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The first edition of the Tin Compasses, was presented during the Milan design week (14/19 April 2010) at the Triennale Bovisa (Milan).

The workshops and exhibition, are the idea of Alessandro Guerriero and Riccardo Dalisi and are promoted by NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti and the Triennale Design Museum.

The idea of a Tin Compasses award exists over and above any reference to the famous and prestigious Golden Compasses and the role that this has played in the history of international design.

“In the current climate of recession and the consequent changes taking place in every economic, social and cultural aspect, the Tin Compasses aim is to emphasise the revived need for inventions, ideas, projects, procedures and techniques in the artisan sector of small productions, embryonic, organizational initiatives and micro productions with a clear social purpose, at times even alternatives to the use of mechanical procedures and in the industrial sector at long last focussed on sustainability.” – is written in Manifesto of the Compasses.

The set up which is in place host a selection created by Riccardo Dalisi, the objects produced in the workshops and a number of satellite exhibitions.

Triennale Bovisa also host the exhibition of a series of ‘collections’ of objects that intersect the world of the Tin Compasses. There are three main ‘collections’ surrounded by a series of other ‘collected’ objects (material rather than immaterial) on show for the entire duration of the event.

Furthermore, thirty workshops  inspired by a series of key words taken out of the Manifesto Compass Tin (invention, change, scale, micro, sustainability, experimentation, drama, action …) are open to the public.

These workshops are conducted by designers and other creative people  from different departments of  NABA and and other international universities (Central St. Martins, Architectural Association School of Design, University of Dundee, Virginia Commonwealth University, Holon Institute of Technology and others).

Each workshop is open to anyone and every day the space become an unique  big laboratory that visitors can see, touch, test and experiment with real-time exposition of different ‘collections’ of objects and ideas created during the workshops.

Over the coming months, an international jury and the audience will select the most deserving projects, based on several categories of valuation: a total of 12 awards , 11 on the basis of many categories covered by a special jury and  1 audience award .

For more information of competition visit the official web site www.compassodilatta.org