Fantastical Investments by Droog and Metahaven at Droog Amsterdam.

Prescription is Insurance is a life-time wall clock that guarantees the user access to medication and drugs for both real and imaginary pains and pleasures. It’s part of Fantastical Investments, the outcome of Droog Lab’s study of consumption habits in Russia.

Fantastical Investments is an imaginary luxury brand created by Droog with Metahaven. It was presented on September 2011 with a panel discussion and exhibition at Droog Amsterdam. Unveiling a collection of nine products, the brand acts as a vehicle for discussion on the co-existence of fiction and survival in a new vision on luxury. 

Jorge Mañes, part of the Droog Design Team, designed and produced the piece Prescription is Insurance, 100% handmade at Droog Amsterdam.

For more information about the project and the exhibition please visit Fantastical Investments at droog.com

September 22nd - October 2nd

Tues - Sat 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Sun 12:00 - 5:00 pm

Droog Amsterdam

Ultreia, the Nomad Factory, at ‘.thisplace’ Venice, Italy.

Ultreia, the Nomad Factory, will be exhibited in the streets of Venice next week, as part of the collective art exhibition ‘.thisplace’ organised by the A+A Centro Pubblico per l’Arte Contemporanea di Venezia, and curated by Marta Carboni. 

Campo Santa Margherita. May 27th - June 16th 2011.

Opening May 27th, 18h.

RSVP here

More info: .thisplace

Jorge Mañes Rubio at Torun Film Festival, Torun, Poland.

Seethisway will be projecting ‘Ultreia’ and ‘Shanghai Express’ at Torun Film Festival in Torun, Poland.

Torun Film Festival.

10-12 December 2010.

Jorge Mañes Rubio at the 5th International Streaming Film Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Seethisway will be projecting ‘Shanghai Express’ at the 5th International Streaming Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands.

5th International Streaming Film Festival.

01-05 December 2010.

Ultreia at Latin America’s Second Design Biennial, Madrid, Spain.

Ultreia will be exhibited at Latin America’s Second Design Biennial in Madrid, Spain.

Thursday 25 November. 20:00h.

Instituto HUNE.

Montalbán 9 - 28014 Madrid.

Latin America’s Second Design Biennial

Useless at ArtMadrid, Spain.

What happens when this piece’s disappearance becomes something much more valuable than its own presence? Can the absence become the primary function of a product?

Jorge Mañes Rubio will be presenting Useless together with Absolute Art Space at ArtMadrid 2011

ArtMadrid 2011.

Pabellón de Cristal de la Casa de Campo de Madrid.

Avenida Portugal s/n 28011 Madrid.

15-20 February 2011.

For opening times and more information about the event please visit ArtMadrid 

‘Park, Set & Match’ First Prize in the street art contest Play in the City.

‘Park, Set & Match’ received the First Prize in the international street art contest Play in the City, organised by El Duende and Infinity.

Check out our interview here.

Check the 10 finalists and their amazing proposals here.

‘We don’t stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing’

Seethisway.

Ultreia, the Nomad Factory, at RCA Intent Milan Design Week 2011.

Ultreia the Nomad Factory, at Milan Design Week 2011.

Monday 11th April, 3pm - 8pm; Press View 1

Wednesday 13th April, 2pm - 5pm; Press View 2

Wednesday 13th April, 6pm - 11pm: Private View

Tuesday 12th - Sunday 17th April, 10am - 8pm: Show open to Public

RCA Intent, an exhibition by the Royal College of Art London.

Via Privata Massimiano 6. 20134 Milano, Italia. (Ventura-Lambrate Area)

Map

Born Again at SalaB The Emerging Art Jam, Barcelona, Spain.

Jorge Mañes Rubio will be presenting his last project ‘Born Again’ at SalaB - The Emerging Art Jam in Barcelona, Spain.

You can follow the project and its progress in our Blog

Opening: Thursday 13th January 19:00h.

From 13th January till 31st January 2011.

SalaB ‘The Emerging Art Jam’

Carrer Comercial, 3

08003 Barcelona · SPAIN

+34 932 955 799

+34 932 683 695

info@sala-b.com

www.sala-b.com

‘A Possible World’ out now in ‘Arc 15, The Impossible’ The Journal of the Royal College of Art.

Based on the world created by Jorge Mañes Rubio

Written by Jorge and Andrea Garcia Santana

'A Possible World' is published through Arc, the Journal of the Royal College of Art, London. The issue 'Arc 15 The Impossible' broaches the idea of impossibility as a design challenge, featuring written pieces by Paola Antonelli and Tord Boontje amongst others.

