CONVERSATION PIECES AT THE MILANO DESIGN WEEK BY HEAD

In an apartment designed entirely by the students, from spaces to furniture, from video games to interactive wallpaper and culminating in three ceramic centrepieces, which give the exhibition its name, the design of the space, products and objects shows how, over and above functions, materials, forms and concepts, its role can also modify interpersonal relationships and, for example, draw people into conversation. So, as its name indicates, Conversation Pieces is an exhibition which, as well as presenting and displaying the students’ work contextualized in a realistic contemporary show apartment, also invites leading figures from the world of design, students and a guest whose name is selected at random every day for a themed evening dinner organised by Alexandra Midal and Jean-Pierre Greff. Gathered around a vast round table in the dining room, they will embrace a significant design issue, analyse, examine and discuss it during the dinner. The latter will be filmed, recorded and then broadcasted the next day on the website of our media partner, TAR art review.

Conversation Pieces invites visitors to experiment with the invention and production of forms in a fun and convivial manner. Concentrating on design`s capacity to promote debate, whether in the literal sense of the dinners, or the metaphorical one of the projects and spaces exhibited, raises the question of in what way it is possible for forms to also be the expression of a soul or a Stimmung. 
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