The Exhibits

• Saper fare
• POLI.design
• Cersaie Downtown

Saper Fare

Cersaie, area 48

In the external area 48 at Cersaie, 4 exhibitions dedicated to young designers will be held in a 2,000 sqm green area.
The guiding thread of the whole project, beyond the specific exhibits, is the “workshop”: knowing how to do one’s job well. For the past few years Confindustria Ceramica has been inviting young designers and architects to work concretely on the issues of the town and the territory, because when we talk about living, from homes to infrastructures, the quality of the materials and the deign is always a central theme.
The exhibition has three sections: Fare Architettura, Fare Design, Fare Grafica, set up in restructured containers “sunken” into green areas, linked by ceramic tiles paths and floors.
Modern architecture is a synonym of relationships between landscape and settlement, placing man and his balance with nature at the centre.  The landscape which hosts the exhibition is set among Italian greenery and the latest technologies in the garden sector, including hanging installations, green walls, irrigation and nebulisation systems and wooden structures.












With the collaboration between Cersaie and the Renzo Piano Foundation, this event in Bologna will host a world preview: the exhibition of the recently inaugurated “Central Saint Giles” project in London, by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

The exhibition includes imposing life-sized mock-ups of sections of the actual structure of the project, 6 metres tall, made using ceramic tiles, a film interview with architect Renzo Piano illustrating the project, as well as the preparatory drawings, models and samples of materials used for the project, with an area for consultation of the Renzo Piano Foundation publications.

The exhibition will be presented on 1st October 2010 with a guided tour at the end of the Saper Fare Architettura conference at 11.00 a.m. at the Palazzo dei Congressi, held by designers Maurits van der Staay (associate of RPBW, project manager) and Lorenzo Piazza (architect at RPBW) of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop who worked on the project.









This area of the exhibition will be occupied by ceramics installations created by young designers in collaboration with seven ceramics companies, which were previously shown at the “Milan Triennial” during the Salone del Mobile 2010.

The theme of the event is play and gardens: playground and natural inspiration.
Here an area will be dedicated to the historical illustrations of the famous Italian illustrator Emanuele Luzzati, while the installations will be placed in green areas designed and created by professionals and companies working in the sector.









Following the launch of the contest to design the Cersaie 2010 advertising space on 2nd October 2009 at Cersaie, the 123 products developed on the theme of CERAMIC EDEN by students from 9 Italian Universities of Architecture and Design schools are displayed in this area.

A specific area is dedicated to ALESSANDRA PARODI, student from the Faculty of Architecture in Genoa, winner of the competition and creator of the image of the Cersaie 2010 advertising page, and to two other honourable mentions of the competition. The winners were selected by a panel of judges including Michele De Lucchi, Beppe Finessi, Lia Piano, Franco Origoni.

The exhibition will be presented on 1st October 2010 with a guided tour of the theme at the end of the beautiful ideas conference at 3.00 p.m. at the Palazzo dei Congressi which will be a face-to-face event between the panel and the students, the prize-giving ceremony and the launch of the 2012 design competition.









Emilia-Romagna, urban polis future, is the exhibition of the graphic works and videos of the competition of the same name, to imagine a better city, launched by Cersaie in collaboration with Resto del Carlino and the Zoppa social network for creative people.
Interpreting the spirit and stylistic cipher of modern, vital and technologically advanced cities like Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Sassuolo and Imola, focusing on protagonism and the traditional civil commitment of their inhabitants, called upon to actively contribute to the evolution of the places they live in within a rapidly changing society.
The competition aims to mobilise the readers of the paper and the (65,000) members of the community in a creative competition to improve the quality of life in cities through proposals shown in graphic or video formats. The selection of the best entries will be on show at Cersaie. The prize-giving ceremony will be held on Saturday 2nd October during Cersaie.