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Digital Primitive # 2
Based in Lisbon, the portuguese capital, Experimenta Design 09 is a ten year old biennial that has achieved international projection through the development of high-profile projects, as well as the partnerships and collaborations established with a network of institutions, agents and creative practitioners from all over the world.The Digital Primitive Event # 2 “Iterative Design” proposed by Caterina Tiazzoldi and Eduardo Benamor Duarte, is the second event of a sequence initially presented at the Giulio Capellini’s Young Talents selection for the Temporary Museum for New Design held in the Milan Design Week, April 2009.
In its Lisbon edition both myself and the architect and designer Caterina Tiazzoldi present the Installation Throw Felt Along Curve featuring the Porcupine chair and (please see attachment with press release). the Installation Onion Pinch featuring a selection of work from : Associated Fabrication; AUM STUDIO / Ed Keller – Carla Leitão ; Mark Bearak; Benamor Duarte Architecture ; Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation Columbia University ; Labdora / Peter Macapia ; Lúcio Santos ; Nuova Ordentra/ Caterina Tiazzoldi , SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merill, Supermanoeuvre / Dave Pigram- Iain Maxwell ; Tietz-Baccon / Erik Tietz - Andrew Baccon; Theverymany / Marc Fornes ; Z-A studio / Guy Zucker. (please see attachment with press release).

	Caterina Tiazzoldi/ Nuova Ordentra

	Digital Primitive # 2 Based in Lisbon, the portuguese capital, Experimenta Design 09 is a ten year old biennial that has achieved international projection through the development of high-profile projects, as well as the partnerships and collaborations established with a network of institutions, agents and creative practitioners from all over the world.The Digital Primitive Event # 2 “Iterative Design” proposed by Caterina Tiazzoldi and Eduardo Benamor Duarte, is the second event of a sequence initially presented at the Giulio Capellini’s Young Talents selection for the Temporary Museum for New Design held in the Milan Design Week, April 2009. In its Lisbon edition both myself and the architect and designer Caterina Tiazzoldi present the Installation Throw Felt Along Curve featuring the *Porcupine* chair and (please see attachment with press release). the Installation Onion Pinch featuring a selection of work from : Associated Fabrication; AUM STUDIO / Ed Keller – Carla Leitão ; Mark Bearak; Benamor Duarte Architecture ; Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation Columbia University ; Labdora / Peter Macapia ; Lúcio Santos ; Nuova Ordentra/ Caterina Tiazzoldi , SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merill, Supermanoeuvre / Dave Pigram- Iain Maxwell ; Tietz-Baccon / Erik Tietz - Andrew Baccon; Theverymany / Marc Fornes ; Z-A studio / Guy Zucker. (please see attachment with press release).
CONCEPT RESEARCH PROJECTS EVENTS PRESS PEOPLE CONTACT		*Onion Pinch* is an installation set in the Cais do Sodre Subway station, a major city transportation and following the concept of Digital Primitive emerging from the New York design and architecture scene. The design for the Installation is processed through the iteration and transformation of a same component - a sheet of cork arranged as an “onion ring”. The “onion”, is the result of the figure defined by the attachment with one bolt of the two ends of the perimeter. The repetition and manipulation of the configuration of the same element will illustrate and feature the work of several New York based, architects, designer, academic researchers and manufacturers.
S		*Porcupine* is an adaptable chair for hotel lobbies, restaurants and airports waiting areas, expressly designed for the reception space of the Altis Belém Hotel & Spa in Lisbon. Inspired from the fractal growth of a shell, it is realized in felt and fiber glass, representing Portugal’s historical relevance in the textile and plastic manufacturing. Its design has been generated with a parametric logic (deriving from a Grasshopper application) that allows to be reconfigured according to the room size and customer’s inputs.
	Caterina Tiazzoldi’s academic research in parametric design developed through the leadership of the Non-Linear Solutions Unit at Columbia University is once again, applied in the design of adaptable products such as the *Porcupine* chair and the *Onion Pinch* .
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