Craftsmanship and Technology
When a company working in an ancient tradition works with young students, the result is certainly contemporary and innovative. So it is for the projects created from the collaboration between IED and Battilossi, Turin's historic carpet gallery.
A Persian saying reminds us "My carpet is my home. More than a tent or dwelling for both the nomad and the villager, the carpet represents their roots, membership in a community. It marks the boundaries of spaces and reveals their use "inspired by these thoughts, the students at the course in interior design at the lED in Turin worked with Battilossi, which cherishes the ancient tradition of the carpet, to design a temporary display that can be easily assembled and dismantled to show the carpets in the collection in virtual spaces. Led by Adelaide Testa, coordinator of the course and co fourder of the Marcante-Testa architecture practice, and the teacher Giorgia Scoratt, the students started from historical research into ancient Berber and Tibetan carpets and weaving techniques. They then developed a digital weaving project performed with an unusual use of Microsoft Excel, in which the cells of the spreadsheet became figurative units resembling pixels in addition to designing the installations virtually, they created a 120 scale model of the underground level and the first floor of the Galleria Battilossi.
Maurizio Battilossi, founder and CEO of Battilossi, comments "Working with the young prople from IED has enabled us to renew a certain way of seeing things.
Carpets are a world that we know very well, but observing the genesis of these projects has certainly released new energies and resources for us too".
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Carolina Trabattoni
3. TEXTILE MATERIALITY BY ASJA STARACE
(IN THE BACKGROUND, PERFORATED WALLS FROM MUTINA
AND THE CACTUS FROM GUFRAM)