Luminaire and Yves Behar present
Artists for One Laptop Per Child

Initiated and driven by Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the MIT Media Lab, One Laptop Per Child is a non-profit organization that harnesses cutting-edge personal computer technologies and distributes them worldwide to children in developing countries.
Designing and manufacturing low-cost, child-sized laptops, OLPC's goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. Believing strongly in the aims of this project, Design Miami/ and Luminaire will host an art exhibition, a reception, and an auction to benefit the OLPC initiative.
Yves Behar's fuseproject is the design team in charge of creating the friendly, 3.2-pound, green and white laptop for OLPC. It is called the XO and features remarkable new technologies that can give children in even the most remote regions of the globe the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole new world of ideas and to contribute to a more productive world community.
At Design Miami/ this December, internationally known artists, including Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari, Olafur Eliasson, Ugo Rondinone, Catherine Opie, Richard Tuttle, David Altmedj, and Jorge Pardo will use one of these computers as a starting point to create a unique work of art - painting, drawing, collaging, photographing, or using the material of the laptop in a sculptural installation.
The art pieces will be available for auction online and one hundred percent of the proceeds will support the One Laptop Per Child initiative. The funds generated by the auction will help ensure that children who are currently wait-listed to receive computers can have more immediate access to this important learning tool

"The Farm Project" was created in conjunction with the Dornbracht Edges series to present the kitchen as a stage for life and not as a showroom of design. At Design Miami D 07 Mike Meire wants to bring life back into the kitchen, thereby creating an alternate pole to the minimalist design that has taken over this space in recent years.
The kitchen is a highly complex location, a permanent creation and preparation area. It is the stage on which life is enacted and a workshop for the senses that thrives on improvisation. Accordingly, "The Farm Project" is an improvised living space, filled with materials, animals, plants, and objects.
It is also an attempt to encounter the complexity and the insecurity of our new millennium in a more relaxed manner. "The Farm Project" becomes the focus of longing, a place to be at home, a place where life has regained its original character.