DesignBasque
22 October 2008
“To be ignorant of what happened before you were born”, wrote Cicero in Orator, “is to remain forever a child. For what is the value of human life if it is not woven into the lives of our ancestors by the records of history?”
ADN DESIGN set up the DesignBasque scheme to show the international community objects designed in the Basque Country throughout history.
DesignBasque offers designers, design historians and enthusiasts for the culture of the project in general a selection of products from our past. The initial selection is small, but we expect it to grow as colleagues and friends offer their collaboration -all contributions are most welcome- in gradually transforming it into a true repository of our memories. Memory of the past is not a burden: it encourages us to undertake new projects and points the way that we should go.
This scheme is not intended as eye candy or to pander to a desire for nostalgia. DesignBasque seeks to become a meeting point and the means for producing communication and knowledge. In short, it seeks to recover in the meaning once held by objects from our past, so that we can obtain a better understanding of them and of ourselves.
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