Workshop Love Difference Products

Love Difference products. How and why?
Four meetings in order to reflect on the relation between Love Difference and the production world.
Why Love Difference, a network working on the interculturality within the Mediterranean area, has decided to develop products?
How can we translate the Love Difference identity in a series of actual objects?
Which elements must characterize these products?
We have tried to answer through the elaboration of a model suitable to all the stages of a product life: from the design to the production, from the communication to the use, passing through the distribution.
A model, a hypothesis of creative strategy in order to help us conceiving products able to carry the values of Love Difference.
We have verified on the field the effectiveness of the model thinking up some potential products to be developed: a wine, a fragrance, a recipe book and a travel guide.

Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto
October 2005

Sara Bertagnolio (Love Difference group Biella - designer), Filippo Fabbrica (Love Difference coordinator), Daniele Garella (Cittadellarte - Communication Office), Victor A. Munoz (Unidee - artist in residence), Vita Piccolomini (Cittadellarte - designer), Armona Pistoletto (Cittadellarte - Production Office responsible)
With the valuable collaboration of Luisa Bocchietto (Serralunga - ADI)


Sharing / Relation
Improving the world through exchange and relation
Network / Association

Art / Interdisciplinarity
Creative processes for the common good

Research / Dialogue
Curiosity and penchant for the dialogue with the “other”
Interculturality

Interactive / Participative / Communicative
Socially responsible for conceiving, carrying out and being suitable to meet a social need
Attractive
Gainful to economically support the Love Difference projects


A wine to tell and represent the Love Difference values

Wine: a common heritage of the Mediterranean

A wine presented and distributed in special occasions and places within the Love Difference network

Collecting different grape varieties from various Mediterranean countries, collaborating with the Universities

A symbolic vineyard where to attend and follow the project


To communicate the Love Difference values through the sense of smell

What's the fragrance of the values?

A theoretical research with Lorenzo Dante Ferro, Mastro Profumerie, to think up a fragrance to represent the different cultures of the Mediterranean

Carrying out by artisans d'excellence


Social interaction from the cooking to the meal: not only recipes for 6 servings but recipes to be cooked by 6 people

Cultures meeting around a table

Food and culture - a research within the Mediterranean area

A new form for this common object to forward the idea of interactivity


To stimulate the on field acknowledgement of the Love Difference activities, projects and places

The tourist becomes a potential cultural activator

Jointly conceived by the Love Difference network

Open to contributions by the public

Addressed to a responsible tourism

Appealing for a peculiar kind of tourists

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da cose nasce cosa...
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