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Re-Use Published on “Design Sostenibile: Oggetti, Sistemi, e Comportamenti.”

scarponio — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:50:39 +0000

Re-Use, the DIY diary and note pad that reuses discarded A4 was recently published in Design Sosenibile by Paolo Tamborrini, Electa, Milano 2009, pp. 114-115. This book looks into the debate surrounding the role of design on sustainable development, summarizing the most important milestones in a process that has made people aware that design, and hence designers, entrepreneurs, communicators, distributors and final users must all play a vital role in achieving sustainable development.

The Hub Zurich: Toilet/Kitchen Combo Presentation.

scarponio — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:15:21 +0000

The 1st Hub Zürich Summer Celebration on the 27th of August 2010, from 19.00 – 24.00 at the Hub Zürich, IM VIADUKT. In coherence with local Swiss traditions, bring along what you want to put on the BBQ. The Hub Zurich will take care of drinks, salads and side-dishes.
For the occasion the concept Toilet/Kitchen Combo will be presented and hopefully open to the public. This is a spatial device that contain a combination of Toilet and Kitchen designed and prototyped for The Hub Zurich as emblematic facility for open and co-working spaces.

The Hub Zurich Co-Working Space for Social Innovators: Construction Started.

scarponio — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:41:36 +0000

As we are facing multiple crises in the global economic, social and ecological spheres, innovative solutions are needed to tackle the many challenges at hand. The Hub is designed to facilitate these solutions by creating a global network of collaborative spaces where entrepreneurs and social innovators come together to realize their ideas for a sustainable society. Already present in 22 cities and over 60 emerging around the world, The Hub provides flexible work, meeting and event space to create a habitat for social innovation.
People from every profession, background and culture are being united by one thing – the imagination and drive to pursue enterprising ideas for a ‘radically better world’. These are the people who see and do things differently, driven by their entrepreneurial passion to create true value. The Hub is becoming the place they call home. An enabling space for social innovation. The place where change goes to work.

The Hub Zürich is centrally located in two arches of the beautiful “IM VIADUKT“ for an overall surface of 400 square meters. Having two separate arches allows for two distinct Hub environments: a flexible work space where things gets done in a focused atmosphere and a buzzing interaction space where people can meet, learn and connect. The interior space is resolved through two different spacial devices that organize the program accordingly: a wall unit that connect two different areas of the working space and a grandstand for informal meeting and public presentation that question the space as an interior landscape within the arches’ volts. More pictures of the HUB Zurich on Flickr.

The Hub Zurich will start the construction this week. Basic service should be available by the end of September. Grand opening by the beginning of 2011.

TOI_Things of Internet. Graphic Templates for DIY Leaflets

scarponio — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:25:59 +0000

Everything that has happened over the last 20 years of Internet is now happening in the real world. We navigate across the Earth’s surface and have the ability to tag, save, comment and share the places we live in, as we would do with a website we enjoy. Everything in the world is interconnected, like internet html pages are with one another.

TOI is a system of graphic templates for do-it-yourself leaflets designed for Vestire i Paesaggi, and used as an archival tool for territorial cultural activities. For TOI, the territory itself is the archive. TOI’s graphic templates use two types of tags: analog tags (shelf marks that define categories of intervention) and digital tags (sematags that resolve into multimedia contents and augment the information of things and places related, providing access to online archival documentation).

Booklets, postcards, headed papers, posters are designed to be printed on the back of A4 already used paper. TOI graphic templates are downloadable as SVG and as PDF and distributed under Creative Commons license.

Instant book: Download Template PDF | SVG | How to Video.

Headed Paper: Download Template PDF | SVG | How to video.

Headed Brochure: Download Template PDF | SVG | How to video.

Archive Record: Download Template PDF | SVG | How to video.

Post Card / Envelope: Download Template PDF | SVG | How to video.

