The urban jungle setting of an abandoned military hospital seems an unlikely location for design projects that address mental health, cultural identity and the climate emergency, but Alcova surprises once again. An independent platform for freethinking, Alcova was established by Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima back at Milan Design Week...
There’s a recipe for creating a show with so many layers. ‘Our networks are complementary,’ says Ciuffi, founder of Studio Vedèt. ‘Joseph [founder of Space Caviar] is more tied to institutional realities such as, academies and schools, I’m more in contact with galleries and companies of small and great importance.’
Alcova has evolved as an experimental ground for design since it launched, and ‘in a spontaneous and surprising way this community has become bigger and bigger, yet manages to preserve its original nature’, muses Ciuffi. There’s a couple of new elements for 2022, like ‘Curated by Alcova’, where Ciuffi and Grima ‘decided to curate a small selection of international exhibitors that we support, and give them a free stage’.
‘There is a lot of toxic masculinity in many military institutions,’ comments Julius Værnes Iversen, creative director and curator at Tableau, on the coincidence that such an emotive display is situated inside an ex-military location and former mental institution. ‘The narrative of “Confession” is in general created in order to change our society towards a more open-minded community.’, a show that celebrates and platforms the diverse talent of those who work in design in the nation.
Meanwhile, our relationship with the end of life is questioned too at ‘Urne.rip’, a project that rethinks the concept of loss and void through cinerary urns designed by artists in abstract shapes and materials. Clever solutions around energy and natural resources are found at ‘The Solar Energy Kiosk’ presented by, a joyful pop-up designed by Rotterdam-based design studio Cream on Chrome.
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