Now in its third edition, RAD Design explores the porous boundary between contemporary art and the objects that structure everyday life. Here, design is not treated as an accessory to art, but as a parallel practice — one that shapes behavior, perception, and social relations.
RAD Design brings together functional objects, spatial propositions, and experimental works that operate between use and expression. By placing domestic and interior elements within the context of the fair, the program highlights design as a cultural force: one that reflects how we live now, and imagines how we might live differently.
RADICAL DOMESTICITY
Curated by Muromuro Studio, Radical Domesticity reimagines the home as a site of social, economic and architectural experimentation. The title itself suggests a return to a conceptual reset, a clean slate from which to reconsider how domestic life is constructed. It invites us to imagine the home not as an inherited script but as a site open to rewriting, where the fundamentals of living can be questioned, dismantled, and reconfigured.
Rather than viewing domestic space as fixed, private, or functionally predetermined, we look at domesticity as a layered environment shaped by shifting habits, evolving forms of cohabitation, and the broader political and social contexts that structure everyday life. This opens space for alternative ways of living that challenge established norms around family, ownership, labour, intimacy and spatial organization.
Within this framework, the exhibition foregrounds works understood both as tools and as agents for rethinking domestic life. The project questions the ordinary, examining how architecture, object-making and small everyday actions can influence perceptions of comfort, care or control inside the home. It highlights the home as a terrain where inovation and design practices mediate daily experiences, reshape routines and make visible the subtle negotiations that occur between individuals and the built environment.
MUROMURO STUDIO
Muromuro Studio is an architecture and design practice founded by architects Ioana Chifu and Onar Stănescu. The studio’s work spans a wide range of typologies, from public spaces and private residences to retail, object design, exhibition design and cultural projects.
Since 2022, with the opening of Grotto Gallery, the duo has expanded its creative path toward contemporary art and curatorial work, exploring the intersection between architecture, design and art, and demonstrating a consistent ability to produce conceptually driven projects.
Their aesthetic is defined by a carefully articulated formal language, a strong interest in materiality, clear geometric forms, and a vision that blends functionality with expressiveness, whether in furniture, interior spaces or exhibition scenography.
In 2025, together with artist Vlad Nancă and curator Cosmina Goagea, Muromuro Studio signs the Human Scale project, representing Romania at the 19th Venice Biennale of Architecture.
