Tamar Shafrir co-curation of "Not For Sale"

Tutor documentation

Tamar Shafrir, tutor at finished Temporary Programme Materialisation in Art and Design (2015-2017), along with Joseph Grima, curated the Design Academy Eindhoven’s show “Not For Sale” for Salone di Mobile 2018 (April 17-22), that offered discreet interventions in everyday commercial environments in a humble neighbourhood.

It’s a challenge in any design week fanfare to sustain people’s attention so serving up a difficult-to-find, dispersed series of small interventions into existing commercial establishments sounds like a crazy and bound-to-fail idea.

But also brilliant, brave and achingly authentic. Visitors who found the projects – all modest disturbances into reality - beheld the true value and power of a design that acknowledges its context by respectfully embracing local relevance and building on what already exists. (article by Gabrielle Kennedy)

Read on: http://www.damnmagazine.net/2018/04/27/authenticity-win-milan/