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brings together works that remove a problem from the position that allowed it to appear stable or self-evident, opening it to be reconsidered and acted upon differently.

DISPLACE

2023

IN PIÚ D'ORA.
Seven Drinks from the End of the Night.

In più d’ora is a collection of seven drinks that trace a journey through memory “to the end of the night,” borrowing a paraphrase from the title of Céline’s novel.
Composed and matured between 2019 and 2023, the drinks accompany a passage through a difficult period and are rooted in the peripheral landscape where the author’s studio is located. Each drink is named after a song, inspired by the taste and the situation each potion aims to evoke.
The recipes follow simple steps and allow for interpretative variations, including professional ones, while remaining conceived for domestic, informal, and open environments.

2023

OPERA APERTA, Countless Cities, Biennial of the City of the World", Farm Cultural Park, Favara, Sicily.

Opera Aperta is an installation designed together with Beatrice Fontana and Frank Dittmann, reflecting on the Baugespanne, a distinctive tool of the Swiss building process used to visualize architectural volumes prior to construction. By decontextualizing and stripping the Baugespanne of its original function, the installation reveals its sculptural potential, occupying and reconfiguring the exhibition spaces of Palazzo Miccichè.

2022

TRANSFORMING SPACE.
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

An advanced educational program focused on spatial transformation as an operative practice.
The course activates spatial thinking through design, artistic experimentation, and applied strategies.

2020

JERICHO ROSE.
Modular Event Infrastructure for Festspiele Zurich.

Jericho Rose is an event concept developed to involve the public during the Festspiele Zurich.
The project consists of mobile and modular grandstands that can be assembled into an arena for performances or used independently as urban furniture, hosting workshops and temporary programs beneath.

2018

THE LIVING ARCHIVE.
Strategic Design Workshop for the Activation of Olivetti’s Heritage.
Officine ICO, Ivrea, Italy.

A participatory workshop conceived to operate on heritage as a living condition.
The project frames the territory as an active archive, enabling the transfer of knowledge across places, practices, and generations.

2018

JUNGFRAU PAVILION.
Temporary Pavilion, Steffisburg, Switzerland

The Jungfrau Pavilion is conceived as an architectural contribution to the iconographic tradition of the Jungfrau, initiated by Paul Klee, Arnold Böcklin, and Ferdinand Hodler, and continued by many artists to this day.

2018

LA CITTÀ LIBERA.
Off-Grid Participatory Design City Making.

La Città Libera is a performative installation that explores participatory architectural forms of “off-grid neighbourship”. The project consists of a toolbox designed to stimulate the public imagination toward participatory and self-sufficient urbanization. The toolbox includes 1:50 scale architectural elements used to assemble a hypothetical housing concept hosting eight people according to “Swiss living standards”.

2018

ARTS AND SPACE.
A Study Program for the Education of Spatial Agents.
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

An institutional project that reconfigures arts education as a device for spatial agency. The program proposes new forms of spatial practice by interweaving existing disciplines, curricula, and infrastructures.

2015

FARM-X.
Vertical Urban Farm — Feasibility Study.

Farm-X is a modular vertical urban farm concept that displaces the historical separation between food production and consumption. By bringing large-scale food production back into the city, the project exposes the infrastructural implications of urban agriculture and activates abandoned industrial sites as productive, social, and energetic systems.

2014

ELIOOO.
How to Go to IKEA and Build a Hydroponic Device to Grow Food in Your Apartment.

ELIOOO is an instruction manual that transforms an affordable IKEA product into a domestic hydroponic device, enabling users to grow food at home. By doing so, the project displaces conventional production and distribution models, exposes hidden supply chains, mediates technical knowledge through design, and activates users as manufacturers of an idea.

2013

HOTELLO
Somnia et Labora
Portable Office Hotel Room for Das Konzept

Hotello is a portable living–working unit designed to temporarily inhabit vacant interiors of the contemporary city. Conceived as a minimal and reversible spatial device, it enables the temporary occupation of empty lofts by condensing work and rest into a compact, deployable structure.

2011

MALTHUS.
A Meal a Day. Aquaponic Home Device.

Malthus is an in-home aquaponics unit conceived for the next-generation kitchen or living room.
The system produces one meal per day—a portion of fish and a side salad—by combining fish farming and vegetable cultivation in a closed-loop symbiotic ecosystem. Designed using components commonly available in DIY stores, the project reflects on domestic food production, self-sufficiency, and everyday environmental practices.

2011

HEDRON.
Fish From the Sky With Diamonds. Geodesic Hydroponic - Aquaponic Farm.

Hedron is a geodesic aquaponic rooftop greenhouse designed to relocate food production onto generic flat roofs. By redistributing structural loads and integrating closed-loop farming systems, the project displaces agriculture into the vertical dimension of the city, exposes the constraints of rooftop cultivation, and activates buildings as productive infrastructures.

2011

READYKEA.
Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism - Exhibition Design at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich.

Readykea is an exhibition design project developed for Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich.
By hacking IKEA’s customer satisfaction policy, the project achieved a zero-cost and zero-waste exhibition scenography, using temporarily assembled IKEA components that were returned after the exhibition.

2011

TRAMPOLINES.
Suite Hotel, Riccione, Italy.

An architectural project structured through the separation of distribution and form.
The facade becomes the primary architectural device.

2011

UF01.
Aquaponic Rooftop Farm, Basel, Switzerland.

An aquaponic farming system installed on an industrial rooftop. Greenhouses and container-based infrastructures are displaced from the ground and reassembled as urban architecture.

2009

JUST UNDO IT.
How to Transform a Hoodie Into (Nearly) Anything.

Just Undo It is a collection of everyday objects generated by folding a hoodie.
The project reflects on design as a form of information and narrative capable of transforming what already exists, proposing a “product less” rather than a “product more”.

2009

WIRED (UNPLUGGED).
How to Destroy the First Issue of Wired UK and Make Something with It.

A collection of everyday objects produced by dismantling and reassembling a printed magazine. The project displaces editorial content into material practice, exposing new forms of circulation, value, and use.

2008

RIKEA.
Community Project, Flea Market Turin, Italy.

RIKEA is a community-based project developed for the Ballon flea market in Porta Palazzo, Turin, conceived as a system of microstructures for instant urbanization.
Developed through a participatory process with local merchants, IKEA, and Italcementi, the project proposes a modular and reversible infrastructure addressing everyday spatial needs within an informal urban context.

2007

HUMAN CAMOUFLAGE.
Uniform Pattern for Civil Purposes.

Human Camouflage, initially designed for a humanitarian organization to demine fields in war zones, symbolically aims to camouflage civilians in today’s multicultural society.

2004

DREAMING WALL.
Public Installation, Milano, Italy.

Dreaming Wall is a vertical public space conceived as a real-time information forum, where messages appear and disappear through a light-based chemical process. By displacing communication from screens to architecture, the project activates collective expression and exposes the city’s subconscious as a transient, shared condition.

2001

HUMAN WORLD.
A Demographic Atlas of Politics of Culture.

Human World aims to display 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 = 1,000 people.

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