Italian design studio Joe Velluto has created Adesign, an “anti-design” manifesto that propounds the creation of dysfunctional and useless objects.
Just try and sit on this chair
Reading the phrase “dysfunctional objects” invariably calls to mind Chindogus, those Japanese inventions that pretend to be practical but actually have totally contradictory results: they’re useless, impractical and a lot of fun. However, the only thing the products created by this design studio have in common with Chindogus is their absurd appearance.
The Italian products are less fun and were not created to make people laugh, rather they are meant to embody an anti-design manifesto called Adesign, whose slogan could well be, “if design follows function, Adesign follows dysfunction”.
They produce those objects the world is already filled with – clocks, chairs, coat stands. .. - but voluntarily declare them useless in order to reflect a critical vision of design. They want to do away with the concept of “designer” items, with these informal, radical, experimental, and useless products.
The products are on display as part of an exhibit called “UseLess is More”, a play on words based on the phrase “less is more”.
But this is far from a novel idea, it could be considered a new twist on the Impossible Objects created by Jacques Carelman, that French artist who developed a series of products that very subtly fused together logic with the absurd.
We just hope Ikea doesn’t start copying these useless designs. If so, they’ll surely turn our homes into absurd and impossible places, albeit at a good price.
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