madangGwangju Design Biennale
The international Hall presents DUB Revolution. Dubbing is the art of re-mixing a foreign source with local flavors, welcoming international overlaps, generating diversity. Our space is made of circles: drops of ideas that form waves, that clash into new patterns.
DUB Revolution, 2021 Gwangju Design BiennaleGwangju Design Biennale
Exhibition tour
SounDUB System DUB TableGwangju Design Biennale
SounDUB System DUB Table
FUNNYPAPER is beautiful people (+dog) using CAD blades to cut cardboard items in a beautiful building.
MOTOElastico and FUNNYPAPER built the SounDUB System (4 woofers, 30 midranges,40 tweeters),19 disc DUB tables & 2 fashion display.
IntroDUBtionGwangju Design Biennale
IntroDUBtion
Roger Steffens is the world’s leading reggae historian .For the Biennale he is presenting an essay-Intro-to-DUB, his books and selected DUB items from the Reggae Archives he curates in Los Angeles.
IntroDUBtionGwangju Design Biennale
We produced 2 videos:the IntroDUBtion, combining images from the Reggae Archives and the installations, dubbed by the Emmy award winning voice of Roger Steffens, and a virtual tour of the Archives that includes special greetings for the visitors of the GDB.
Cedella Marley DUBGwangju Design Biennale
Cedella Marley DUB
Cedella Marley’ eclectic designs, her work at Tuff Gong and in relation to the Marley Legacy, is featured at the GDB as excellence of inspiring DUB Revolutions.
Cedella Marley DUBGwangju Design Biennale
The first born of Bob and Rita Marley, accomplished singer, Cedella Marley inspiring author, adventurous fashion designer and visionary entrepreneur, Cedella Marley is presenting a selection of her books and fashion design collaborations.
Marley DUBGwangju Design Biennale
Marley DUB
Bob Marley is a global icon of positivity, from music to social change.For the first time in Korea, the Biennale presents his outstanding work with an imaginary vinyl Korean tour that celebrates his 1980 album ‘Uprising’ on the same year of the Gwangju Uprisings.
Marley DUBGwangju Design Biennale
The installations allows visitors to play colorful vinyl records via House of Marley turntables, headphones and speakers and explore the eco-philosophy of the Marley brand, from message, to products to Marley Coffee.
50 Years of Contagion: Marcello Gandini and ContagionGwangju Design Biennale
50 Years of Contagion: Marcello Gandini and Contagion
Marcello Gandini’s masterpiece: the ‘Countach’ in dialect DUBs as ‘damn!’ as its design shocked the world since 1971 and means 'Contagion'.
50 Years of Contagion: Marcello Gandini and ContagionGwangju Design Biennale
For the 50th anniversary we celebrate its positive CONTAGION as inspiration against the pandemic. MAUTO precious documents are DUBbed in a special video collage that reveals passionate design mutations not for auto-mobili(cars) but ‘mobili’(furniture) produced in six cconturies.
50 Years of Contagion: Marcello Gandini and ContagionGwangju Design Biennale
The Countach CONTAGION Dub continues.
The adrenaline-caffeine powered set of 4 tea tables and 1 racing simulator, produced for the Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, shows the double nature of Asia: new fast technology for racing simulators and traditional tea culture, race and pace.
50 Years of Contagion: GGF-T Vintage Kakkoii Supercar ProjectGwangju Design Biennale
50 Years of Contagion: GGF-T Vintage Kakkoii Supercar Project
GGF-T joins the Design Biennale’s 'Countach, 50 years of Contagion' with wonderful Education games & books on the moving Story of the J-Project that ‘resurrected’ the the lost Lamborghini Jota, to convey to children the wonders of dreaming through vintage supercars.
50 Years of Contagion: GGF-T Vintage Kakkoii Supercar ProjectGwangju Design Biennale
GGF-T’s Eraser supercars will erase boredom to let children play while drawing new beautiful dreams. GGF-T kindly donated 100 books and 600 Countach Eraser cars for the Children of Gwangju.
50 Years of Contagion: Countach Kite DUBGwangju Design Biennale
50 Years of Contagion: Countach Kite DUB
The dream to bring the first real Countach in Korea keeps on flying with a real scale Countach Kite DUB, a mix of Italian and Korean passion and craftsmanship, built with traditional Hanji rice paper, flying above the visitors, kite and lantern for DUB Revolutions.
