The Italian design duo – and Designer of the Year in the 2021 Wallpaper* Design Awards – are among our featured visionaries in ‘5x5’, Wallpaper’s 25th anniversary project. They discuss their first year heading the GEO-Design master’s programme at Desig...
Formafantasma on the purpose of design school
There is, of course, the question of what GEO-Design students would do once they have completed the programme. In their conversation with Antonelli last year, Farresin and Trimarchi had expressed the hope that beyond traditional design studios, their graduates would find roles at NGOs, as activists, or in the research and development departments of companies. . Today, their answer is more open-ended.
‘But we are not here to professionalise people. The whole idea [of GEO-Design] is also to rethink the purpose of design school, right? And how we educate people for a changing world, and for a discipline that should change, though it’s not necessarily changing.’ Rather than shaping their students into a particular mould, to fill specific roles, Formafantasma want to nurture a flexible mindset.
‘We’re here to help students develop their critical attitude in approaching design, and we hope they will take what they have learned back to their own discipline of reference. That’s the only thing you can do as a responsible educator’Within their own practice, Farresin and Trimarchi have ably demonstrated the practical potential of this critical attitude.
Among them is an invitation from Finnish furniture manufacturer Artek to study the arboreal forests in Finland. ‘They are already virtuous by nature, but they don’t necessarily have an R&D department that thinks about the future of their company in relation to ecology,’ the duo explain. ‘So they opened up their doors fully to us. We looked at everything that they do and presented our own vision for their ecological development, so they can evolve their approach to forestry.
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