{"id":5634,"date":"2020-04-06T00:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T00:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/roberto-zani-tells-the-numa-story"},"modified":"2020-04-06T00:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T00:21:34","slug":"roberto-zani-racconta-numa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/numadesign.it\/en\/roberto-zani-racconta-numa","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Zani Tells the NUMA Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1504079499615{margin-bottom: 5vh !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1504079673177{margin-bottom: 25px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_row_inner content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1502454527869{padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3680&#8243; img_size=&#8221;400&#215;500&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1586187850774{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}&#8221; parallax_scroll=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1502454533190{padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3365&#8243; img_size=&#8221;400&#215;600&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1586189877532{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}&#8221; parallax_scroll=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1504079485859{margin-bottom: 35px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\t\t\t<div id=\"wd-5e8b44061d35b\" class=\"wd-text-block-wrapper wd-wpb wd-rs-5e8b44061d35b color-scheme-dark text-left vc_custom_1586185234244\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"woodmart-title-container woodmart-text-block reset-last-child font-primary wd-font-weight-400 \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h5>Things, names, functions: distortion and alienation.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"wd-5e8b4414f3c6e\" class=\"wd-text-block-wrapper wd-wpb wd-rs-5e8b4414f3c6e color-scheme- text-left vc_custom_1586185302469\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"woodmart-title-container woodmart-text-block reset-last-child font-text wd-font-weight- \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>We are surrounded by so many <strong>things<\/strong>, of which we almost never know what materials they are made of, how they are built, by whom and where.<br \/>\nThese are things we do not know, or know little, and so, at times, we buy them more for reasons that are \u201csuggested\u201d to us (e.g. advertising) and little out of direct awareness of their true value.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>names<\/strong> of these things are often invented by advertising, they refer to something else, other than the thing in itself: they are foreign to the thing.<\/p>\n<p>Their <strong>functions<\/strong> often have little to do with the original (primary) function and refer to conditions, or evoke situations, that are virtual, imaginary.<br \/>\nIf these names and these functions are continually repeated by advertising and its slogans, those names and functions become the new name, the new function, the new message.<\/p>\n<p>And, since the companies that make these things must keep producing, they periodically \u201cinvent\u201d (change) names and also functions, thereby \u201cconsuming\u201d their original meaning, in order to keep producing and to sell the same things (or their variants).<\/p>\n<p>With the aim of getting them bought even by those who already own the previous \u201cversion\u201d. Making people \u201cconsume\u201d so that production can continue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; row_reverse_mobile=&#8221;1&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1535525857509{margin-bottom: 8vh !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1504079490508{margin-bottom: 35px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;text-right&#8221;]\t\t\t<div id=\"wd-5e8b445fd48d4\" class=\"wd-text-block-wrapper wd-wpb wd-rs-5e8b445fd48d4 color-scheme-dark text-right vc_custom_1586185331215\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"woodmart-title-container woodmart-text-block reset-last-child font-primary wd-font-weight-400 \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h5>(Mis)understanding of Value<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"wd-5e8b447699acd\" class=\"wd-text-block-wrapper wd-wpb wd-rs-5e8b447699acd color-scheme- text-right vc_custom_1586185384859\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"woodmart-title-container woodmart-text-block reset-last-child font-text wd-font-weight- \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Leaving aside, for now, the bewilderment generated in the individual by this somewhat mad way of doing things, when a person has to buy an object <strong>and does not know<\/strong> how it is made and whether its meaning\/function is still \u201cvalid\u201d, he or she faces <strong>a thing whose value is unknown<\/strong>. Or at any rate cannot quantify it in economic terms and does not know whether the price to be paid is to be considered fair, adequate.<\/p>\n<p>So it happens that, very often, people are willing to pay the highest price, because they think it is a guarantee of quality, or the lowest one because \u201cit does the same job anyway\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1504079666614{margin-bottom: 25px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;vc_row-reverse-mobile&#8221;][vc_row_inner content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1502454533190{padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3489&#8243; img_size=&#8221;400&#215;600&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1586192639759{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}&#8221; parallax_scroll=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; 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css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1502454533190{padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4010&#8243; img_size=&#8221;400&#215;600&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1586192600021{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}&#8221; parallax_scroll=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1504079485859{margin-bottom: 35px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\t\t\t<div id=\"wd-5e8b45afdedc5\" class=\"wd-text-block-wrapper wd-wpb wd-rs-5e8b45afdedc5 color-scheme-dark text-left vc_custom_1586185671061\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"woodmart-title-container woodmart-text-block reset-last-child font-primary wd-font-weight-400 \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<h5>Elements of comparison<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"wd-5e8b45cb2b7f9\" class=\"wd-text-block-wrapper wd-wpb wd-rs-5e8b45cb2b7f9 color-scheme- text-left vc_custom_1586185712768\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"woodmart-title-container woodmart-text-block reset-last-child font-text wd-font-weight- \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Our companies produce and sell household objects on the free market and must compete with producers from all over the world.<br \/>\nIf the comparison and the competition are made on price, our companies, the small and medium-sized companies that, for better or worse, are the backbone of the Italian productive economy, have no future.<\/p>\n<p>The comparison, therefore, must be shifted onto the other constituent elements of objects, so that at least a sustainable difference, a \u201ccompetitive advantage\u201d, can be determined in the service of <strong>overall company marketing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But this is a subject that concerns, precisely, the economic and marketing aspect of objects and companies.<br \/>\nThat is, of a path that pertains, more generally, to the <strong>possible application of the results<\/strong> of the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Meaning of Research, the Search for Meaning<\/h3>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; 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It cannot tell us what to build, with which materials and how.<\/p>\n<p>Who will help us, who will \u201cshow\u201d us the way?<br \/>\nIt will be thought, pain, joy, wonder, melancholy, silence, poetry.<br \/>\nIt will be the women and men who, alone or together, live, speak, write, communicate these feelings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The intuition that will generate the idea<\/strong> will spark where apparently one believes that no <strong>things<\/strong> are being built, whereas it is from there that all things spring.<br \/>\nThe meeting of women and men who only apparently do not discuss things, these things, will be the assembly from which inspiration will come, the signifier that we shall have to \u201ccapture\u201d in the form of things and turn into meaning.<\/p>\n<p>So that things may \u201cspeak\u201d by themselves.<\/p>\n<p>New things as messengers of joy, of melancholy, of memory, of mystery, of love, of wonder, of magic.<br \/>\nThings as messengers of beauty, full of beauty.<\/p>\n<p>And so we shall have &#8211; perhaps &#8211; identified one of the origins of \u201c design \u201c.<br \/>\nOf true, deep design, the design that comes before, that is inside the idea of things. 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May they be the ones that suit things, so that they also suit people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>And so the NUMA cases will be our Custodie, \u201csmall arks that welcome and protect our dearest things\u201d, made with Giuseppe Rivadossi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Or the small casket, the result of the work done with Michele De Lucchi for the essay by Remo Bodei, where we shall keep our reflection on the life that hosts us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>It will be the tear chalice in which we shall lay our melancholy, the secret, unspeakable eloquence of our melancholy: our segrete, silenziose lacrime. 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