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Autoprogettazione Revisited

Easy-to-Assemble Furniture byEnzo Mari and Invited Guestsis a group exhibition that tracesthe infl uence of Italian designerEnzo Mari’s 1970’s project forself-made furniture. Using the AAGallery as a project space, tenartists and designers werecommissioned to respond to Mari’sinstruction-based furniture planswith their own set of instructions.In a text accompanying theinstructions, Mari writes that‘anyone, apart from factories andtraders, can use the designs tomake them by themselves’. Seenoriginally by Mari as a means forthe self-fabrication of qualitydesign objects, Autoprogettazionecontinues today as an expressionof collaborative design thinkingmade topical by a recent proliferation of digital technologies.

3 to 27 October 2009

AA GalleryArchitectural Associationaaschool.ac.uk