Design in a fast-changing society

Sandbag lounge | Antenna Design

Flexibility. Design in a fast-changing society -Torino 2008 World Design Capital

Domestic sandbags by antenna design new york (masamichi udagawa & sigi moeslinger). http://www.cribcandy.com/ideas/dfb089f3368538e15476411540ffac6b&pageoffset=0

The installation spectre is inspired by a ubiquitous improvisational building block: the sandbag. The sandbag is a pervasive object used in various situations of emergency and temporary set-up, such as battlefields, floods, earthquakes and other disaster scenes. we are giving the sandbag a new skin and context, which transforms the way it is perceived allowing it to enter a different realm of existence.

http://www.designerblog.it/post/3172/flexibility-design-in-a-fast-changing-society-per-torino-2008-world-design-capital

Life and places

The rhythm of life changes according to the place

The Modern City is the symbol of hectic people's life. Traffic, confusion, stress, job, house..lead the people to be "Fast", and consequently to live "Fast", with unsusteinable rhythm.

Everything becomes faster. This type of City is generally situated in economic developed States.

"Fast rhythm" in the City.

On the contrary there are small villages, situated in wild places, within the nature. In these villages, people's life flows slowly, without stress, confusion...The rhythm is marked by the Nature. Usually this kind of place has not been totally influenced by industrial progress, and it is also situated far from the city.

Mountain village: symbol of "slow life".

Slow City

 The Modern City: It can still be slow?

Cittaslow (literally Slow City) is a movement founded in Italy in October of 1999. The inspiration of Cittaslow was the Slow Food organization. Cittaslow's goals include improving the quality of life in towns while resisting "the fast-lane, homogenized world so often seen in other cities throughout the world" – as the official slowmovement.com description puts it. Celebrating and supporting diversity of culture and the specialties of a town and its hinterland are core Cittaslow values.

Cittaslow is part of a cultural trend known as the Slow movement.

Cittaslow has expanded broadly beyond Italy. By 2006, national Cittaslow networks existed in Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom; By mid-2009, fourteen countries have at least one officially accredited Cittaslow community. In July, 2009, the small seaside village of Cowichan Bay, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada became Canada's and North America's first Cittaslow town.

Movement's logo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cittaslow 

http://www.cittaslow.net/