Practice of consumption and spaces for foods/retail futures

The borders of interiors discipline, traditionally blurring with art, design and architecture, thanks to its culturally and politically situated nature, now include a complex network of knowledge, an interdisciplinary space in which many other disciplines and different actors route to embrace instruments and methods of enquiry. Interior architecture and design has today to deal with strategy, business, and politics, inventing new frameworks able to engage and innovate: a wider knowledge to fit the ever-changing world's challenges.
In this framework, Retail Design, both in research and practice, is particularly relevant as an expression of this disciplinary shift, with an approach characterized by experimentation and a strong relational dimension. “Practice of Consumption” explores what seems today to be one of the distinctive features we can use to describe the social, political and economic phenomenologies which, for better or worse, influence our lives.