Albrto Meda
I like this webcompetition because it uses the feature
of Internet in an intelligent way
Internet is a media that erases space and time, changes
the perception of the distances, is a tool that enables
establishing relationships - though not physically -
among people; it is a means able to create a virtual
community organised against different scores of affinities
whose members share the same interests. In a community
where people share interests and passions there is an
exchange of individual intelligence, Designtope contributes
to the exchange of knowledge and enhances the collective
intelligence.
please inform us of from what viewpoint you have
selected the works
in particular for the Grand Prix and Excellent Work
Awards:
I made my choises on projects that contain an innovative
idea following the criteria of semplicity, lightness
in phisical and visual terms,the integration of function,
the use of new materials and contemporary technologies.
Your general message to the participants is also
appreciated:
To all the partecipants to this award I wish a future
of fantastic new projects becoming real physical objects
The objects circulate physically and metaphorically:
they are the glueing factor of humanity for people
identify themselves with the objects they own and
their history might be told through them; Objects
contain the collective intelligence of designers,
manufacturers, distributors and users
In a virtual community the Internet allows easier
and faster circulation of their thought and experience,
hence fosters the designing and manufacturing of objects
that result from greater sharing (of thought and experience).
These aspects are once again 'intangible' but objects
are full of tangible qualities that stimulate all
of our five senses whereby we judge and relate to
them. And here virtuality gives rise to a twofold
interpretation: on the one hand; virtuality is a friend,
on the other it might become a foe by making us lose
contact with physicality/reality.
