Faculty and students of the Department of Design and Architecture Fundamentals, as well as the Department of Architectural Constructions, the Institute of Architecture and Design, Lviv Polytechnic National University, participate in the annual Salone del Mobile – International Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy, which this year takes place from April 16 to 21.
The event takes place within the framework of cooperation between the Institute of Architecture and Design, Lviv Polytechnic National University, and the Milano makers and Vitaworld associations, as well as the public organization VitaUkr, Milan.
The theme of the presented works is «Emergency Design» – environmental design in the context of disasters and cataclysms. Of course, the students focused on the topic of war – a painful and relevant topic to all Ukrainians. The slogan of the student works became the words «My land» – long-suffering, mutilated by bombs and shells, covered in ruins, sown with mines.
Someday we will return here to our liberated lands.
- How will we reorganize our lives there?
- What will we build our houses from and make furniture from?
- What will we warm up with?
Polytechnic students tried to answer these questions. Their vision was presented in a number of projects:
- universal modular furniture and kitchen systems made of recycled materials;
- modular school made of wood;
- heating systems from used metal barrels for fuel;
- temporary housing on pontoons and salt mines for military rehabilitation;
- a table made of a reinforced concrete panel from a bomb-destroyed kindergarten from the Donetsk region;
- reed and cane furniture;
- armchairs with cushions filled with reed fluff.
The students presented symbolic installations on the theme of returning home, as well as graphic projects and animated videos on the topics of children’s mental health in the conditions of war, the Chernobyl disaster and the mining of our land. We will definitely talk about each of these projects separately...
The program includes not only the presentation of works. Faculty and students will visit the Salone del Mobile.Milano2024 contemporary furniture exhibitions, the Fondacione Prada Center for Contemporary Art, as well as the Milan Polytechnic and other notable locations in the city.
We wish our students success, and everyone – a useful and pleasant pastime!
