Enzo Mari. Mixing identities
The rules of a game for making the most of the unexpected in everyday life. Domus offers its readers a reproduction of the card game about living, designed in the 1970s by Enzo Mari and Paolo Gallerani for Danese.

The playing cards designed by Enzo Mari in the Seventies aimed to encourage designers to approach the subject of living, and are now in the newsstands with the September issue of Domus magazine. The cards are divided into eight decks with 10 cards each, all the same colour, and every deck represents a different series of situations connected to lifestyle.
On each card there is a short description of the situation: profession, home, place, and so on, with neighbours, flatmates and personal belongings, etc. When the players deal the cards and casually choose some of them, they will face some lifestyle situations, different from what they are used to.
Enzo Mari has used the cards during a course of lectures and workshops at the Urban Planning Laboratory of the Architecture faculty of the University of Milan.
He distributed the cards and defined the identity of each student, who could therefore begin to build real life stories. He outlined the personalities, the relationships and the hierarchies of the characters, as well as the value and the meaning of places and objects: he created complex scenarios that became the foundation of the residential projects he developed afterwards.