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Enzo Mari for the West African asylum seekers working at CUCULA, the Refugees Company for Crafts and Design in Berlin, 2018

«The 19 ‘do-it-yourself’ furniture designs, which the Italian Designer Enzo Mari published in his book ‘Autoprogettazione’ in 1974, marks a milestone in the contemporary design history. Positioned in contrast to the formalism at the time, Enzo Mari suggests the democratisation of design and creating a provoking alternative to the capitalist paradigm of mass consumption. Building your own furniture, when required, that’s the idea.40 years later, Enzo Mari grants the team of CUCULA the rights to use his designs, to build and further develop his furniture. This is how in the CUCULA manufacture, Enzo Mari’s ideas meet the ideas of young refugees, now engaging with their personal stories to form new perspectives. Enzo Mari’s plans, irrespective of language barriers, present an opportunity to build high quality, sustainable and beautiful furniture with simple tools and little know-how when it comes to carpentry. By doing so, a process of learning and reflection develops, which calls on the individual creative power. In this creative argument, the design classics meet with the stories of their builder. Design as a performative force, which develops with those stories, to develop a new identity. Design becomes intimately connected with sustainability and social responsibility.» – CUCULA, Refugees Company for Crafts and Design

«Design has something to do with utopia... I want to create models for a different society.» – Enzo Mari

(images: Enzo Mari, Autoprogettazione?, Corraini Edizioni, Mantova, 2017)

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Primo giorno dell’ultimo blocco.

guarda,capisci,taglia,incolla,avvita,scartavetra,colora.

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Cucula – Young Refugees Create Design Furniture 

We recently came across the inspiring association Cucula, which is bringing together young refugees in Berlin and teaching them how to make furniture. What a great way to use Enzo Mari’s designs and giving them a meaningful purpose!

Find out more about Cucula on their website.

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