Laboratory abstract

The change in the significance of goods is a process that, ever since the end of the Industrial Revolution, has triggered far-reaching changes in society as the term has lost any meaning in relation to its purely functional character and increasingly come to represent symbolic and cultural contents. Idea Store investigates future retail spaces as complex places combining many aspects that go beyond the spatial and functional to include the physical, social, cultural, and economic. Spaces for Goods are experimental and experiential, merging with public spaces, cultural and leisure spaces: spaces integrating a multitude of spatial and functional aspects in a complex network, crossed by systems of physical, social, cultural and economic. The Idea Store is a metaphorical realm where products are becoming a system of values, expressions of how we live and imagine our lives, indicators of social and political choices and actions on the world, both activator and facilitator. Students of the Design School of Polimi have designed a spatial device and social media/web campaign to support 4 international charities.

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Project Description

Printed on Hope

Course: Interdisciplinary Workshop_Ideastore

Academic Year: 2020/2021

Professors: Francesca Murialdo

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Partners: /

Students: Nuno Gonzales Rabaque, Silvia Sghirinzetti, Maria Cruz, Antonino Ponzo, Federico Fanucchi

The project aims to rethink the regular Shelter shops, creating e completely new dynamic experience. The client wil have the opportunity of buying premium handcrafted products, directly produced in shop, but there will be also the chance to learn new skills and participate in social events. Who We are an experienced team of 5 young professionals from various disciplines and nationalities. From spatial designers to crafty artists we’ve been able to create a new space and offer quality products and prime activities.Vision/Our vision is to expand the model of a flexible space to the other exsting shelter shops, helping to grow the income, modernising the product range and connecting with a larger audience. Nonetheless is the opportunity to transmit an important hope message. Mission/We’ll host events and keep growing trough artists collabs. We aim to connect with the community and create a strong local identity. Space/The proyect will be host in an open multifunctional space with deeply rooted aesthetics. In fact we want to transmit the shelter concept through a House-like shape. The storytelling is important and we want to create a deeeper connection between the experince/product and the objectives of Shelter Charity.

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