Sara Ricciardi (IT) +Matteo Cibic (IT)
The Happy Tribe – Sociality After the Virtual Dementia
July 18th – July 24th 2021
The Workshop
Our workshop imagines a futuristic tribe that develops antidotes for civilization’s contemporary psychoses such as xenophobia, hypochondria, hikikomori, apocalyptic panic etc.
In opposition to these pandemic diseases, we are going to look at how they have developed in the first place, how incoming and outgoing information is being filtered and transformed into codes of action and communication.
We’ll then use our insights to imagine and create new role models for languages, codes, fetishes, and other tools that express our tribe's liberation, autonomy, and confident attitude.
Working with our brains, feelings, and the full effort of our bodies we’ll create new objects, environments, clothing, body adornment, or rituals that shall come together in a final big bang, spreading the good news back home wherever that is.
Workshop Categories
Sara Ricciardi Italy
Sara Ricciardi, is a designer who wanders around the fields of product design, installation, set design and social design.
She’s based in Milan and holds courses in social co-design and performance at the Naba, New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and at the Domus Academy.
She’s a great stone’s collector and leads international “Design thinking” workshops.
Selected by Wallpaper among the finalists of Next Designer Generation 2018
She works with fashion stores, such as Luisa Via Roma in Florence, to define new “experiencial interiors”.
She’s fascinated by the emotional and physical reaction between people and matter working with Company and Design Galleries. Chaos and methodology are both important to create new narratives with a powerful identity.
www.sararicciardi.org
Matteo Cibic Italy
Matteo Cibic (b. 1983) is an Italian trans media designer and creative director. He is known for his objects characterised by hybrid functions and anthropomorphic forms charged with irony. In his work he makes use of industrial processes but also works alongside small-scale crafts firms to produce pieces for luxury brands, collectors and hi-tech companies.
In the past 15 years he funded companies that distribute peculiar and weird services and products such: 10A – The Suspender Trousers Company, 5minutesfriend.org (the grandfather of ChatRoulette.com), Domsai (desk friend terrariums), Paradiso Dreams (a bestiary of ceramic creatures), Cioccolato Milanese (the saffron Milanese souvenir).
The artist has exhibited at such Italian and foreign museums as the Musée Pompidou of Paris, the Shanghai Museum of Glass, the Triennale Design Museum of Milan, Mudac – Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts of Lausanne and at such events as the Biennale Internationale Design Saint Étienne and the Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, as well as at galleries such as Rossana Orlandi of Milan, Mint Gallery of London, Seeds Gallery of London, Secondome Gallery of Rome, Le Mill in Mumbai and Superego in Asti.
www.matteocibicstudio.com