25/05/10 Trampolines Opening (cocktail party) @ 18.00

scarponio — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:26:00 +0000

On the 26th of May we will open the Trampolines, an historical restaurant in Riccione, Italy. This will be the second biggest building with Corian® facades in Europe. The opening will celebrate the first tranche of a complex building including a four stars suite hotel that will be opened in early 2011. The building is conceived as a Corian® shell that surrounds the building like a cloud. For the opening the restaurant and the first level of facade will be completed. Cocktail party starts at 18.00. Hope to see you there.

Many thanks to the core people who worked in the design and construction process: Andrea Zausa, Stefano Massa, Francesco Calzolari, Federico Pacher, Nazarena Manenti, Susan Park, Maja Westman.

Italy Up in Smoke @ Milano Design Week

scarponio — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:57:10 +0000

The Italian Constitution, if compared with the real country, looks like a subversive manifesto.

Italy up in Smoke is a project for the promotion of the Italian Constitution abroad. The articles (in English) are framed into the non smoking graphic policy of the European Community. Italy up in Smoke is a way to say basta. We want to let everyone know what our constitution say. We want to say it loud, we want to say it now and we want to say it to an international audience. It is time for designers to take a position.

This is an Italia in fumo special edition with the article n.3. Here you can download the DIY kit. If you happen to be in Milan for the design week, join us at bar basso Saturday the 17th at 23.00. If you come with an “Italy Up in Smoke” t-shirt you will get a drink offered from us.

Human World as cover for an India China Institute publication.

scarponio — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:54:31 +0000

Many years ago (2001) I have made a collection of world maps where political and cultural information were displayed on a demographic basis. It came out what it is now the conceptual world picture that frame our office’s work. The project was titled Human World. The idea is that demographic boom is the frame in which contemporary society must be understood today. I have started to develop this work in the summer before 9/11. I believed that we were looking upon the world with the wrong lenses. With the wrong tools.

The first world map I have made was Internet users (2001). In this map each country was proportionally enlarged to the people connected to the net. The blue of the ocean was representing people non connected. I wanted to visualize how many people are actually connected to the net, how many people are able to produce, share and consume information. Today’s world is is a demographic world. People are able to communicate in real time even without spatial continuity. Each of us contributes to the production and consumption of the world broadcast. Each of us is a micro media. Accesses are the new boundaries of today’s world. The issue is who’s connected and who’s not and where the information out there is coming from. I have made many projects that where exploring this paradigm, speaking of the world as a human factor, and that’s what I am still doing.

Human World is a representation of the word from the point of view of the population. Each state is proportionally enlarged to their respective inhabitants. I have being showing issue like “how many people lives in democratic countries” or how many people lives in countries where the death penalty is enforced. In order to do so, I have “hacked” Alighiero Boetti‘s work. I wanted to update his world picture made of physical boundaries in order to introduce the human dimension.

I was asked to give the permission to use this map as a cover for a publication of the India China Institute at the New School, NYC. It made so much sense for the me to let the use of my work for this kind of publication. As architect I wanted to raise what I consider the main issue related to our times and use a picture to say that “times are a-changing” and to stop talking about the style of the chairs we keep designing. It is time to challenge our work as an idea of society and not as a formal principle.

Just Undo It @ WIRED ITALIA

scarponio — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:35:15 +0000

A hoodie is not just a hoodie. In a world full of stuff, smart items should be transformable, editable. They should engage the possibility to be transformed into something else. We do not need a new object, a new thing. Rather we need to get rid of some of them, to reduce the complex network of things around us.

Just undo it is a collection of reversible objects that could be made from a hoodie at no cost, no particular knowledge nor tools.
The instructions about how to make a computer sleeve was just published in this month issue of WIRED Italia. Check it out.

No-Stop thinking. An interview with Andrea Branzi.

scarponio — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:02:24 +0000

Stefano Mirti published on Abitare’s blog this interview I have made with Andrea Branzi in November 2004. The original version was released in 2005: ‘Andrea Branzi: la ville continue [Interview with Andrea Branzi]’ in Moniteur Architecture AMC no.150 March 2005 / p.88-94. It was never published in Italian before, so thank you Stefano.

