Open Source Pasta

Discussion

Paola Antonelli:

"Thinkering is the warm embrace that allows us to connect throughout history momentous examples of singular creativity achieved by means of collective refinements. Unlike contemporary hacking culture, it does not always lead to romantically rough and niche outcomes. Quite the opposite, when it is left to mature for a long time, it can lead to some of the most lyrical and universal amongst human assets. Like pasta, for instance. Cooking is reported in the crowdsourced op-ed in this issue of Domus as being one of the most ancient forms of open-source working models, and the various types of pasta, made perfect by material culture and generations of cooks over centuries, are among the open-source movement's most unlikely and yet most effective testimonies. So fitting, indeed, is the paradigm that it has resisted all individual, stylistic, and arbitrary intervention, as demonstrated by the several unfortunate attempts made by renowned designers/ famous egos like Philippe Starck, Giorgetto Giugiaro and Luigi Colani. They all failed and miserably. Pasta and open-source are the antithesis of griffe. What you make with them, on the other hand, is all up to you and to your personal talent, so long as you give back to the community that helped you get where you are—lest you get exiled to styleland." (http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/states-of-design-03-thinkering-/)