"VERGANGENHEIT IM VORGARTEN. Die Panzersperre als Relikt". Exhibition Design at Museum Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau.
The now obsolete remnants of Cold War-era defence strategies aimed at protecting national neutrality have gained new symbolic and cognitive value, reinterpreted by artists as monuments trouvés.
Drawing on the architectural axes of the Forum Schlossplatz, the layout is guided by metaphorical “lines of fire,” shaping a clear and immersive visitor journey.
The scenography serves the curatorial vision by turning the museum into a dynamic narrative environment.
ASSEMBLEA. An Open Infrastructure for Humans, Animals, Pants and Insects.
Designed as an ecological infrastructure, the wall provides habitat for plants, insects, and animals. It is conceived as an “open project” that sets the foundation for other groups of students to expand and complete the perimeter of @giada.sociale, in the future.
IN PIÚ D'ORA. Seven Drinks from the End of the Night.
The seven drinks describe a trip down memory lane "to the end of the night" to steal a bit of paraphrase from the title poem of Céline's novel, to describe the passing through a difficult period, accompanied to the edge of the city where my studio is located and where these seven vertigoes were composed and then matured between 2019 and 2023, taking this form. Each of them has been given the name of a song, inspired by the taste and situation that each of my potions should capture.
The recipes have simple steps and lend themselves to the interpretative variations, even professional ones, of those who decide to perform them. Still, in their nature, they have been imagined to be composed at home, in the countryside, in a meadow, at the seaside.
INCLUSIVE DESIGN. ETH Exhibition at House of Switzerland - Milano Design week 2023.
The Exhibition Inclusive Design at Milano Design Week is designed as an architectural prosthetics made by hacking existing top Swiss products to showcase leading research and development on inclusive design strategies.
TEMPIETTO R. Cork Oak Nursery for the Ramarro Association Caltagirone, Sicily, (under construction).
Tempietto R. is a nursery designed to be constructed with the exclusive use of roof battens in collaboration with architecture students to replace an existing greenhouse previously burned by arson. The structure follows the simple logic and proportion of a "temple" to celebrate the holy spirits of the "genius loci" impersonated by the volunteers of the Ramarro Association who are protecting the natural forest from criminal arsons.
The project was realized within the initiative "Bosco Colto", promoted by Marco Navarra as an architectural and landscape laboratory to explore innovative ways and practices to inhabit the territory surrounding the city of Caltagirone.
THE INNOCENT CHAIR AND OTHER STORIES. Milano Design Week 2022, Installation at Isola Design District.
An abandoned seller was activated for the installation as a place of fantasies and memories. The installation, infact, consists of a mere composition of ropes, bare wood, and shadows.
TENUN IKAT SIKKA. Fashion Booth, Empowering Sikka's Weavers Community, Indonesia.
The fashion booth is an exhibition scenography device to store, transport and showcase the Ikat from Sikka products in multiple locations.
"Tenun Ikat Sikka" is an association that protects the practice, the tradition, the knowledge and the intellectual rights of the recently acknowledged Geographical Indication (GI) of the Ikat technique from Sikka Indonesia.
'AS FOUND': OPEN MOBILE KITCHEN.
Neighbourship Making via Informal Together Cooking.
The project aimed to activate BA design students to design and build mobile kitchen modules made exclusively with parts assembled "as found". Our work is conceived as a device to interweave a "new" neighbourhood using food as an intercultural language.
ART AND SPACE. Study Program Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Space Design Education (BA/MA/PhD) at Zurich University of the Arts
ARTS and SPACE is a project commissioned by the Zurich University of the Arts to design a new study program that involves all five school departments (Music, Theater, Cultural Mediations and Design) involving a major-minor system, to educate a new form of space expert or a space agent that can activate space transformation through the arts, culture and design summarized in five actions.
The program is designed to interweave the existing study programs allowing the possibility to maximize the current curriculums and allowing students to customize their interdisciplinary profiles.
The project results from a two-year participation program with the faculty members of all five departments.
Below is an extract from "The Knowledge of the Form" published in "Art, Self & System", edited by Donatella Bernardi and Published by SternBerg Press in 2019.
THE LIVING ARCHIVE.
Strategic Design Workshop for the Activation of the Olivetti's Heritage. Officine ICO, Ivrea, Italy.
The workshop's goal was to develop a vision for strategic and sustainable development of the Olivetti Factories within the frame of the newly acknowledged UNESCO site of Ivrea Industrial City of the 20th Century through a participatory process involving local and international stakeholders. The workshop led to a roadmap defined as the "Living Archive": a vision that sees the territory as the tangible and intangible archive of the Olivetti's heritage.
EDIBLE EDEN.
Edible Eden is a piece made for the 100c Wastewater Bottle Art Exhibition, at K11 Design Store, Hong Kong. Artists and designer were asked to transform a Primvus mineral bottle water. Edible Eden use the bottle as a vase to grow a head of salad with homeopathic doses of human urines.
HIC et NUNC III.
ZHdK, Interdisciplinary Module, Activation of a Asylum Seekers Camp, Zurich.
HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now, in Latin) stands for a design attitude. With this motto, we invited design students to take concrete action, which can be realized in four weeks, to improve the life quality in a refugee camp in Zurich. HIC ET NUNC III is the third workshop of a series, in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich.
HIC ET NUNC I.
ZHdK, Interdisciplinary Module, Activation of a Asylum Seekers Camp, Zurich.
HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now, in Latin) stands for a design attitude. With this motto, we invited design students to take concrete action, which can be realized in four weeks, to improve the life quality in a refugee camp in Zurich. HIC ET NUNC II is the first workshop of a series in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich.
