Design curators and architects Barbara Brondi and Marco Rainó founded the IN Residence program in 2008 to be an annual design workshop bringing together 5-6 young designers and selected students from the 4 design schools in Torino to explore a central theme. Since then, the program has expanded to include a print publication, design talks and regular exhibitions featuring thoughtful and exploratory work around a single theme.
At this year's Milan presentations, Another Terra: Home Away From Home treated a certain feeling of impending crisis in a playful way. As we mentioned in our previous posts, many designers at this year's show addressed the uncertain future through their works or processes. Another Terra asked 15 young designers, "If you had to envisage life on some other habitable planet other than Earth, what kind of minimal hand luggage would you take with you?"
As Barbara Brondi and Marco Rainó explain in the EXCLUSIVE video interview below, the theme was inspired by NASA's recent discovery of another habitable earth. Themes that emerged included bringing tools for creation as in Tom´s Alonso's "Tools" box and Mischer'Traxler's "Tools - Knowledge - Memory" kit or packing up plants for agricultural purposes as Studio Besau-Marguerre's hand-held greenhouse "Handgepäck" or Jo Meester's self-seeding "Materra" bowls.
Check the jump for more images as well as a second serving of exhibition goodness from Brondi and Rainó's show on woven objects for Milan's Plusdesign Gallery.Lanzavecchia + Wai, "One Day in the life of V.M. on Earth" Space Quilt
Next door to Another Terra, Plusdesign Gallery exhibited The Threads That Bind Us , a series of original works that showcase new ways of working with woven materials in designed objects. Curated by Brondi and Rainó, the objects gave new meaning to a universally practiced craft.
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