Istanze di design Fiumara d’Arte
Sicily International workshop for a contemporary design
Tusa (ME) 1-8 July 2012

Fiumara d'Arte Foundation, along with AIAC and Press/Tfactory, are pleased to announce the first international workshop of design from 1st to 8th July 2012 at museum-hotel Atelier sul Mare (Castel di Tusa, Messina).

Date: 1 – 8 July 2012
Language: Italian /English
Workshop level: Intermediate /Advanced
Workshop registration: 400 euros
Credits: 3 ECTS credits for 50 hours Partner: ISIA Florence
Who it’s for: Architecture graduates and young artists with the ability for the design.

Topic
Activate synergies between the ability to conceive a project, various cultural approaches, and the sicilian reality of Fiumara d' Arte. Redesign new spaces and associate disciplines (such as art, interior architecture, and design objects) with ad hoc design objects, through the realization of a room in the museum-hotel Atelier sul Mare.

Fiumara d’Arte Foundation and the design
After working for 30 years with international artists, searching a new ways of living through the contemporary art with the realization of unique rooms at the museum- hotel Atelier sul Mare, Fiumara d’Arte Foundation has decided to start a new path, drawing a new mission: no more a free individual creativity, but an exploration of the work of art as a collective process.
From this new concept, Fiumara d’Arte Foundation wants heading straight towards the contemporary design. The purpose is to create a permanent workshop where will be possible to experiment the design, through a selection and collaboration of local artisan companies, which means a mixture between the artistic process and the production of an object for a daily use. The idea is to institute a school able to develop a variety of signs that can be accepted to the public need.
Through this dialogue between the local artisan knowledge and the artistic “know how” of the artist-designer, those signs will be able to generate culture, to create new and unknown resources, giving an identity to Fiumara d’Arte district.