FLEXIBILITY

until sunday october 12 2008
Ex-Carceri "Le Nuove"
via Paolo Borsellino, 1
10138 Torino
Italy

www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it

Labyrinths of roads, agglomerations of buildings, mazes of relations. In 2050 over 90% of the world's population will live in cities, places that already today are characterised by growing complexity.

The urban panorama is a system of close-knit connections between material objects and immaterial factors produced by man. An often chaotic space, that conditions, restrains and sometimes paralyses movement, considerably reducing the space for manoeuvre of individuals.

Too often, in fact, the structure and products used every day are characterised by rigidity and poor adaptability. In this scenario, flexibility becomes a need and a response at the same time. Flexibility as a need to break down walls, to leave well-trodden paths, to step away from pre-packaged solutions. Flexibility as a response: an attitude that allows individuals to react to a context that changes at ever-increasing speed and produces unexpected results, sometimes with an explosive impact.