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I spy, I spy a little lie, Marres, from 13th December to 4th February 2017, Maastricht.
What design tools and modalities can we use for the common city? How can we shape it? Today, what we still use to create our habitat consists of a series of elements and theories inherited from modernity. The architect Giancarlo De Carlo, in his Architecture of the participation says that “firstly, we can say that to label and classify human behaviors we must have recourse to ‘typification.’ We must, in other words, create a model-man who produces action which can be considered typical. Let us observe that the model-man has neither society nor history, that his perimeters do not extend beyond the rotation of his members. His behaviors are no more than abstract descriptions, having a little to do with reality: they embody neither contradictions nor conflicts because the circle within which the behaviors of the model-man occurs is empty “. The project imagined for Marres tries to deny and subvert this condition decomposing and recomposing the design modernist paradigm by playing. Within the standards of Le Corbusier’s Modulor, it is impressed the violence of the homogenization of behaviors. While the modernist design is based on a top-down approach, on the typification of the human body, and thus on standards, in order to rethink the future common habitat it is necessary the subversion of all those modernist paradigms. With a series of simple geometrical shapes the user will be able to decompose and rebuild those elements through simple joints, thus playing as a child.
I spy, I spy a little lie, curated by Evelyn Simons and Isabel van Bos.
14.12.2017 – 04.02.2018
Participating artists: Henry Andersen, Felix Breidenbach, Alejandro Cerón, Nicholas Hoffman, Aurélie d’Incau, Jesuus, Tim Löhde, Jose Montealegre, Ektor Ntourakos, Johanna Odersky, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (Gary Farrelly and Chris Dreier), Nadia Perlov, Maria Gil Ulldemolins and Remko Van der Auwera.
Scenography: Parasite 2.0
Collaborator: Matthias Verhoene
Graphic Design: Roxanne Maillet
"10 Anni di Parasite 2.0"_In dialogo con Salvatore Peluso su PTW School
[READ]"Scenografie Politiche" per Menelique #4
[READ]In dialogue with Nick Axel for Extra Extra Magazine n.13°
[READ]"Parasite Invasion" is part of Istmo magazine's first release!
[READ]"Ten Deserts" for Un Sedicesimo #55 by Corraini Edizioni.
[READ]"At the beginning there was the desert" for Magda Magazine. Text by Parasite, photography by Giaime Meloni.
[READ]Our article on Horst Arts and Music Festival is on Domus web
[READ]"Architecture, artifice and the normative man" on Avery Shorts
[READ]"Three Stories: On Future Shock, Retreat, and Architecture as Scenography" on DUE a weekly publication made by Sofia Pia Belenky and Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard and designed by Simone Niquille for the Architectural Association.
[READ]"Cosmology, Subcultures and Urban Wilderness" on Archinect
[READ]"The Internet Was a Desert" on Archinect.com
[READ]"The desert on the margins is my Heimat: for a non-eurocentric vision of migrations and architecture"_Cartha on Making Heimat, a special issue on the German Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, 2016
[READ]"Towards a Digital Talking Architecture"_Form of Formalism, n.3, 2016
[READ]“L’architetto neofiliaco”_Kabul Magazine, 2016
[READ]"The Neophiliac Architect: Three-act play" Trans 28, architectural magazine edited by ETH Zurich Architecture Department
[READ]"Partytopia, crypto urban desert e primitive future tribalism" Artribune, “Carnet d’architecture” a cura di Emilia Giorgi
[READ]“Primitive Future Office”_Plug-in Book, 2016
[READ]"Extreme-Land#5" Interview with Simone Niquille_ATP Diary
[READ]"Extreme-Land#4" Interview with Matilde Cassani_ATP Diary
[READ]"Extreme-Land#2" Interview with m-a-u-s-e-r_ATP Diary
[READ]"Extreme-Land#3" Interview with Aristide Antonas_ATP Diary
[READ]"Extreme-Land#1" Interview with Andreas Angelidakis_ATP Diary
[READ]“Città: rammendare le coscienze” Archphoto
[READ]Parasite 2.0 is a design and research agency based in Milan and London. Founded in 2010 by Stefano Colombo, Eugenio Cosentino and Luca Marullo, they investigate the status of human habitats, acting within a hybrid of architecture, design, and scenography.
Parasite 2.0 has worked and collaborated with Venice Architecture Biennale, Fondazione Prada, Copenhagen International Fashion Fair, Ikea, Missoni and Terraforma Festival, among others.
They taught at The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, NABA Nuova Accademia Belle Arti Milano, MADE Program and since 2022 they have been regularly teaching at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Parasite 2.0 were awarded the YAP Young Architects Program MAXXI in 2016.
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