Kiasmo - Francesco Di Dio - Frame (4) - Wood, Ceramic

Kiasmo
Titolo della serie: The Built in Mind.
4 pz
Designer : Francesco Di Dio

Concept
The Built in Mind is a series of illustrations by architect Francesco Di Dio, known as Effe, for Kiasmo, exploring architecture as a metaphor for the mind. In these works space does not obey the laws of physics nor the codes of traditional design: stairs leading to nothing, inaccessible entrances, suspended and floating volumes, unsustainable proportions. They are structures that do not aspire to be built in the real world, but exist exclusively in the fluid territory of thought.
The mind is here the invisible architect. Each image is born as an inner project: a place generated by intuition, memories, desires, and perceptions. Like an architect, the mind designs spaces, opens passages, erects walls, and invents perspectives through which we interpret the world. But unlike real architecture, these constructions do not need to obey rules, proportions, or functional logic: they can be free, dreamlike, contradictory.
The series reflects on how our thoughts shape our inner reality, our “mental house.” We often inhabit invisible structures made of beliefs, habits, and interpretations inherited from our culture and environment.
Through Effe’s illustrations, The Built in Mind suggests the possibility of becoming architects of our own perception. The imagined architectures become exercises in freedom: places where thought can experiment, deconstruct patterns, and rebuild new inner landscapes. Each work is at once a building and a mental process: a construction that reveals how the reality we inhabit is, first and foremost, a project of the mind.
Tile 20 x 20 cm with mat and black enamelled wooden frame, accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Kiasmo.
Unpublished, brand-new samples not yet present on the Kiasmo website
Ceramics