The historical period in which we live faces us with conditions and challenges that could generate substantial changes in our way of thinking and a different, more contemporary approach to design activity (manifesto4 projects).


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Freedom Room

Freedom Room

A brand new hospitality concept. A low cost, essential housing module, conceived, designed and made in jail with inmates.

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Rethinking Happiness - Lectio Magistralis

Rethinking Happiness – Lectio Magistralis

Rethinking Happiness. Lection Magistralis by Aldo Cibic at Collegio Ghislieri – University of Pavia

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Designing Social Relationships

Designing Social Relationships

Symbola, Foundation for Italian Qualities, published this essay by Romina Surace on Cibicworkshop as part of the latest research on innovation in Italy.

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Cultivating a community

Cultivating a community

From monoculture to agricultural, social and economic diversification.

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I-Design

I-Design

Rethinking Happiness in Palermo, 12th october 2012

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A lovely place

As I thought about “Rethinking Happiness” over this last year, both in terms of thinking and designing, I inadvertently felt a strange sense of contradiction in the fact that the idea of living and working together with other people either in the heart of the beautiful Venetian countryside or suburbs of Milan made no great difference to me.
Indeed, I gradually came to believe that the main interest lay in the idea of somewhere linked with a sense of com- munity, which I would have liked to talk about or possibly experience for myself. more.

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Superbazaar

Superbazaar

A place to live, meet, buy, sell, swap.

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Rural Urbanism

Rural Urbanism

The city enters the countryside, the countryside enters the city.

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A campus in the fields.

A campus in the fields.

Venice agri-techno valley.

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New communities, new polarities.

New communities, new polarities.

How a small center becomes a large center.

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Rethinking Happiness is a project by Aldo Cibic and his team for Venice Biennale 2010.


rethinking happiness

Rethinking Happiness is a project by Cibicworkshop for Venice Biennale 2010.

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