The designer is therefore the artist of today, not because he is a genius but because he works in such a way as to re-establish contact between art and the public, because he has the humility and ability to respond to whatever demand is made of him by the society in which he lives… and finally because he responds to the human needs of his time.” Bruno Munari, Design as Art.

[People of the World] presents a collection of 25 cobalt blue and white porcelain plates, each bearing a portrait-like face developed through co-design workshops with Persons with Disabilities. The project questions what design is and explores how it can be approached in a more humanistic way, treating the plate not as a canvas for artistic expression, but as a stable format that allows design attention to shift towards process, participation and care.

The faces emerge from a structured workshop called Portrait Design, where participants are guided through stages of building their own portraits using shapes, gestures and decisions arrived at collectively. Eyes become symbols, expressions shift through simple adjustments and differences exist without hierarchy. Identity here is not fixed or descriptive, but assembled, modular and relational. Portraits function as open structures rather than static representations.

The choice of blue and white plates is intentional. Culturally legible and production-efficient, these familiar objects reduce risk and distraction, allowing the project to focus on refining how participation is structured and valued. The plate becomes a stabilising device that supports continuity, ownership and the circulation of value.

weareSuper proposes a system that links training, learning, co-design, production and retail through shared economic participation. Co-design operates as an infrastructure of care, clear, repeatable and designed to support long-term involvement. Work produced through these sessions enters existing retail systems without symbolic framing. Contributors are positioned as participants within a functioning economy, not recipients of support.
Visitors are invited to look beyond the finished surface and towards the conditions that make its creation possible.