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Milan, June 8 2022 – "I AGREE", the project by Israeli designer Dima Yarovinsky, aims to explain the importance of simplifying and making regulations accessible for every citizen.

For the first time in Italy, the work will be installed inside the Citadel of the archives - where it will remain open to visitors until October - on Friday 10 June at 16pm, in the presence of representatives of the Administration, to talk about the work of streamlining and de-bureaucratisation which the Municipality of Milan is carrying out.

The installation was chosen by Design rights as a symbol of legal design, understood as a tool for simplifying the legal system and a key to making people accessible to their rights, in order to improve the relationship between institutions and citizens.

The work, which is part of the Milan Design Week, was created to express human vulnerability in the face of the incomprehensibility of the walls of text that regulate daily life when registering for the main apps or online services.

In fact, in the creation the artist was inspired by the contractual obligations expressed by the "Terms of Service" which every day are accepted by the user unconsciously, because they are written in an incomprehensible way.   

Yavorinsky estimates – based on the fact that the average person reads 200 words per minute and that a standard contract contains 11.972 – that it would take each of us about 60 minutes if we tried to read the terms before accepting them.  

Precisely from these considerations was born the installation "I AGREE" (I accept) which reports the content of the "Terms of Service" of the main online services that are used blindly and daily.

The result is seven colored scrolls hanging on the wall, which contain texts with legal contract fonts and dimensions, including the number of words and the time needed to read them, and express all the fragility of the individual in the face of the so-called giants of the web.   

Dima Yarovinsky is 30 years old, lives in Tel Aviv and is Head of design @Loox. Alongside her work, she works as a lecturer and mentor for young designers. Her project "I AGREE", created at The Bezalel academy of art and design in Jerusalem in 2018, was presented for the first time at Aalto University in Finland in the same year and then hosted in several important events around the world .

Cittadella degli archives is a mechanized archival centre, among the largest in Europe, which preserves the historical memory of Milan. It is located in the heart of the Niguarda district, it preserves over 2,5 million files and files of historical, sociological, cultural and administrative interest produced by public and private bodies, as well as tens of thousands of files produced by the Municipality of Milan every year, and is at the center of an important redevelopment process, also through art and culture.

Design rights is the partnership through which LCA, a law firm with an international vocation specialized in corporate legal and tax consultancy, and Mondora SB Srl, a Benefit corporation part of the TeamSystem group with a tech/innovation focus and clients all over the world, have decided to create the first Italian reality entirely dedicated to Legal design.