Droog presents hardware with a twist during Salone del Mobile, Milan 2015: Construct Me!
“Construct Me” is the smallest exhibition that has ever been in Milan shows. The collection of 210 hardware items was presented in their natural habitat, the ordinary Ferramenta Hardware Store.
The Design Academy of Eindhoven ( DAE ) alumni presented their graduation projects in Milan, Italy: at the Lambretto Art Project Building.
The ‘self’ in the exhibition title still first and foremost refers to the student. The Design Academy of Eindhoven is fully focused on the talents, preferences and fascinations of its students. For their graduation they have to initiate projects themselves, in which these come to the fore.
But when you look at those projects – about healthcare, open source production, new economic systems – they come across as pretty altruistic. Contemporary design is very much oriented toward the ‘unself’.’