In this post we try to summarize the discussion in the meeting of Friday, September 16th, about the results of the participants’ personal researches. The first …

The Open Design School is featured in the current edition of the "Il Giornale Dell'Arte".Click on the link below to read the complete version online – only in I…

Our workshop ended with our Projects Review night, an exhibition that temporarily opened the doors of the future building of the Open Design School to the commu…

Photos by Fedele Congedo   …

The analysis of the first Open Design School Workshop Matera in the detailed report of the Trmtv.it.   …

Mondi possibili. Appunti di teoria del design declines and proposes a paradigm able to open a perspective towards which to converge practices and theories of th…

The story of his graphic design. The passion for slowness, time, popular art, the cicada in the chest, the suspension, the room of the nicknames, the places, th…

Today our Scientific Director Paolo Cascone was an interview by Raffaella Catalano, from Radio Radiosa, about the concept of the Open Design School an…

Official kick-off!   The working group, comprised of 15 locals and international participants, met for the first time in the reading room of th…

The voice of Edward Tresoldi. The talk at the Open Design School. The steps of the work flow, the team, the art and archeology, the handmade aspect, the emotion…

We meet Salvatore and Oriana. The art, the fraud. Dreaming tools, creating simulacra, becoming a platform, losing control. The care, the U-Topia. We work on th…

Week 03. Take-off. Begin to define thematic clusters within the group and the first prototypes are presented. The projects are discussed in the presence of the…

Week 04. Our guest this Friday is Enzo Acito, Councillor of the City Strategic Plan of Matera, along with Paolo Verri, director general Matera Basilicata …

Matera and design have gone hand in hand for a very long time now, its roots set in a relationship between the area and its craftsmen that was already evident i…

Directed by Luca Acito and Costantino Rizzuti in collaboration with Open Lab Matera   LocationLe botteghe (Piccianello Market), Via Marconi, Matera …

Directed by Fedele Congedo   PlaceLe botteghe (Piccianello Market), Via Marconi, Matera ParticipantsThe public at large, members of associations, local …

This workshop is open to university and high school students, to craftsmen and the public at large. Its main objective is to create prototypes of a series of so…

The workshop, open to university and high school students as well as craftsmen and the general public, aims to self-construct the installation design in 1 to 1 …