGN ANONIMO
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Alberto Bassi con F. Bulegato e S. Lucibello

The exhibition showcases industrial products that have become part of our daily life; it illustrates their history, why they became popular and discovers who invented them.
   
ADBUSTER
comunicazione contro
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Lorenzo Imbesi

The exhibition presents a global network that organises campaigns in favour of the freedom of communication and against manipulative and excessive consumerism, connecting the modern information age with new forms of social activism through consumerabstention and initiatives that ironically discredit the claims of big global corporations.
   
MARK FISCHER
Exhibit_Rock
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Lorenzo Imbesi

The exhibition presents the design career of the person who has reintroduced form into rock shows as a cultural phenomenon. Fischer has created the most spectacular live sets for concerts by Madonna, the Rolling Stones, the U2, the Cirque du Soleil, mixing architecture, design, entertainment design, technological innovation, structural research and special effects.
   
STUDIO AZZURRO
Sensitive Enviroments
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Sabrina Lucibello

An artistic research studio that bases its expression on the languages afforded by recent technologies. It was first set up in ‘82 by Cirifino (photography), Rosa (visual arts and film) and Sangiorgi (graphics and animation), and Roveda in the ‘95, an expert in interactive systems. For over 20 years, S.A has been investigating the poetic and expressive potential of these systems and interactive environments, theatrical performances and films; it has blazed a trail that is acknowledge worldwide by countless major artistic and theatrical institutions and events.
   
FABIO MASSIMO IAQUONE
Desiring to touch
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Loredana Di Lucchio

A multimedia installation by Fabio Massimo Iaquone where the stage is free from three-dimensional gravity to become a perceptive incitement that seconds the ancestral, infantile and sexual desire to "touch" everything: objects, images and sounds …
   
VIRTUAL REALITY IN DESIGN
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Cecilia Cecchini

The use of Immersive Virtual Reality in design is revolutionary. In a small virtual room, a video simulates how virtual reality can be used to design a car, assess its comfort, ergonomics, safety, upkeep
as well as test how the parts have been assembled.
   
DESIGN FOR MADE IN ITALY
From Roma to Lazio
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Carlo Martino

The illustrates the current state-of-the-art of design in Rome and Lazio, the results of the research carried out by the teachers and researchers of the Section of Arts, Design and New Technologies of the ITACA Department as well as the material collated by the La Sapienza Scientific Observatory of Design. The subsystems of regional design include the following: companies, culture, research, professions and schools.
   
GAIALIGHT
Trattamento light
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
a cura dell'Ass. culturale " La coda dell'occhio"

The exhibition presents the new cycle of the works of Gaialight, in which the Italo-American artist develops, Off-limits, her works on products of industrial design for mass consumption. This time, Gaialight applies her artistic techniques (collages, photography, installations) to aids for the disabled: wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, hearing aids, transforming them into post-pop objects.
   
DESIGN PEEP SHOW PARADE
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Lorenzo Imbesi

Design Peep Show is a window on the creative research of the young generation focusing on highly experimental projects, prototypes and products, recreating a creative landscape between professionals,
schools and young talents in all types of production, from classical disciplines of interior design to product and exhibit design and graphic communications.
   
InteractiveObject1.0
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Lorenzo Imbesi

Objects/prototypes, installations and design experiences on interaction design between research and production, with more or less hidden technological interactions, interactive robots, mobile/wearable
products, wearable technologies and technological clothes (wearables), products for the disabled, installations that can be tested directly by the visitor.
   
FACTORY LSD
Laboratorio Sapienza design
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
a cura Loredana Di Lucchio

Using emblematic experiences, past and present, the exhibition shows how the Factory LSD can be a key player in using design - images, ideas, prototypes and products - to create culture or as the driving force behind innovation for companies, institutions, professionals, universities and research centres.
   
CREATED IN ITALY FOR CHINA
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
a cura Loredana Di Lucchio

The exhibition illustrates how the creativity, production and research employed by Sistema Italia can satisfy the demands of a society as dynamic as the one in "new" China. The products on display were developed in as part of the MIUR Research, Made In Italy for China, involving research groups working on design in Italian universities.
   
METRO DOPO METRO
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Massimo d’Alessandro

The objective of the Metrodopometro project is to make people think about the Metro System at a time when Rome is making huge changes to its infrastructure network, turning it into a complex system with its own characteristic identity. The project by Anish Kapoo and Future Systems for the Monte S. Angelo station in Naples, introduces the exhibition that will be held in 2008.
   
VITRA EAMES
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Dieter Thiel con Sabrina Lucibello

The exhibition celebrates the centennial of the birth of Charles Eames(1907-1978) with an exhibition dedicated to the American designer’s creative genius. Charles and his wife Ray are one of the most productive artistic duos in the history of design. The exhibition has been organised together with Vitra which for over 50 years has produced and sold the Eames’ furniture in Europe and North Africa.
   
A ROMA COME AL MOMA
5 | 13.10.07 - h10 | 22 exhibit
by Laura Falconi e Alessandro Sartor

Objects of Italian design on show at the MoMa were photographed in specific locations in Rome, putting symbolic objects of Italian design (Made in Italy) together in a collage of photographs, products and their history.