‘A Possible World’ is a bed time story that takes place in a not so distant future, set in an unknown city. The project is inspired by the characteristic fictional narratives from Jorge’s work. Weaving a possible world from his impossible ideas, the story seeks to question the reality surrounding our daily lives. In this particular case, the distinction between what is real and what is not real is left deliberately ambiguous. The story challenges the future role of design, and poses the question of if these fantastic worlds could actually change the one we live in.

To find out where to buy it or how to order it online please click HERE

An online version of ‘A Possible World’ specifically created for Seethisway.com, designed by Gianluca Tesauro and illustrated by P. I. de Ossorno Gómez can be downloaded HERE

UP by droog, a new design movement

On Thursday, November 3rd 2011 Droog launched the new design movement UP during an event that brought together industry and design, and revealed the line of UP products.

In most supply chains, stock has maximum value when it is first introduced to the market. From that moment, it tends to rapidly drop in value, finally reaching a point at which companies tend to either dispose or recycle it at a cost - both financial and environmental.

UP introduces an alternative: to reinvest in the dead stock through a new way of designing, introducing new functions, new aesthetics and new markets to leftover goods in order to bring them back into circulation.

Click HERE to read more about the project.

Unprepared: lessons from the informal economy, Mumbai, India.

Jorge Mañes Rubio has been selected to participate in Unprepared, lessons from the informal economy, a new Droog Lab in Mumbai, India.

Though their reality is harsh, slums demonstrate people’s capacity to improvise, self-organize and create value regardless of circumstance and institutional wellbeing. As people self-coordinate around common goals, they show that improvisation, as a means of coping, can have structural implications that can be surprisingly sophisticated and robust.

Led by photographer Bas Princen and in partnership with Studio-X Mumbai, the Droog Lab will seek to engage with the informal economy to see what lessons might be learned for the future of design.

More info at droog.com

Dates

November 6th - 20th, 2011

Mumbai, India.

Follow the project in our blog and twitter! @Seethisway

A.B.C.D.E. an open discussion on design process

On Friday, November 18th 2011, Studio X Mumbai hosted A.B.C.D.E.— an open discussion on design process presenting studies from Droog Lab’s 11-day workshop in the informal settlement of Dharavi, Mumbai.

Starting with a diagram found with a Google search on Indian mathematics, the team engaged with producers in Dharavi, creating iterations of the diagram as a means to understand the equation and to develop a way of working with each other. Each iteration is a study that generates the next, blurring the boundary between study and object, tool and result, in an open-ended process that builds upon the capacities of the system.

Areas of discussion included adaptability as a generator of design, the role of the social bond within economic transactions, the role of the designer in creating a framework for an open-ended production process, the value of open-ended design process and results, the possibility to translate findings to other situations, and possible next steps in this investigation.

Click HERE to read more about the project.

Useless at Foster Care Milan Design Week 2012

Useless will be exhibited at Foster Care Milan Design Week 2012.

In a very much saturated design situation, Useless will challenge in a one night only installation the idea of design without a tangible reason to exist. What happens when an object's disappearance becomes something much more valuable than its own presence? Can the absence become the primary function of a product?

Wednesday, April 18 2012

Jorge Mañes Rubio – Useless

@ Nicola Zanardi

Ultreia at Spazio per le Arti Contemporanee del Broletto di Pavia

‘Ultreia the Nomad Factory’ will take part in the exhibition ‘Crossroads of Europe. Itinerari culturali e religiosi‘ organised in Pavia, Italy, by the European Comission and the Comune di Pavia. 

The exhibition will take place at an outstanding location, the Spazio per le Arti Contemporanee del Broletto di Pavia, built in 1197.

Crossroads of Europe. Itinerari culturali e religiosi

8-17 June 2012

Spazio per le Arti contemporanee del Broletto

Piazza Cavagneria, Pavia, Italy.

Panorama revealed at the new Ejaso headquarters in Madrid

Panorama is a lighting installation commissioned by Ejaso for their new headquarters in Madrid. The artwork was produced in Amsterdam and assembled in Madrid, revealed in June 2012. It features 91 pieces of maple wood hand-painted with acrylic and lighted with fluorescent tubes, and is inspired by antique panoramic war paintings.

Click HERE to read more about the project

Undesigned at DDW Eindhoven 2012

Undesigned is an ongoing series of objects that have been entirely created following no plan or scheme whatsoever. Without any kind of technical drawings or development, the products are a result of pure intuition, freedom and improvisation, following only a very first sketch drawn over the inspiration image.

