The Offbeats

A platform about togetherness in design.

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Paris is celebrating #May68 - the series of popular events that shook the French capital 50 years ago. At the @CentrePompidou, for instance, a three-week long staged occupation is taking place around #Cavea, a structure designed by #OlivierVadrot.

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“The particular satisfaction derived from the simplicity of a thing can be called elegance. When we speak of an “elegant” solution, we refer to something consciously evolved by men which reduces the complex to the simple” #VictorPapanek

Read >> https://t.co/dkLfdjmGpG

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” - Oscar Wilde

Head over to our website to read the article we wrote about the beautiful #CommunityLighting project of #Italian architect #MatteoFerroni >> https://t.co/dkLfdjmGpG

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We visited the #exhibition dedicated to the #ForobaYelen project realised by #Italian #designer #MatteoFerroni for the rural communities of #Mali.

Head over to our website to read the article >> https://t.co/dkLfdjmGpG

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It’s cold outside, so we decided to explore the power of fire! 🔥🔥
>> https://t.co/0nwtmfzItQ

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Another #theatre at the @FondazionePrada in #Milan
>> https://t.co/pyS1lef1g1

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In our latest article we talk about creative confidence, co-operation, alternative education and 3D printing in the Austrian Alps! >> https://t.co/N63jiYuPeu

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Happy to see #Agrocite back on the map! #saveRURBAN https://t.co/BP7p6fjPz7

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#Agrocite avance a #Genneviliers! La charpente et le planché sont finis, la toiture presque. On espère avoir la crémaillère en début d'année ... avec du champagne et beaucoup du monde! Jusqu'a la on vous invitera a un petit vin chaud en décembre! Stay tuned! Vive #saveRURBAN

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In recent years, pop-up experimental cities have underlined the importance of communal alternatives within the normalised cities. These initiatives have many forerunners of which Whiz Bang Quick City >> https://t.co/4mnLpx4o2Z

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@thinkingcity Thanks for sharing @thinkingcity

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To continue our exploration of theatres as important social tools for activism, read the story about the recent occupation of the Volksbühne Berlin theatre on @openDemocracy

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"Theatres are the founding principles of democracy", says French artist Olivier Vadrot​. Discover why >> https://t.co/fm9JsmTr15

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Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson reporting the @LamaFoundation back in 1971.

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@NoToScale proposed installing a 3145m-long dining table instead of the wall planned by D. Trump along the Mexican border #NoBanNoWall

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Social #restaurant @RefettorioBR features large rectangular canteen #tables around which guests can enjoy #communal meals.

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Photographer Ivana Tomljenović-Meller captures a common meal at the canteen of the #bauhaus in Dessau in 1930.

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In our last article we talk about tables - objects operating both as icebreakers and constructors of togetherness >> https://t.co/4K8S3OX5OZ

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#Cosmopolis #1 @CentrePompidou highlights the role of the "Collective Intelligence" in today's society!

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Inspired by communal bread ovens @MicroCompanion is a nomadic bakery run by designer and baker Julia Georgallis.