EX-DESIGNER PROJECT BAR.
Unevaluated Essays 3. Edited by Martí Guixé and Inga Knölke
In 2015, Martí Guixé, with the collaboration of Pau Badia, opened the Ex-Designer Project Bar where drinking and printing naturally merged, becoming the first bar built entirely using 3D additive manufacturing. Documented from the beginning with photographs by Inga Knölke, the book recounts the Sisyphean task of printing, the adventures of the space as a bar, the convoluted origin of the name, the vague and changing purpose of the project, and its final consolidation into an object at the DHub in Barcelona.
In its delayed inauguration, the project perplexes us, as it is not an ending but rather a rebirth in which the bar proposes itself as transversal and open, away from its primary functions, almost mystical. Like an archaeological ruin of the future with an unprecedented energy to create and configure contexts, functions, and fictions through its mere presence and its intricate history of more than nine years of continuous transformation, adaptation, and resilience.
The new Ex-Designer Project Bar has emerged as an active and transformative agent, positioning itself between object and subject: the ultimate catalyst.
Pau Badia
Inga Knölke
EX-DESIGNER PROJECT BAR
Unevaluated Essays 3
Edited by Martí Guixé and Inga Knölke
© 2024 Inga Knölke, Martí Guixé
© 2024 Maurizio Corraini s.r.l.
All rights reserved by Maurizio Corraini s.r.l.
Book Design
Martí Guixé
Inga Knölke
Texts by
Pau Badia
Jose Luis De Vicente
Martí Guixé
Inga Knölke
Octavi Rofes
Ineke Schwartz
Jeffrey Swartz
Photographs by Inga Knölke
Printed in Italy
June 2024
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Unevaluated Essays is a collection curated by Martí Guixé. The books contain theories, essays, speculations, and anticipations to understand and react to the
emerging society of disorder at the beginning of the 21st century. With a design-based focus and dedicated design projects, topics can span politics, economics,
science, culture, ecology, and food. The essays are published in softcover format, measuring 11 x 18 cm.
Books in the collection:
01 Casa Mondo Food, Martí Guixé, 2021
02 Design without Project, Octavi Rofes, 2022
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