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ex carceri ‘le nuove’, turin june 29 – october12 http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it
flexibility – design in a fast-changing society’ is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in conjunction with the city being named the ‘design world capital for 2008’. the show consists of nine projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri ‘le nuove’.
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image © designboomemiliana design studio ana mir (valencia, 1969) and emili padrós (barcelona, 1969) are master of arts in industrial design in the central saint martins school of arts and design, of london. in 1996, ana and emili decided to found emili ana design studio in barcelona, where they work together on different commissions and at the same time they develop their individual research projects. they have curated and designed exhibitions in tokyo, barcelona, nagoya, milan, frankfurt, florida. emili and ana have participated in design and the elastic mind at moma museum of modern art of new york. some of their clients are: icex , toyota motors, samsung, women’secret, richter spielgeräte, akaba, nani marquina, comme des garçons parfums, uno design.
— see the nine installations:
 renewable clothing by fernando brízio |  instant rooms by matali crasset |  liquid memory by ross lovegrove |
 chasen by patricia urquiola |  mirror-blind by bertjan pot |  flexible bench by giulio iacchetti |
 domestic sandbags by antenna design |  jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar |  my treasures trash by emiliana design studio |
— ‘flexibility’ introduction 
flexibility – introduction
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