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A letto con il DESIGN
DESIGN HOSTEL
BRIEF
“A letto con il DESIGN – Design Hostel” (“Sleeping with DESIGN – Design Hostel”) is an original proposal in the panorama of events taking place in the city during the Milan Design Week 2018. The project seeks to approach design from “behind the scenes”, and literally enter into the life of the projects and the people thinking and making them.
It’s a space that resembles a hostel, a temporary home or a “liveable factory”, which hybridizes and reinvents all these typologies together. It’s a project that reflects on the theme of hospitality, hosted inside an early 20th century factory building, which will be open during the design week to people who “think and make” design. The protagonists of the project will be welcomed in a temporary hostel which will come to life among the analog and digital factory machinery; every designer guest of the structure will provide a design project to be displayed in a customized setting, designed as a sleeping area.
These products will constitute an exhibition visitable throughout the Milan Design Week; an exhibition that will lead us, step by step, through the “design rooms”.
The aim of the call is to select 40 designers or groups of designers who propose a design for a small space (about 8sqm) within the factory. During the day this space will function as an exhibition area for their products and during the night the space will serve as a sleeping area.
SCHEDULE
Call opens: November, 27th, 2017
Call closes: January, 31st, 2018 by 11:59pm (CET)
Selection: February, 5th, 2018
“A letto con il DESIGN – Design Hostel” event: 14-24 April 2017
Check-in: April, 14th in the morning
Check-out: April, 24th in the morning
Positioning of the objects in the room: by April 16th in the afternoon
Opening (evening inauguration with opening event): April, 16th
Dismantling: April, 23rd by 6:00pm
FEES
€850
The fee grants the space for both exhibition and sleeping for 10 days (14-24 April 2018).
Hostel rooms can accommodate 1 or 2 designers, so other people willing to stay in the same place
must “book” a bed in the common area. 25 more beds are available. The cost is €50/person per
night.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
All the works meeting the call criteria will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the Initiative.
