Exist, orient, store, inebriate, measure, exchange, store, recite, write, think, navigate, love, share, rule, play, boil, adore, pierce, kill...The curators Andrea Branzi and Kenya Hara selected one hundred verbs, connected to one hundred objects, to let us travel across human history; words which relate to actions which relate to objects. Walking through the exhibition Neo-Prehistory at Triennale di Milano and reading this book means becoming lost in a space out of time, dark and multiplied by mirrors that make the exhibition apparently boundless. An infinite space where the hypnotic sequence of artifacts is emphasized by the primeval sound of a heartbeat slowing down and then accelerating rhythmically in a mesmeric cycle.
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An exploration of the primeval origins of designand their contemporary consequences.
"The curators of this book and its parallel exhibition selected 100 actions and paired each with a single object, in one case dating as far back as 2500 BC, to frame 'the history of human desire into a kind of fixed verse poetry.' Neo-Prehistory is arguably a chronology of design, as it meditates on how humans came to manipulate the world as the complexity of our actions evolved in tandem with our tools." --Metropolis magazine -The curators of this book and its parallel exhibition selected 100 actions and paired each with a single object, in one case dating as far back as 2500 BC, to frame 'the history of human desire into a kind of fixed verse poetry.' Neo-Prehistory is arguably a chronology of design, as it meditates on how humans came to manipulate the world as the complexity of our actions evolved in tandem with our tools.- --Metropolis magazine
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783037784938
Publisert
2016-06-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Lars Muller Publishers
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Flerspråklig
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter

Biographical note

ANDREA BRANZI (*1938) is an Italian architect and designer, and a professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan.KENYA HARA (*1958) is a graphic designer, a professor at the Art University Musashino, and communication advisor for Muji.