The Objects Becomes.

This movie tells the story of Belgian design through the attitudes, words and gestures of nine protagonists of circular design, reuse, regeneration of resources, new models of organization and production.

The movie was born through the  collaboration of Giovanna Massoni, curator, and Alexandre Humbert, designer and film director. The  movie tells the story of Belgian design at a historical moment that highlights an important turning point in its role. Shot between February and April 2021 across Belgium, the film accompanies us through the attitudes, words and gestures of nine protagonists of circular design, reuse, regeneration of resources, new models of organization and production.

One story, nine practices: the stories blend together to create a unity of space and time, building a single voice common to all. The object (the design), assumed here as a starting point, has a variable, vulnerable identity and becomes a pretext for determining the locations in which the narrative is integrated. An agile artifact generated by individual and collective experience, it passes from one hand to another, it adapts, it is shared, it regenerates. The work is (again) open – as Umberto Eco wished. (Opera Aperta, 1962).

This is a film that celebrates the universality of objects, ‘that is, their nature, which consists of their ability to enter into, and be traversed by, anything else.’ (Emanuele Coccia, ‘La vie des plantes’).