Obsessed with the relation between design and geographic locations, Mañes collects images from particular places and attempts to transform them into three-dimensional objects. Geometrical studies made on paper jump straight away into the workshop table, where they are assembled piece by piece.

The project invites to reflect about the idea of using design as a force to translate and represent particular places, transforming them into tangible objects or mementos and defending its diversity against the redundancy from the current design scene.

The first two objects Powerpole and Gerrit will be exhibited for the very first time at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, 20-28 October 2012.

Building SX/Videolab

Torenallee 20, entrance SX

5617 BC Eindhoven

Click HERE to for more information about this event

Street Food Lighting awarded at Your Street Eindhoven design contest

We are happy to announce that our project Street Food Lighting has received the second prize in the Your Street Eindhoven design contest, winning a total of EUR 5000 in project funding. Organised by Design Indaba, Capital D and Premsela, Nederlands Instituut voor Design en Mode, the contest invited designers from all over the world to design a solution that will transform an aspect of the street-level experience of Eindhoven.

The jury describes Street Food Lighting as ‘a visually very attractive project. Brings people (young and old and of all income levels) together, and fits perfectly into the picture of Eindhoven, city of design, technology and light.’

We want to thank you all for your support, and invite you to discover the winning proposals at the Designhuis Eindhoven, during the next Dutch Design Week 2012. 

Click HERE for more information about this event

Click HERE to see the project

Normal Pool Level at 501 Contemporary Art Centre, Chongqing, China.

Normal Pool Level: “Height in meters above sea level at which a section of the river is to be maintained behind a dam.”

The Three Gorges Dam is China’s most ambitious construction since the Great Wall. In July 2012 the largest Hydroelectric project in the world was fully functional for the first time. Nevertheless, it supplies only 1.7% of the electrical demand in China. The project and its new 660 km long reservoir generated a huge environmental and human impact in the Yangtze valley, flooding 13 cities, 140 towns and 1,352 villages, submerging nearly 8,000 years of Chinese history. It has so far forced 4 million people to relocate.

In January 2013 designer Jorge Mañes Rubio decided to travel off-season along the Yangtze river to collect and transform a series of objects that depict the complex changes that have occurred in the area. The dislocation between both past and future, tradition vs. modernity, and memory vs. progress is key to a journey where the designer engages into an alternative narrative through which a more accurate experience of the area’s transformation is thoroughly revealed.

The exhibition comprises a collection of objects, images, and installations that become the narrators of the designer’s journey. By travelling off the beaten track and engaging with the locals Mañes manages to create an array of symbols and memorials that don’t seem to belong to Eastern nor Western culture, portraying the identity clash that the area has been going through in the past few years and the cost the region is paying for the country’s development.

Click HERE to see the project

Normal Pool Level at LASEDE del COAM, Madrid, Spain.

Normal Pool Level en LASEDE del COAM, del 9 al 24 de mayo de 2013. Lunes a viernes de 09:00 a 20:30hrs.

Inauguracion: jueves 9 de mayo 19h.

LASEDE del COAM

Calle Hortaleza 63 Madrid

Más información acerca de este evento AQUÍ

Jorge Mañes Rubio at Sleepwalkers Film Festival, Tallin, Estonia.

Seethisway will be projecting ‘Shanghai Express’ at PÖFF's 11th Student & Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers in Tallin, Estonia.

Sleepwalkers Film Festival.

20-24 November 2010.

Jorge Mañes Rubio at Liquid Cities, Calgary, Canada.

Ultreia, The Eiffel Factory and Shanghai Express at:

Liquid Cities. An exhibition about future cities, contemporary identities, new technologies and body boundaries.

The Rivoli, 800 6th Ave SW, Calgary, AB, Canada.

29-31 October 2010.

Jorge Mañes Rubio at Pecha Kucha Night Valencia 2010.

Jorge Mañes Rubio at Pecha Kucha Night, Valencia Design Week 2010.

‘Chiringato’ Antiguo Cauce del Río Turia, Puente del Mar, Valencia.

28 September, 20:00h

www.pechakuchavalencia.com

Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 100 cities across the world.

Jorge Mañes Rubio will be presenting his research work leading Seethisway.

Jorge Mañes Rubio, Ultreia, at Royal College of Art, London.

Royal College of Art. Show Two Kensington.

25 June - 4 July, 11AM-8PM

Free admission (Closed 2 July)

Royal College of Art.

Kensington Gore

London SW7 2EU