Tanya Aguíñiga, Felt Chair. Photography courtesy of Todd Beattie

MIAMI, FL.- Design Miami/ announced an extensive roster of groundbreaking Design Performances to take place continuously throughout it 2007 Miami event this December. Ten of the world’s most innovative emerging and established designers and design institutions have been invited to create new work onsite, in public and in real time.

The Design Performances at Design Miami/ 07 will transform visitors from passive spectators into participants in the creation of design objects. The program extends the “Performance/Process” theme explored during Design Miami/ Basel 07 by focusing not just on the designer’s function in the creative process, but also on the performative role served by the consumer, who activates or “completes” a given design object by means of his or her hands-on involvement. The Design Performances shift the emphasis away from the design object itself toward the notion of design as a charged, lived experience.

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