HIC ET NUNC II.
ZHdK, Interdisciplinary Module, Activation of a Asylum Seekers Camp, Zurich.
HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now, in Latin) stands for a design attitude. With this motto, we invited design students to take concrete action, which can be realized in four weeks, to improve the life quality in a refugee camp in Zurich. HIC ET NUNC II is the second workshop of a series in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich.
ALTARI UMILI.
(Humble Altars, For Lay Religions). Street Food Furniture for Milano Expo 2015 (with Gianmaria Sforza).
Altari Umili is a street food furniture designed for the common areas of Milano EXPO 2015. The table is designed to celebrate, symbolically, the lay spirituality of food production and the convivial moments of food degustation.
ELIOOO.
How To Go To IKEA And Build An Hydroponic Device To Grow Food In Your Apartment.
Eliooo is an instruction manual to transform an affordable IKEA product into a hydroponic device to grow food at home and, in doing so, transform IKEA into a distributor of a supply of products that do not exist and you into a manufacturer of an idea.
ORTO PERPETUO.
Orto Perpetuo is a reflection upon the colours and textures of vegetable gardens. It is a contemporary garden which has come to our homes by way of the countryside. It has adjusted to indoor life through out-of-soil cultivation methods, with the help of artificial light. Its fruits are as little as our teeny-tiny apartments.
HOTELLO.
Somnia et Labora. Portable Office / Hotel Room for Das Konzept.
Designed in collaboration with visual artist Roberto DeLuca for the swiss firm das Konzert, 'Hotello', the four sqm unit is conceived to temporarily inhabit the contemporary city's empty lofts.
MALTHUS.
A Meal a Day. Aquaponic Home Device.
Malthus is an in-home aquaponics unit designed for the next generation kitchen or living room. It grows one meal a day: a portion of fish and a side salad. Aquaponics farming is a technique that combines the cultivation of fish with the growing of vegetables. The fish provides rich fertilizer for the plants, and in return, the plants clean the water from the tank. The fish and the plants co-exist in a symbiotic relationship.
READYKEA.
Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism - Exhibition Design at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich.
Only Capitalism can smash Capitalism. With this assumption, the exhibition "Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism" at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich was designed to hack IKEA's customer satisfaction policy resulting in zero costs and zero waste for the exhibition.
Indeed, the exhibition scenography is entirely made thanks to the use of IKEA's Trofast boxes, temporarily assembled with zip ties. In this way, the zip ties are afterwards cut off. The boxes were taken back to the store for reimbursement, profiting from the customer satisfaction policy, according to which the exhibition was scheduled.
TANTOOO.
The Fairy Tale Beanbag.
TANTOOO is a fairytale beanbag, designed as a place where read, and write, fairytales.
IMPACT HUB ZURICH.
The Impact Hub is a co-working space, part of a worldwide network. The project consists of the interior design inside two iconic arches under the viaduct, fulfilling two different functional programs: co-working and events.
YOKALENTERI.
Night Calendar. Collaboration with Cia Rinne.
Yokalenteri means, in Finnish, night calendar. The project consists of a large inkjet print: one centimetre per day in width and one millimetre per minute of the day, in length.
JUST UNDO IT.
How to Transform a Hoodie Into (Nearly) Anything.
Just Undo It is a collection of everyday objects made by folding a hoodie. The project reflects on design, a form of information or narrative that can transform what we can find around us with the idea that design should provide, today, a product "less" rather than a product "more".
WIRED (Unplugged).
How to Destroy the First Issue of Wired UK and Make Something with It.
They say printed magazines are dead. Wired Unplugged is a "how-to" project to give them a second life. Wired Unplugged is a collection of everyday objects designed to be made with pages of the first issue of Wired UK.
RIKEA.
Community Project, Flea Market Turin, Italy.
Microstructures for instant urbanization, Porta Palazzo's flea market square, Turin. [with Marco Lampugnani]
HUMAN CAMOUFLAGE. Uniform Pattern for Civil Purposes.
Human Camouflage, initially designed for a humanitarian organization to demine fields in war zones, aims (symbolically) to camouflage civilians in today's multicultural society.
ITALIA IN FUMO.
In Defence of the Italian Constitution, Participatory Installation, Milano, Italy.
Italia in Fumo (in Italian "Italy up in Smoke") is a project for the promotion of the Italian Constitution made in collaboration with the graphic designer Peppe Clemente. Its fundamental articles and the rights and duties of the citizens are framed within the graphic device of the EU non-smoking policy. The project involved designing a DIY graphic device to transform all possible citizens as the media to promote one of the most beautiful Constitutions ever written.
RE-USE. Sustainable Behaviour.
Re-Use is designed to empower the user to become an "anticonsumer" and create a notebook with the verso of A4 office paper.
The project started in 2004 to offer a tool to implement tangible ways of approaching environmental sustainability.
VALOKALENTERI.
The Calendar of Light.
Valokalenteri means, in Finnish, "light calendar". It shows the minutes in which the sun is above the horizon at Helsinki latitudes. The project consists of a large inkjet print: one centimetre per day in width and one millimetre per minute of the day in length. The night is displayed in black during the day in white.
HUMAN WORLD. A Demographic Atlas of Politics of Culture.
Human World aims at displaying the world's political and cultural information on a population basis. The project raises the question of understanding the politics of culture as a demographic challenge. In these cartograms, each country is scaled proportionally to its population: 1 pixel = 1000 people.