"Design.Ve" is the name under which our Design Biennial was born in 2016, and then continued with the second edition in 2018 before evolving into the current and final name "Venice Design Biennial".
In 2018, Design.Ve brought to Venice a group exhibition inside a Venetian palace and 19 collateral events distributed throughout the city centre.
The curatorial theme of the main group show, "Design After Darwin. Adapted to Adaptability", aimed to showcase design’s ability to be receptive to alternative uses as the function multiplies and stratifies, contrary to a notion of any singular predetermined use.
In a society where functions continuously evolve, design becomes an active component in the transformation of everyday life, capable of simultaneously reinventing the pre-existing imaginings of the past and interacting with the unpredictable paths of the future.
Within this were four concepts through which to interpret and comprehend the works, each proposing alternative approaches to design and establishing diverse forms of interaction between object and user: multiplicity, reconfiguration, reuse, transfiguration.
Read or download the digital catalogue of the second edition of the Venice Design Biennial here.