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Open Design Italia, an initiative dedicated to the promotion of self-produced and small series design since 2010, is an international competition and exhibition-market exploring the field of self-production at both the national and the international level. Selfproduction is a new approach to design, in which the creative activity is directly linked to the production one. It is aimed at specific types of projects, in which designers conceive and determine all the production and distribution phases of the product.
The event takes place in Trento, at the Trento Fiere from 29th to 31st May 2015. Trentino-Alto Adige, fertile territory of initiatives that enhance creativity in young people and small medium-sized enterprises which represent the right blend of craftsmanship and industry, mirrors the interests and objectives of this edition which aims at promoting networking of skills and project development capabilities between young designers, institutions and small medium-sized enterprises that express the best of made in Italy.
During the three days of the event, Open Design Italia will promote a program of debates, business to business meetings and training workshops which will act as a focus point of the event, thus providing a series of services orientated to the designerparticipants with the objective of improving their activities and increasing their business contacts. Through the competition awards and the consolidated partnerships with internat ional ins t i tut ions , Open Des ign I tal ia cont inues i t s renowned internationalization program that enables the competition winners to gain wider visibility and the opportunity to take part in other events and exhibitions around Europe.
With this call for applications, which focuses on small-series product design, Open Design Italia 2015 aims to place the emphasis not only on the designers themselves, but also on the territory in which they operate and on the whole production chain.When selecting, Open Design Italia applies the following criteria:
- Projects in which the synergy between the designer and the local craftsman/company clearly emerges;
- Objects that have been completely produced by the designer, who is the main actor in the whole production process, from the project to the final creation;
- Products that have been created through the digital fabrication methods and related services such as fab-labs and innovative companies that provide intermediary and consultancy services in the transfer of technology and that apply innovative techniques that address local and global issues;
- Objects that have been completely produced by the craftsman, who is the main actor of the whole production process, from the project to the final creation.
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