Gruppo 9999 "Vegetable Garden House" proposal (1971), Emanuela Ascari "Ciò che è vivo-culture tour" (2015)
In 1972, Gruppo 9999 won the Museum of Modern Art's "Competition for Young Designers" award for these five sketches of their Vegetable Garden House, which they first build in 1971 inside Spacetime Electronic, their infamous dance club in Firenze, IT. Black and white photographs of these eco-minded architects' vegetable garden house were presented in MoMA's "Italy: The Domesticated Landscape" (1972), that era's unprecedented survey of avant-garde Italian architecture and design.
This accordian-fold artist's book documents Emanuela Ascari's two-month journey through Italy in 2015 to meet organic farmers whose efforts actively perpetuate food sovereignty, biodiversity, and soil vitality. Keen to develop local economies based on real needs, these farmers perpetuate practices and knowledges, as a form of resistance to counteract the degeneration of the food, earth and man perpetrated by industrial agriculture.
This accordian-fold artist's book documents Emanuela Ascari's two-month journey through Italy in 2015 to meet organic farmers whose efforts actively perpetuate food sovereignty, biodiversity, and soil vitality. Keen to develop local economies based on real needs, these farmers perpetuate practices and knowledges, as a form of resistance to counteract the degeneration of the food, earth and man perpetrated by industrial agriculture.
Copyright 2017 Sue Spaid