FRANCESCO
LIBRIZZI 
STUDIO

RITMO_01
ADI Design Museum, Milano, 2024

On the occasion of the exhibition: “The New Poetic Activism. Italian design in search of inevitable objects”, 17 renowned Italian designers were invited to take part in a new adventure, aiming to create a fresh poetic discourse and reflection across different generations and design approaches on the same theme.

“Ritmo_01” is a rhythmic composition of structural elements. It’s a “tensegrity,” a system of compressed rods and tensioned cables in a reciprocal relationship of distances, lengths, and repetitions. It represents the tectonic soul of a space, in the unfolding and opposing of its components to the force of gravity. It’s a scaled model of an archetypal architecture, an allegory of the metrics and rhythm that generate a space from the dance of its elements.

The composition on display is the first experiment from a research series titled “Sistemi di Scrittura Ritmica” whose purpose is to bring out the poetic vocation of language in the form of text, structure, and music. Let’s try to imagine common assumptions in the use of a text to formulate a narrative and an architectural project for the construction of a space.


DESIGN TEAMFrancesco Librizzi
Anna Carcano CURATOR
Mario Trimarchi PHOTOSMichele Nastasi