Moulding Tradition

In 2009 Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin graduated from Contextual Design (then called IM) with the project Moulding Tradition, which can be read as a comment on culture as something fixed. Instead, the two designers made a plea to embrace change. Ever since, Trimarchi and Farresin have continued to work on experimental material investigations and the research of topics such as the relationship between tradition and local culture. In perceiving their role as a bridge between craft, industry, object and user, they are interested in forging links between their research-based practice and a wider design industry.

Their work has been presented and published internationally and museums such as New York's MoMA, London’s Victoria and Albert, New York's Metropolitan Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Stedelijk’s-Hertogenbosch, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MUDAC Lausanne, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in North Carolina, the MAK Museum in Vienna, Serpentine Gallery London.

Since 2020, Formafantasma leads the MA Geo Design at DAE