IN Residence Workshop #15 | Chromatic Alphabets

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WORKSHOP #15
CHROMATIC ALPHABETS

Designers-Tutors:
AUDREY LARGE + JORGE PENADES

When:
SEPTEMBER 13th-16th, 2021

In collaboration with:
Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (Italy)

Theme:
CHROMATIC ALPHABETS
When we are exposed to the influence of an external color, we create harmony and balance by creating an inner complementary color.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The daily experience of color is pervasive and uninterrupted: each presence – material and immaterial – communicates through its own personal chromatic register, expressing itself through a language that can be understood in both objective and subjective ways.
Color, in itself, is a complex “event” characterized by a certain rate of abstraction and enigmaticity, which lends itself to being critically explored with the aim of experimenting with new hypotheses of expression and unprecedented frontiers of application.

According to Wittgenstein, one cannot refer to a precise criterion for classifying something as “color” except through the tool of language, of the articulation of words; if this point of view is shared, it may be of interest to attribute to the discourse on color the rank of an exercise to reveal its symbolic vocations, to release the other (and unexpressed) potential energies of chromatism.

What new horizons of meaning can we attribute to color through dialogue, conversation? What new color paradigms can we develop using design thinking? What kind of expressive alphabets can we give consistency?

Course leader

Audrey Large + Jorge Penades

Target group

Participation is open to design professionals, students of any level and enthusiasts in the field of design practice. People who are interested in pioneering design research and crossovers between design and other social, scientific and philosophical areas of interest. All participants must be over 18 years of age and have written and oral fluency in the English language.

Course aim

During the period of the “CHROMATIC ALPHABETS” workshop, the Designers/Tutors and the curators of the project are the leaders in an experience of total collaboration, a discussion that continues beyond the work sessions and extends into moments of leisure time. Dialogue and interaction, together with hands-on activities of experimentation, are the prioritized tools with which the workshop delves into the creative process.

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