After ADI Design Museum, the exhibition dedicated to young Italian Design traveled to the HKDI Gallery, Hong Kong. Here, a new configuration of the collection of works revealed the flexibility of the body of meanings embedded in the exhibition’s concept.

ITALY: A New Collective Landscape is an overview of one hundred young Italian designers under-35 from which the overall image emerges as a plural and feasible model of society, where the notion of commoning draws on a myriad of new negotiations. Virtuous ways of thinking, being and producing, committed to giving back more than they take. Considering ourselves as part of the web of life, in which human and non-human, geological, biological and technological agents are interconnected, can design culture approach the notion of radical interdependence as a new field of action? Can design practice come up with concrete proposals to become a tool for social, ecological and political transition, producing workable visions aimed at designing kinder relationships? Curated by Angela Rui with Elisabetta Donati de Conti and Matilde Losi, the configuration of this exhibition highlights congruences with respect to three design virtues – systemic, relational and regenerative – knowing that this landscape could be reconfigured in a myriad of new readings and associations.
  

For more info and credits, please visit the previous post about the exhibition at the ADI Design Museum.