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 Illy Espresso International CompetitionThe espresso-coffee moment is a frame - a real break - inthe film of everyday life and is common to millions of people all over the world. Drinking an espresso-coffee is a modern - here and now - version of a ritual that has an age-old history and that each time acquires a special space-time value. Today, the locations in which this ritual is consumed (in a museum, in the old centre of a European city, on a boat sailing upriver, on an American strip...) are countless, as are the ways people enjoy a cup of coffee: alone, as a couple, in a group, or in a crowd. In the street, in a bar, at an airport counter, in the foyer of a museum... illycaffè and Domus are promoting a competition of ideas open to young designers, artists and architects all over the world aged 35 and under. The competition seeks to discover new ways of enjoying an espresso-coffee and it is meant as an opportunity to discuss the presence of "Break-spaces and dialogue" in modern urban life. It will promote and study the espresso-coffee space as a new and important molecule in public space and social interaction. It will spread and strengthen a ritual that - if treated carefully and intelligently - can increase the opportunities for exchange and dialogue in cities that are increasingly privatised and divided into specialised enclosures. Source: www.domusweb... (726) |
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