oggetti socievoli
Online platform open to people to send their ‘sociable object’ during social isolation due to covid-19
concept and design TEAM: prisca Arosio & Vittoria Rossi
IT and marketing team: Bobby born / Bornagraphique
WEbsite: oggettisocievoli.club
2020-ongoing
Oggetti Socievoli (English translated as Sociable Objects) is an open platform where anyone could have share an home objects that have been either discovered, rediscovered or reinterpreted during social isolation due to the current pandemic.
Social isolation may negatively affect our mind and body. Since the first days, we feel fear, sadness, apathy and boredom. Being aware and appreciative of our home surroundings helps to overtake those feelings.
The project directs people to think about their home objects, and share what it means to them. We believe there is a European sense of urgency to change people’s perspective and be more appreciative of what we have and what has been discovered within our homes during quarantine.
THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS A BOOK PUBLICATION OF WHITCH THE PROCEEDINGS WILL BE DONATED TO CHARITIES TO SUPPORT ITALIAN COMMUNITIES heavily HIT BY PANDEMIC (banco di SOLIDARIETà di bergamo).
HOME-OBJECTS SUBMISSIONS
The objects that inhabit our houses have now ‘new’ meanings and roles in everyday life, in a certain sense they strongly start to entertain us and keep us company. They are for example:
Discovered objects, hidden behind the bookcase or in the old attic, their existence was ignored (to whom do they belong?)
Re-discovered objects, for laziness or lack of time we ignored their utility, leaving them in corner of the room (now I have learned how to use it!)
Re-interpreted objects, which for new needs become useful for other purposes (who would have thought?)
The project aims to give life to a story made of images of those objects with new meaning and role in our long days.
HOW ARE home-OBJECTS MADE?
The campaign #howitsmade #whomadethis in collaboration with @humans_of_italy_business wants to give attention to two aspects of the production of HOME-objects (Oggetti socievoli / Sociable objects).
We will look at objects from two aspects:
How are objects made? So the work process and phases to make an object.
Who are the people making objects? So the people itself as artisans.
Oggetti Socievoli will look and show you the process of making objects while Humand of Italy Business will get to know the artisans and people who make the objects.
We published the book of oggetti socievoli called “The season of home objects” in december 2020 and we are working on the possibility to have a wall exhibition.
The book and the wall exhibition will be a collection of all images and text we received in these months. the book called “La stagione degli oggetti di casa | the season of home objects” in december 2020.
The book is curated by Prisca arosio and vittoria rossi and essays by Bianca Stoppani, Bobby Born, Brendan Cormier, Lara Debie, Marco Trussardi, Matilde Vaghi.
The book showcases the participatory project’s photos and texts and artisans' production process of household objects. oggetti socievoli is also joined by artists, writers, designers, academics in a social study of home objects in relation to people’s lockdown experiences.
It contains compared and inspiring ideas and design concepts to stimulate the next generation of home-made activities. The content of this book aims at creating a common ground where similarities and differences among countries as well as its contexts come together harmoniously.
WE ARE NOW EXPLORING the TOPICS OF HOME, OBJECTS and lockdown THOUGHT A OF SERIES OF interviews called ‘a CONVERSATIONS WITH PROFESSIONALS’ hosted by Prisca arosio.
Instagram oggetti_socievoli:
La stagione degli oggetti di casa | The season of home objects
Curated by Prisca Arosio and Vittoria Rossi
Possibile layout of Sociable objects Wall