THE AESTHETIC OF MISERY: DESIGN AS AN EXPRESSION OF URBAN SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT, AN INTERPRETATION IN INTERIOR DESIGN

The topic of this paper is culture. The paper explains the experimental works called the Aesthetic of Misery, presented in Milan Furniture Fair, April 2015. This new approach to design launched by Andrea Branzi and Michele De Lucchi, two prominent designers in Milan. They present “social environment” based on the concept of misery. These experimental works investigate the concept of deprivation, re-establishing its value as a historical and cultural category of crucial relevance, generative of both misery and nobility. The exhibition presented sixteen projects developed by the students of Interior Design Master Program of Politecnico di Milano Italy under supervision of Francesca Balena Arista and Marco de Santi.
Misery can be found as an expression in arts such as painting, cinema dan literature but seem something deliberately hidden in design particulary in interior design. The aesthetic of misery is the experimental works to expose or present the misery in design culture. This project seem as an appreciation to the way of how poor people survive in the matter of occupancy or dwelling.
Analitical descriptive method used to explain the background and aim of aesthetic of misery. Observation in contemporary of the the Interior Design and archtecture style used to find and to compare the similarity or concurrent with the concept of aesthetic of misery. This aim is to understood as the implementation or has a the same direction of  the aesthetic of misery. What Andrea Branzi and Michele De Lucchi called the Aesthetic of Misery is a part of real social environment that also exist in interior design and architecture.

Dibuat oleh : Jamaludin dan  Anwar Subkiman

Alamat e-mail: jamal@itenas.ac.id

Kata kunci : aesthetic; aesthetic of misery; Andrea Branzi, Micchele de Lucchi, Interior Design

Keterangan: Karya tulis ilmiah ini disanpaikan pada International Conference on Art, Craft, Culture, and Design ICON-ARCCADE 2017

THE AESTHETIC OF MISERY: DESIGN AS AN EXPRESSION OF URBAN SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT, AN INTERPRETATION IN INTERIOR DESIGN