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I am designing an installation for the non-profit organisation UK Hand Knitting to tour around the country to help raise awareness of the versatility of knitting and encourage people to pick up the hobby.

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With Cambio, at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, FormaFantasma lay bare the wood industry to transform it into a perspective of sustainable development. In this great exhibition (opens March 4 until May 17), design appears as never before as a tool for research to develop fundamental knowledge towards a new production awareness. And a circular economy.
There is an intense, intoxicating scent in the FormaFantasma studio in Amsterdam. It smells like soil, mixed with the scent of trees. And there are plants: many, beautiful and luxuriant. Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, perhaps to live up to the name of their studio, move in this environment as ethereal presences. They speak quietly, with respect, to collaborators who are a mix of nationalities and skills.

Exhibitions, shop windows and a Master at the Design Academy: it's a golden moment for FormaFantasma

It is a golden moment for the Italian duo and their studio. Formafantasma have in fact just signed the exhibition design of Caravaggio and Bernini show at the Rijksmuseum. They will take care of the windows of the Rinascente at the Fuorisalone in Milan. And in September they will start as directors of a Master in GeoDesign at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.

But the reason to visit them in their Amsterdam studio is to talk about the thinking behind Cambio, the exhibition that will open at the Serpentine in London on March 4th. Which could well be one of those exhibitions that leave a mark.

Cambio: an exhibition by FormaFantasma at the Serpentine in London

Cambio lays bare the wood industry from multiple points of view: economic, political, geographic, historical. And it promotes a change of pace starting from the awareness of an unsustainable situation.

The title Cambio is in fact a single word meaning two things. It is the exhortation towards a transformation of the way we design around us. Starting from a true, honest and informed listening of nature and leveraging on a knowledge that is obtained only through multi-disciplinarity. But Cambium is also the layer of cells between the bark and the inside of the plant that helps it communicate with the outside. It is thanks to Cambium that wood - the armor that some species developed following climate shocks - was created.

The complete interview with FormaFantasma will be published on INTERNI in April

The full story on the exhibition and the interview with FormaFantasma will be published on INTERNI in April. But a few words are right to spend it now, a few days before the opening of the exhibition.

Because Cambio represents, I believe, an important moment in the development of an informed ecological awareness. But also a programmatic manifesto for what design is today.

The history of landscape and its economic exploitation

Cambio is an encyclopedic exhibition, designed to transform those who study it. It talks about the history of the landscape, explaining how today's forests are artificial results.created to support an economic system that is now collapsing. And what enormous weight, over the centuries, the wood industry has had: so many empires have been made and undone due to the availability or lack of forests. Cambio also tells about the development of an ecological awareness. And it proves that scholars were already aware of a potential system collapse in the 19th century. In fact, Cambio is a story of man's exploitation of nature, which began when the animism of pagans was banned by monotheism and perpetrated to the present day. Not surprisingly, the exhibition ends with a monologue of a tree - written by Emanuele Coccia. Which is a bit like an exhortation to consider forests as something alive, to be treated with respect.

How sustainable is wood from sustainable forests?

Cambio also provides some answers to complicated questions. Like: how sustainable is wood from sustainable forests? "A growing tree retains co2", explains Andrea Trimarchi. "When the tree is cut, it stops holding it. If it is replaced by another tree it is good. However, cutting a tree before the moment in which it has stored the maximum of CO2 and replacing it with a younger one means not to make the most of its capacity. This must be calculated in a time that varies from species to species and that for oak is 120-150 years. No forest ever lasts this long today, but these are the recommended times for sustainable development. In the same way, every wooden object should ideally last more or less as if not more than the life of the tree from which it was produced. If the waste times of the wood are faster than the growth of the trees and if the wood used to produce objects is burned instead of recycled ahead of time, there can be no sustainable balance".

No moralism or treehugging

There is no moralism or trehugging in Cambio. And the "emotional" side of the exhortation to change (carried out through images, smells, sounds, objects and installations) is not to be considered easy entertaintment. It is, on the contrary, a tool chosen to better explain the message of the exhibition. Which is scientific, based on choral research, carried out through interviews and projects together with scholars from various sectors.

Cambio indicates a way forward towards a circular economy

Design is at the heart of this very dense network of connections. And underlining ts key role as research facilitator and communicator for the diffusion and implementation of change is, in my opinion, Cambio's life-saving message. Because it is difficult for a company not to consider what the impact of research such as that carried out with Cambio could be on its business model. Everyone wants to become sustainable but it is not easy to understand how to do it. And with Cambio, the FormaFantasma indicate a possible way.

A Renaissance approach to research

The path that Cambio proposes is one that comes from the analysis of the entire cycle of materials - from extraction to processing to production. And that continues by innovating in a multi-disciplinary way. What Cambio indicates is in fact an approach to the search for an almost Renaissance mold in direct opposition to the hyperspecialization of the Anglo-Saxon way which is the most popular. Cambio says: let's not waste time with "sustainable products", let's think about transforming the system. Let's do it with knowledge but also with imagination.

All this does not mean giving space to the full-fledged designer and leaving the experts behind. On the contrary, it means using design to identify problem areas and faciliate the passage of contents, and their analysis.

The Master in GeoDesign directed by FormaFantasma at the Eindhoven Design Academy

This is the process that FormaFantasma will also use in the Master in GeoDesign they direct and which starts in September at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.

The aim of the course of study will be to create collective research content made available to everyone. From which to start individual searches. Because, the FormaFantasma explain, "often the important issues are so complex that they become paralyzing. And it is not easy to understand how to transform recommendations into solutions applicable in the real world".

photocredit: Geoffrey Cottenceau

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Why Cambio, by FormaFantasma, is a must see exhibition (at the Serpentine in London from March 4)

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With Cambio, at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, FormaFantasma lay bare the wood industry to transform it into a perspective of sustainable development. In this great exhibition (opens March 4 until May 17), design appears as never before as a tool for research to develop fundamental knowledge towards a new production awareness.

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Home / designer / Marijn van der Poll / Do hit chair - unshaped With the hammer provided and your own resources you shape the metal box into whatever you choose it to be. After a few minutes or hours of hard work you become the co-designer of Do hit.

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Designing an Instillation to encourage conversation about male mental health

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Designing an Instillation to encourage conversation about male mental health

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Zanotta SELLA Stool by Achille + Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, 1957

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Zanotta SELLA Stool by Achille + Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, 1957

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check out the opposite of comfort but lots or wriggle

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Sketchaday - always enjoyable skills refresher for drawing tips

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Thumbnails, multiple iterations, sketching out your presentation

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Thumbnails, multiple iterations, sketching out your presentation

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I highly recommend sketching out compositions and ideas for layout of your communication - the same as any design project - who is the audience, what do I want them to know

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Thumbnail sketches - Architecture Daily Sketches