A Casa - Home

foto Bart Nijssen & Nichon Glerum

Cari Amici di Blog,

eccomi a casa, finalmente, ho un milione di storie da raccontarvi e cose da dividire con voi, ma oggi me la voglio prendere con calma.

Invece vi parlo di questo libro, un progetto dei mie due studenti olandesi, Bart Nijssen e Nichon Glerum, due designers con i quali ho collaborato piacevolmente.

La loro esperienza di vita, due anni di studio in un gruppo multiculturare, e' racchiusa in questo libro, che celebra lo spazio chiamato "casa".  Mi hanno chiesto di scrivere una prefazione, cosi sono anch'io nel libro. Lo considero un onore ed oggi.........che e' il mio compleanno, voglio dividere la gioia con tutti Voi.

Anna

TESTO della PREFAZIONE - scusate ma al momento l'ho solo in inglese

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I get to know a new group of Masters Students at the end of each summer; young international designers selected world wide. Sometimes they come with husbands, wives or young children. They travel light, carrying mostly a strong desire to learn and a wish to develop in different creative directions.

It is amazing how they re-arrange their lives in a new country in matter of days. A few clever vintage findings and their designer eye will results in spaces where they can work, relax and even party, without to compromise their culture or traditions.

At the Design Academy Eindhoven Interesting discussions and long hours of work are waiting ahead. Some moments of drama and a rollercoaster of creative pleasures combined with frustrations will scar their souls. They will combat daily in an imaginative field made of intensively high rewarding discoveries, multicultural discussions and designer’s dilemmas.

I will be present, fulfilling my role a bit tutorial, and a bit pastoral.

They reminds me of how much energy and courage it takes to leave everything behind. I understand them deeply, having made the same choice years ago, moving from Italy to the Netherlands.
This understanding will be our secret pact, we will unavoidably share the price of this decision.
It will be part of the struggle for becoming a better designer.