MARGINAL is a design research studio exploring the margins of design disciplines and the roles it can play in the making of societies.Founded by Zeno Franchini and Francesca Gattello, MARGINAL uses prototypes, installations, writing and film to investigate and document the production of universes of objects and spaces, as well as the implication of their production on a planetary scale.MARGINAL claims that "problems get the solutions they deserve, according to the terms by which… Show more MARGINAL is a design research studio exploring the margins of design disciplines and the roles it can play in the making of societies.Founded by Zeno Franchini and Francesca Gattello, MARGINAL uses prototypes, installations, writing and film to investigate and document the production of universes of objects and spaces, as well as the implication of their production on a planetary scale.MARGINAL claims that "problems get the solutions they deserve, according to the terms by which they are created as problems" [1] and develops a practice aware of the complexity it deals with, in a continuous dialogue with other professions, expertises, and cultures. Within and against logics and structures of Design, it aims to constructive dissent, both material and speculative.MARGINAL is currently developing Cultural Stratigraphy, a project in Collaboration with La Panacée | Centre de Culture Contemporaine in Montpellier. During the Residency the Politic of Soil is going to be investigated in its cultural and economic relation with human activities. Experimenting design interactions and tools as forms of social and political practice. marginalstudio.com Show less

Strategic design, Collective organization, Concept, Social critique, product and exhibition design