flexibility – jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar image © designboom

 

 

flexibility – design in a fast changing society
ex carceri ‘le nuove’, turin
june 29 – october 12, 2008

 

‘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’.

flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar image © designboom

 

 

jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar

vendôme is body of work takes a precondition of endless transformation as its point of departure. the idea is to parametrically generate a family of objects with different typologies including stools, pedestals and tables of different heights’. for their installation ‘jailbreak’ kram/weisshaar built a tower using a number of pieces from the vendôme series which  reached towards one of the prisons skylights.http://www.kramweisshaar.com

reed kram of kram/weisshaar elaborates on the projec video © designboom

flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar image © designboom

flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar image © designboom

flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaarground view image © designboom

flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaarindividual modules image © designboom

 

the vendôme series was originally conceived for ‘designers of the future’ part of design miami / basel 2008 – you can find more on the project here.

see the nine installations:

flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
renewable clothing
by fernando brízio
flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
instant rooms
by matali crasset
flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
liquid memory
by ross lovegrove

 

flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
chasen
by patricia urquiola
flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
mirror-blind
by bertjan pot
flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
flexible bench
by giulio iacchetti

 

flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
domestic sandbags
by antenna design
flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
jailbreak (vendôme series)
by kram/weisshaar
flexibility - jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar
my treasures trash
by emiliana design studio

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