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UK Book Launch: Travelogue Vol. 2 Greek everyday solutions to common problems
On Friday, October 24th, 6:00 -8:00pm at Tenderbooks, 6 Cecil Court, London, WC2N 4HE Hyper, Hypo publications and Papairlines are thrilled to invite you to the London launch of Travelogue Vol. 2: Greek everyday solutions to common problems. New photographs from across Greece capture its people’s spontaneous ingenuity, whose imaginative hacks offer clever solutions to simple, everyday problems.
Join us for a glass of wine and a chinwag with the curators, in the gorgeous Tenderbooks shop in Cecil Court, near Leicester Square in London.
A few words about the new edition from the curators:
The first volume of Travelogue: Greek everyday solutions to common problems came with a great surprise: what we initially thought was a personal design project turned out to have a wider reach, an ethnographic and cultural angle that made it relatable to a non-design oriented audience. It has been a great pleasure to observe people’s reactions, to receive messages and images from our peers, but also from complete strangers who obtained a copy. (…) Furthermore, our publishers kept sharing stories of the reactions from clients of their bookshop in Athens, and we followed the book travelling to a number of bookshops from the US to Korea. With all this positive feedback, it was only natural for us to move forward with this follow-up volume, presenting even more images of ingenious solutions found across Greece.
(…) In a world that is becoming more controlled by algorithms and less by personal human curiosity, the objects in Travelogue Vol. 2: Greek everyday solutions to common problems occupy the liminal space between uniformity and uniqueness, timelessness and trend, planet and production, access and availability, need and materials. In the end, these objects may hold the key to understanding what luxury, craftsmanship, knowledge and ingenuity can mean at the dawning of a new world.
Papairlines are a design collective that, through design, research and experiment with thematics that influence everyday life. Founded in 2011 by Vasso Asfi, Costas Bissas, and Loukas Angelou, they operate “design flights”, using travel as a metaphor to draw connections between aesthetics and usability, process and result, stereotype and evolution, behaviour and emotion. They curate experiences that promote creative thinking and showcase alternative design approaches through a series of activities including exhibitions, talks, seminars, and hands-on workshops. They have collaborated with organizations and institutions such as the Barbican Centre (London), Onassis Stegi (Athens), Konstfack University (Stockholm), as well as companies like 3M and H&M.
The photographs included in the book come from various parts of Greece and were collected through an open call. The photographers are not necessarily the creators of the objects depicted, but they successfully capture the essence of these items.