Photo credit: Luisa Bocchietto
H20 - New Scenarios For Survival
March 8-April 27th 2008
March 8th opens an Italian exhibit consisting of posters by Italian graphic designers who tackle the political, social, and environmental aspects of water. This thought provoking project will be exhibited at the Design Exchange and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
Posters represent feasible and realizable proposals and projects, for the collection of water, its purification, transportation, distribution, recycling process and climate change. The exhibit explores issue of fairness regarding the distribution of water and a democratic approach to water resources. Also explored are those who have interpreted the lack and relative waste as an opportunity to market bottled water as a product.
This exhibit explores the infinite points of view from which this fluid and ever-changing element can be encountered: formless, odourless, tasteless and yet a primary nutrient without which life could not exist.
This highly regarded work will subsequently travel to Spain and be featured in the 2008 World’s Fair. The exhibit is curated by architect Roberto Marcatti and supported by the Italian Chamber of Commerce, Enwave Energy Corporation, the Italian Cultural Institute-Consulate General of Italy. Azure Magazine is recognized as a media sponsor.
March 7th Press Conference at noon followed by a Curatorial Lecture at 1pm
H20 is part of digiftest, a three-day biennial International Festival of Design and Media Culture presented by Design Exchange in partnership with Harbourfront Centre and Ontario Science Centre. Digifest runs from March 27th-29th.
For more information please visit: The Design Exchange
-Joanne Molina










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