A special autographed message from Marcello Gandini greets the visitors and blesses the flight of the Countach kite.
MoleskineGwangju Design Biennale
Moleskine
The Moleskine notebook is the heir and successor to the legendary notebook used by artists and thinkers over the past two centuries.
MoleskineGwangju Design Biennale
Today the Moleskine notebook is recognized as a contemporary icon of pop culture, a space that hosts thoughts and drawings, a symbol of a continuous creative relay.
MoleskineGwangju Design Biennale
At the Moleskine exhibition area located in the Iternational Pavillion of the 2021GDB, visitors will be able to unleash their creativity at the Moleskine Creative Table, featuring Moleskine collaborations with acclaimed artists, timeless icons, cultural institutions and brands.
Moleskine FoundationGwangju Design Biennale
Moleskine Foundation
The Moleskine Foundation is a non-profit organization that believes access to creativity and quality education is the key to producing systemic social change. The Foundation uses unconventional education to encourage marginalized youth to access creative skills.
Moleskine FoundationGwangju Design Biennale
he Moleskine Foundation embraces the experience of the founders of the Moleskine Brand, who are committed to applying the very values that led to the brand’s success to generate social impact.
FILA DUBGwangju Design Biennale
FILA DUB
FILA , founded 110 yrs ago by the FILA Brothers in Biella, Italy, made clothing for the people of the Alps. Moving to sports & endorsing champions led to international success in the 70’s.
FILA DUBGwangju Design Biennale
In the new millennium Gene Yoon rescued FILA from the crisis, jumpstarting its Korean & global renaissance. At GDB we celebrate the FILA heritage with a 110 DUB collection.
EarthphoniaGwangju Design Biennale
Earthphonia
Max Casacci’s artistic project is something that has never been done before: collecting the sounds of nature, the noises, the calls of animals, the snaps of the roots, and transforming them into music without the use of instruments.
EarthphoniaGwangju Design Biennale
Eight natural elements speak to us thanks to Earthphonia. A multimedia story of the wonders that the planet Earth gives us, an immersion in the environment for listening to its voice and learn how to defend it.
Sonic JeelGwangju Design Biennale
Sonic Jeel
Sonic Jeel (Qatar) is a collaborative initiative working with sound, noise, electronic music, and audiovisual media within the context of Qatar and the Gulf region. Sonic Jeel celebrates the interplay of the sonic and the graphic.
Clay Sound SystemGwangju Design Biennale
Clay Sound System
Clay Sound System is a sound garden collecting about thirty vases of different sizes, made by a skilled Italian craftsman. Visitors are invited to compose a personal circular sound path, gently striking the vases as if they were delicate bells.
Nordic CornerGwangju Design Biennale
Nordic Corner
Sauna Pavilion
An urban modular sauna paired with a pavilion and boardwalk, built to be put up wherever a sauna is needed - virtually everywhere! Viewers can experience a proper Finnish sauna and learn about the sauna's place in Finnish history and culture.
1.White Forest:A breeze through the meadow, the flowers are still awake. A dance in the midnight sun./2.Nørdic IPA:A unique beer created for late summer nights using an old and special Norwegian ale yeast. The recipe was developed in collaboration between the expert brewers at Ggeek Beer Company and the designers of Almond Studio./3.Saku Dripper:An Ultra-light coffee dripper that blooms both when unfolding and when brewing your coffee. Designed for hiking and travel. Patent Pending.
RêvolutionnerGwangju Design Biennale
Rêvolutionner
Rêvolutionner presents a selection of French designers working on recycling, upcycling, downcycling and hijacking. The works explore the intertwining of cultures and (re)invention of materials and new social situations, in order to 'do better with less and in a different way'.
RêvolutionnerGwangju Design Biennale
Hyperbol_Culinary Installation · 2015
It is based on an ancient technique, which consists of extracting casein from milk, purifying it, transforming it into a paste, molding it, and soaking it in a watery formaldehyde solution before drying it. The finished material is biodegradable.
RêvolutionnerGwangju Design Biennale
iwal 2_Inflatable sailing dinghy · 2012
Tiwal2 is a new-generation inflatable sailing dinghy that can be stored in two bags, weighs 40kg and can be assembled in 15 minutes. Its design ensures it is compact and quick to assemble, easy to control and handles excellently on the water.