2009/2010 Egypt workshops

Design Workshop Leishan 2010

Cairo Forum 2010

The Ñandeva

Ñandeva is an crafts expansion program that aims the strengthen of a three-frontier borders identity ( in the border region between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay) through the insertion of
elements and icons that forward to these peoples culture. In a constant dialogue between designers and craftsmen, the products are developed with the intention of generating income and opportunity to the producers' community. Thanks to Malba Aguilar and Juan Sotuyo idealism, the program was born in 2004, during the first Crafts and design Workshop, from which resulted many works with great esthetic and cultural value. Then, it was born the seed of what would become the current program, consolidated after the execution of a three-frontier-border director plan, accomplished in February, 2006.

Giulio and Valerio Vinaccia, are authors of the book “Iconographic Elements of the Triple Frontier Region” and advisors to Ñadeva since the beginning of the program.
The book “Iconographic Elements of the Triple Border” is the result of a study carried out by anthropologists and historians, who identified typical elements of the region. With this data, a group of designers, under the supervision of Giulio Vinaccia, visited 28 municipalities in the Tri-border area in order to collect images of the elements. The work resulted in an image database with about five thousand pictures, which was the basis for the creation of the first 450 symbols that define the region.
Now, all icons are available in the 832 pages of the two volume book. Divided into eight chapters (colonization, architecture, Guarani people, Jesuit missions, flora and fauna, arts, tourism and
geography), the book provides information on the meaning of each icon and suggestions of applications for handicraft.
Ñandeva
Iconography pages

Torino 2008 World Design Capital

Torino Geodesign Project

A project and competition, Torino Geodesign is first and foremost an idea which defines an extraordinarily large and productive field of action: self-determined design, produced in limited series by communities inside huge globalised metropolises.

Project: Packaging for food / Peruvians communities.
On weekends, inhabitants of Peruvian origin gather in the Parco della Pellerina, where they cook and share traditional Peruvian dishes. The project calls for creating and commercializing packaging for this food.
Links:
Torino Geodesign Page
Torino Geodesign Projects
Images on Flickr

Sistema di trasporto per alimenti / comunità peruviana.
Il fine settimana, gli abitanti di origine peruviana si riuniscono nel Parco della Pellerina, dove cucinano e condividono i tradizionali piatti peruviani. Il progetto per il trasporto e la commercializzazione per questi alimenti.


Some sketches and prototypes

Pamplona "La idea apropiada"

Pamplona
Crear Artesanias, CEIN

Project:"La idea apropiada"
Coordination of workshops and iconographic research.
Samples from different artisans, Toña Marìn and Fernando Muñoz

http://www.crearartesania.com/laideaapropiada.htm