Designoftheotherthings from May 26 to July 4 at the Triennale Design Museum May 25, 2010

The Salone del Mobile and the MINI Countryman exhibition have packed up and left town, and now MINI & Triennale CreativeSet herald the commencement of the exhibition Designoftheotherthings, the second series of exhibitions dedicated to Italian contemporary design. As Triennal Design Museum director Silvana Annichiarico tells us, this series will “place different modes of operation, attitudes to design, and unconventional fields of expression alongside one another, side by side.” Designoftheotherthings highlights a series of collective experiences, and the work of designers, companies, and Italian institutions alike. They all develop projects based on very broad and innovative design ideas, on designs applied to material and immaterial things; designs that doesn’t merely create an object, but rather produce what Stefano Maffei, the exhibition curator, defines as the other things. The protagonists of the exhibition work on ideas that correlate projects with sustainability, scientific with cultural experimentation, a service to its territory, technology with society, and which also connect education to local traditions in ways that are always different. You want examples? With Recycled Knit, asap promotes the re-use of cashmere fibre in new knitwear items, emphasising the sustainability of the process. Kublai is a networking platform for the promotion of creative types and their projects. Lanificio Leo is an experimental company that produces Tipico/Atipico, recycling to transform the idea of souvenirs, combining tradition with innovation through printed textile creations. SENSEable City Lab - MIT presents the Copenhagen wheel project, combining beauty with functionality: A high-tech wheel accumulates human energy, making it available when needed. The performance of the wheel can be measured by iPhone, and the sensors installed in the wheel itself allow you to view traffic information, environmental conditions and the community of other connected cyclists. Reggio Children - Atelier Raggio di Luce, through the installation Scrivere con la luce (Writing with light), focuses on the importance of natural phenomena with a scientific, yet curious, poetic and emotional attitude, in order to educate children through experimental research. Discover these and other projects at the exhibition.