E1 stove with moka for Italian coffee (iron)

The Low Cost Design Archive is the result of a sociological, urban and ethnographic research led between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea area, That let the author document more than seven thousand examples of spontaneous creativity. Low Cost Design is based on a principle supported by the greatest protagonists of design: the best project is not necessarily the one that starts from the patent office or in architectural studies or inside the computer of a big company, but rather what arise from the simplicity of everyday life. Low Cost Design is a visual dictionary, halfway between "poetic ability" and "technological capacity". These genuine ideas, invented by unknown authors, are classified according to different research plans (five different levels of design for the objects, six categories for the actions) and offer a starting point for reflection on the practice of recovery and re-use, but above all they make up a really interesting map from a sociological, urbanistic and ethnographic point of view. A selection of images is collected in an editorial project that makes us participate in a transversal, non-disciplinary, eclectic and heretical view of our daily life. All the images have been selected from the Low-cost Design archive by Daniele Pario Perra and were created by the artist.