Andrea Trimarchi / Simone Farresin Formafantasma to think that resources are infinite is the biggest utopia of modernity

Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi make up the Italian design duo Studio Formafantasma and are based in Amsterdam. They attended the IM Master program at Design Academy Eindhoven, where they graduated in July 2009. Characterised by experimental material investigations, their work explores the relationship between tradition and local culture, critical approaches to sustainability and the significance of objects as cultural conduits.

Cambio — the recent exhibition of design duo Formafantasma at London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery — does not exhibit any design object in the accepted sense; it does not showcase products but a way of thinking. «Cambio looks through the relationship between humankind and its ecosystem. The process of growth, trade,. The of any species of wood references the membrane that runs between the bark and the sapwood, and which continuously produces the two materials in both directions, at the same time feeding and protecting the trunk. The is also a fundamental process that helps plants and trees adapt to climate changes and evolve. It represents the most primordial process of prototyping known to nature.