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13 Divine Concepts for a Redesigned Rosary
From Fast Co. Design
The Vatican is hurtling straight into the future this fall, with Pope Benedict making his first tweet from his handle @Pontifex this week (“I bless all of you from my heart”). Meanwhile in Venice, 25 designers participated in an exhibition that re-imagined that icon of old-school Catholicism: the Rosary.
Aveamen: Design per lo Spirito invited young artists, architects, and product designers to create a rosary designed for the 21st century. It’s not like Catholicism hasn’t had its own design triumphs--after all, think of the Popemobile--but tradition is important in the church, so the objects associated with the faith don’t change all that often. Labìt Architects, the curators behind Aveamen, think it’s a missed opportunity: “It’s not easy to enclose so many symbols, sensations and incorporeal elements in an object. They belong to an experience linked both to the sacred and to the tradition.” But after all, explain Labìt, “the rosary is a usable object; an ergonomically designed prayer meter.” Why shouldn’t it get an update? Read More and See the Designs
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