Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature
3rd December - 6th December '08
Design Miami
NE 39th Street and 1st Court, Miami, FL.
For the first time, Design Miami/ is curating an exhibition of contemporary and historical design, intended to compliment and unify the array of participants in this year’s event through a single compelling theme.
The exhibition, entitled,“Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature” embraces the irresistible power of natural beauty, while seeking to embody and celebrate today’s heightened creative freedom.
In recent years the field of design has opened to new forms of expression. Innovation and revivals in production methods are encouraging designers to create super-organic forms that were once difficult to sustain within the mass-market factory system. At the same time, numerous radical or craft-based twentieth-century designers who were once considered on the fringe of the mainstream are finding renewed appreciation.
Presenting an exuberant, witty and inspiring celebration of the natural world reflected through design objects, the exhibition brings to light the relationship between the natural and the manmade responding as much to new directions in design as to current social issues.
