Eco-Energy of Subtle Design

Abstract

In the twenty-first century, accumulating new things generally does not offer new opportunities but instead creates new problems. What moves design today towards its responsibilities? The implications in ecological terms, the weight of this in the disruption of biological cycles and its green footprint condition and sharpen the challenge in rethinking the relationship with nature that design faces in giving new awareness to its work. This exhibition brings together experiences of point elements that take on the character of subtle design. These are studies aimed at recovering all forms of energy from the involvement of artefacts about the environment. In both the scientific and technological fields, some research is already yielding promising results through symbiotic properties with natural phenomena from which energy can be drawn, provided one operates with a soft attitude. It is a matter of activating new sensitivities that, starting from sensory perception, lead to greater attention to detail. An invitation to the wonder of subtle, imperceptible, evanescent, fleeting, invisible and impalpable things that contribute to changing our conceptions and actions, making us more aware and responsible for more human relations among humans and osmotic with nature, respecting it and exchanging new forms of energy with it. A new course can be charted by integrating all human actions with the phenomenologies of nature using a ‘subtle’ contribution. A fulcrum that acts as a flywheel for proposing values and knowledge that penetrates deep inside without intrusiveness, making new knowledge of new behaviour.