Creating value
49
CREATIVIT Y PREVAILS ALSO IN THIS PROJECT
the Italian law, specifically the decree 152 of 2006, since they could release toxic micro-polluting substances into the air. According to the “152 collection” project, this “cocciame” is inserted into the bowl which has an air space and thus can house these materials. In a further step the bowl is permanently sealed and the cocciame cannot come into contact with the user. The self-production project “Ripensa” goes one step further in recovering the value of the waste, considered not only as a material but as a “memory” of a lived past as well: created starting from the environment-friendly and anti-consumerism concept that “keeping” is better than “recycling”, “Ripensa” is a kit of coloured enamels useful to fill in voids, chippings and small breakings which can occur in dishes used every day. A way to give more value to existing things, lengthening their lasting in time through the creative intervention of the end user. A project where we can easily read also
the playful side of Damiani’s work: the game of recovering the creativity in the person using the objects and living them in their everyday life. As is the case of “Airpouf ”, a vacuum cleaner that can be exhibited also to welcome guests, since it is a comfortable seat as well as a useful electrical appliance. The merging of both elements creates a hybrid kind of object, a pouf-vacuum cleaner lined with a removable fabric cover. It looks like a sphere with three holes: one to place the vacuum cleaner tube extension, one to turn the appliance on and the other as an air exhaust. Coloured balls close the holes when the pouf is used as a seat and start flying and lying suspended in the air when the vacuum cleaner is used. Play, attention to the environment and production, reversal and transition in the use of different technologies in the name of creativity and of the pleasure to create beautiful and right objects.
RECYCLING REJECTS Above, “Udine Chair” (2003), a comfortable seat made with recovered waste sawdust. This project is an example of the possibility to reduce resource consumptions. Under, a vase belonging to the collection “I Truciolari” (2010, Arredamento Garbagnati production), made with pasted and lathe-thrown chipboard panels.
046_049_damianiok - Copia.indd 49
17/12/12 08:35