National Design Award | 2009
setting-up of BOX version
setting-up of BOX version
setting-up of BOX version
setting-up of BOX version
setting-up of BOX version
setting-up of LAPTOP version
setting-up of LAPTOP version
setting-up of LAPTOP version
colour mix
colour mix
colour mix
Modular System | Assembly Kit composed of four components for the construction of two types of bags / containers, and of two additional pluggable pockets. System (re)Active is the result of the System 2k07 redesign process, upholding the use in the urban context, the ludic manipulation of components and multiple alternatives. System (re)Active is available in twelve colours and in two different prints.
Points of Sale
Miguel Rios Design – Shop
Fabrica Features, Lisboa
MUUDA, Porto
Le QuoTibaU, Paris
Presentation performance – May 29th 2009
Since its inception, the System project has been defined as an open design system, where, as a permanent work in progress, new features and solutions are developed, according to internally defined project-related premises, and emerging issues that may influence the better performance of the products. After the success achieved by the System 2k07 and eighteen months after the launch of the first articles in the line, based on the experience acquired, the market response and a set of tests carried out with users, the System (re)Active was born.
As the name itself suggests, we reactivated the System 2k07, solving a series of issues identified with the various actors: the general public, users, the media, traders, the manufacturing company, a specialised technological centre and competing companies and brands. Some of the topics were examined in more depth, details were developed, models were tested and new approaches were considered in order to respond to criticisms and the new market paradigms we face today.
It is the philosophy of MR?D to have a very critical overview over their results, not closing their creations on themselves and not forgetting the contributions that new perspectives may have on their work. So, as the relationship that MR?D has with the created products is important, it is also considered very significant the relationship the public might have with them. Involving the public in the creative process of redesign, the System (re)Active is for us, as designers of the product, the result of a collective effort: in addition to our role as designers, the public is directly involved in problem solving and suggesting new approaches. Always focused on the product, it is from the conclusions of this exercise of double dialectic MR?D-Object and Public-Object, that we believe that the System line will attain conceptual, formal and functional maturity.
The System (re)Active is the result, perhaps not the final one, of a product that is defined as a transformation of its predecessor System 2k07, with a strong commercial component and formal / functional evolution. Different, no doubt, but also a real avatar, which aims to be a strategic motor for the development of the MR?D, and yet another example of the viability of the products designed and made in Portugal.
The launch of the system (re)Active took place on May 29th, 2009, in Space Oficina - Complementary space of Galeria Fernando Santos for alternative projects in Oporto, with the support of Appleton Square.
On the 7th November 2009, the System Project was awarded with the National Design Award - Sena da Silva, in the Fashion / Textile category . The National Design Awards, granted every two years, is an initiative of the Portuguese Design Centre, sponsored by Caixa Geral de Depósitos and with the High Sponsorship of His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic, Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva. The Sena da Silva Award distinguishes companies and designers in the areas of Equipment / Industrial, Communication / Graphic, Environments, Fashion / Textile and Jewellery, and for the 2009 edition had as jury designer Henrique Cayatte and designer Beatriz Vidal, respectively President and Vice President of the Portuguese Design Centre; Dr. Suzana Ferreira on behalf of Caixa Geral de Depósitos; Dr. Pedro Matias, Vice President of IAPMEI Institute for Support to Small and Medium Companies; Dr. Barbara Coutinho, President of MUDE - Museum of Design and Fashion, designer Nuno Sá Leal from the Portuguese Association of Designers, and the designers specialists in various areas: Eduardo Afonso Dias, Francisco Providência, Filipe Alarcão, Eduarda Abbondanza and Ana Campos.