Yökalenteri / Night Calendar (Rêvalités) @ Terra Infirma, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY

scarponio — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:02:23 +0000

Yökalenteri means, in Finnish language, “Night Calendar”. A calendar that displays the minutes of night time in Helsinki throughout the year. Yökalenteri hosts “Rêvalités”, a work of Finnish Poet and writer Cia Rinne.”Rêvalités” consists of 36 mini prose pieces, dreams recorded during the time span of a year, which thematically deal with a variety of issues.

Yökalentari (Inkjet on paper 375×154 cm) will be on display at “Terra Infirma“, curated by Chiara Sartori, visiting curator at ISCP, NY. “Terra Infirma” gathers the works of six international renowned artists, exploring the ways in which a geographical context is able to affect emotions. Addressing feelings of melancholy and sorrow, the exhibition tentatively links attempts to interact with, modify and understand natural phenomena, landscapes and geographical codifications with the subtle and ephemeral emotional dimension of human existence.

Participating Artists: Rosa Barba, Laurent Grasso, Alban Hajdinaj, Marie Velardi.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Friday, January 15, 2-16
Open weekly until February 14 every Saturday and Sundays 2-6 PM

ISCP. International Studio & Curatorial Program
1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.iscp-nyc.org

Re-Use 2010: the DIY diary made it again

scarponio — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:46:53 +0000

Re-Use is a diy diary that allow you to save 50% of the office A4 paper you discard. Download the PDF file and print it on the unused side of your boring papers. The 2010 Re-Use PDF file is available here.
Print it- fold it – punch it – bind it. The graphics are designed in a way that with one single layout you can have three different formats: A4-A5-A6. Re-Use is free and under Creative Commons – not commercial – share alike licence. Happy new year!

Tools’n Toys

scarponio — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:09:57 +0000

Conferenza Antonio Scarponi, giovedi 10_12_09 H 15:00, Politecnico di Milano_Sede Piacenza_Aula 6. No related posts. No related posts.

Italia in fumo online show

scarponio — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:00:52 +0000

Our project Italia in fumo will be exhibited online at “the word is yours“. Opening 15th of October at 00.00 until November 19th at 23.00. Care of Gaspare Caliri.

Italia in fumo is a project in collaboration with Peppe Clemente for the promotion of the Italian constitution. The articles are framed within the graphic appearance of the non smoking policy of the European Community. Italia in fumo means, in Italian, “Italy made of smoke” and “Italy is burning out”. Our intent is to claim the deep gap between the actual country and the beauty of its constitution. You can download DIY devices for “non smoking” Italian Constitution here.

City Talks: Metamorfosi Urbane.

scarponio — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:49:58 +0000

Friday 16 th October at 11.00 am talk “Manuali Metropolitani / istruzioni per l’uso” @ festival della creatività, sala dell’arco, fortezza da basso, Firenze.

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RIKEA Honorable Mention @ International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam.

scarponio — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:24:51 +0000

Yeeeeeeeehh!!!

In the course of the Symposium “The Future of the Informal” at the 4th International Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (NAI Rotterdam) the winners of the Squatcity-Urbaninform Competition have been announced.

The winning projects and honorable mentions were selected by the Squatcity-Urbaninform Jury out of 60 entries in the categories: DESIGN (Space, Technology and Material), SOCIO-ECONOMICS (Participation and Empowerment) and POLITICS (Good Urban Governance). The Jury was composed of members of the IABR curatorial team: Tim Rieniets (IABR), Fabienne Hoelzl (IABR), Can Altay (IABR-Refuge), Michelle Provoost (IABR-Makable Society), Georgeen Theodore (IABR-Community), Stephen Cairns (IABR-Reciprocity), Bart Goldhoorn (IABR-Collective) and Rainer Hehl (IABR-Squat).