Protect me from where I live. Dall’abitazione all’abito. Forme e figure del rifugio contemporaneo ovvero breve storia dell’emergenza nel terzo millennio

From dwelling to clothes. Forms and figures of contemporary shelter to tell the story of emergency in third millennium and the birth of new small houses. The reference is immateriality and mobility, which is a distinctive feature of the contemporary world in its progress towards objects bearing the mark of transition and transformation that can be traced back to word of lightness, instability, provisional character, disassembly, adaptability, recycling. To express with poetic, critical, polemical and playful solutions. With all that this implies, including the portability of things and their consumption. Working between micro-architecture and macro-design without combining the term architecture with the term forever, convinced that the lowest level of stability of things is a demand of the contemporary world, and that the temporary, a genetic characteristic of everything is precarious, makes the project more apt to come to terms with the resistance of the real world than any form of permanence. Favoring the tendency of individual to move towards new models of everyday existence. With increasingly evident intertwinings of body, architecture and city. In the contest of a crossover vision that includes art, landscape, design, fashion. Disrupting certain familiar oppositions like: interior/exterior, large/small, absolute/relative, temporary/lasting, light/heavy, present/absent. Using new materials and new codes. With actions producing forms and spaces. To offer people new forms of belonging and to communicate other modes of uses of houses and things. Because, in the end, that which comes to life on the margins can became fundamental.