VERGANGENHEIT IM VORGARTEN.
Die Panzersperre als Relikt.
Museum Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau.

An exhibition that addresses Cold War–era tank barriers as relics whose original defensive function has collapsed. Through symbolic and mediatic exposure, these structures re-emerge as historical, symbolic, and cognitive conditions embedded in the everyday landscape.

ASSEMBLEA.
An Open Infrastructure for Humans, Animals, Plants, and Insects.

Assemblea is an open ecological infrastructure conceived as a shared habitat for humans, plants, insects, and animals. The project operates as an open-ended spatial device that mediates ecological relations and activates collective processes of care and construction over time.

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.

VERDICHTUNG ODER VERDRÄNGUNG?
When New Buildings Replace.
ZAZ Museum Bellerive, Zurich.

A spatial installation that brings the conflict of urban densification into visibility. Processes of demolition and replacement are exposed through displaced architectural elements.

TEMPIETTO R.
Cork Oak Nursery for the Ramarro Association.
Caltagirone, Sicily.

Tempietto R. is a nursery designed to be built exclusively using roof battens, developed with architecture students to replace a greenhouse previously destroyed by arson.
Conceived according to the simple proportions of a “temple,” the structure celebrates the genius loci embodied by the volunteers of the Ramarro Association, who protect the cork oak forest from criminal fires.
The project was developed within Bosco Colto, an architectural and landscape laboratory promoted by Marco Navarra in the territory surrounding Caltagirone.

INCLUSIVE DESIGN.
ETH Exhibition at House of Switzerland,
Milano Design Week 2023.

Inclusive Design is an exhibition presented at Milano Design Week 2023, developed as an architectural prosthesis. By hacking existing Swiss products, the exhibition showcases research and development on inclusive design strategies and assistive technologies.

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.

THE INNOCENT CHAIR AND OTHER STORIES.
Milano Design Week 2022, Installation at Isola Design District.

An installation composed of ropes, suspended chairs, and projected shadows.
Light and gravity articulate a spatial condition in which objects appear as relational bodies.

THE INNOCENT CHAIR (and Other Stories).
Installation and Instruction Book.
Konzepthaus Laboratorium, Thun, Switzerland.

The Innocent Chair (and Other Stories) is an installation and a book of instructions that reflects on design as a form of knowledge rather than product-making, imagining humble devices as tools for ethical, social, and spatial transformation.

TRANSFORMING SPACE CANVAS

A design tool conceived to structure and transfer knowledge during collective design processes.
The canvas operates as a shared spatial framework to align goals, actions, and temporal sequences.

DIGITAL WALDEN.
Resilient Strategies in the Digital Forest.
A Pavilion Built with “As Found” Materials by BA Design Students.

Digital Walden is an educational and experimental spatial project that translates the literary archetype of Walden into a contemporary reflection on digital labor, autonomy, and resilience. Through the transfer of construction knowledge across contexts and the activation of hands-on building practices, the project exposes the conditions of work and independence in the “digital forest” of our time.

UDATEGIA.
Temporary Greenhouse Pavilion, Institute for Basque Architecture, San Sabastian, Spain.

A temporary pavilion conceived as a device for cultivation, climate control, and collective use. The structure activates growth as a spatial and social condition.

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.

POP-UP KITCHEN.
As-Found Mobile Cooking Devices.

A set of mobile kitchen devices built through the assembly of as-found materials.
Food operates as a spatial and cultural interface to activate temporary forms of neighbourhood and exchange.

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.

LA CITTÁ 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”.

HESJE.
Temporary Pavilion Participatory Process with Kaspar Asylum Seekers Centre and Norwegian Theatre Academy Scenography Students.

Hesje is a temporary pavilion developed through a participatory design–build process in an asylum seekers centre in Norway. By translating a vernacular fishing structure into a collective construction, the project mediates the transmission of cultural and constructive knowledge and activates a shared space for gathering and celebration.

EDIBLE EDEN.

Edible Eden is a small-scale installation developed for the 100c Wastewater Bottle Art Exhibition at K11 Design Store in Hong Kong. Using a mineral water bottle as a hydroponic vessel nourished with diluted human urine, the project exposes hidden nutrient cycles, mediates alternative forms of knowledge transfer, and activates a radical reflection on consumption, branding, and fertility.

LANDWORKS CALABRIA/ COSENZA (SELVA OSCURA).
Landscape installation for the Activation of the Historical Center of Cosenza, Italy.

Cosenza Selva Oscura is a landscape installation developed within the Landworks Calabria workshop series, conceived for the reactivation of the historical center of Cosenza.
The project is based on the participatory involvement of international architecture and landscape students and local inhabitants to upgrade a degraded public square through a temporary spatial intervention.

HIC ET NUNC III.
ZHdK, Interdisciplinary Module. Activation of an Asylum Seekers Camp, Zurich.

HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now, in Latin) defines a design attitude grounded in immediate, situated action within fragile contexts. HIC ET NUNC III, developed with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich, focused on mediating practical and ethical knowledge to activate semi-private and protected spaces within an asylum seekers camp.

HOW TO: EASY HYDROPONICS.
Instruction Manual for the United Nations World Food Program.

How to: Easy Hydroponics is an instruction manual commissioned by the United Nations World Food Program to promote accessible hydroponic farming practices in South American favelas.
Designed to support bottom-up food production, the manual translates hydroponic techniques into simple, low-cost instructions adaptable to informal urban contexts.

HIC ET NUNC II.
ZHdK, Interdisciplinary Module Activation of an Asylum Seekers Camp, Zurich.

HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now, in Latin) defines a design attitude grounded in situated action under constraint. HIC ET NUNC II, developed with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich, mediated the transfer of practical and ethical knowledge required to enter, read, and act within an asylum seekers camp through small, realizable interventions.

HIC ET NUNC I.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Spatial Activation in an Asylum Seekers Camp, Zurich.

HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now) defines a design attitude focused on immediate, situated action.
HIC ET NUNC I is the first workshop of a series developed with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich, in which students activated small-scale spatial interventions to improve everyday life in an asylum seekers camp.

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.

ORTO PERPETUO.

Orto Perpetuo is a reflection on the colors and textures of vegetable gardens translated into a contemporary domestic environment. It is an indoor edible garden that brings the countryside into the home through out-of-soil cultivation methods and artificial light, adapting food production to the scale and constraints of urban living.

BRICK OF MARSEILLES.
A Participatory Landscape Infrastructure.

Brick of Marseilles is a participatory landscape project that develops a constructive system for dry walls functioning as ecological corridors and plug-in public infrastructures. Through the transfer of artisanal knowledge and on-site prototyping, the project translates territorial conditions into an operable system that activates inhabitants and students as builders of their environment.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

ITALIA IN FUMO.
In Defence of the Italian Constitution, Participatory Installation, Milano, Italy.

Italia in Fumo (in Italian, Italy up in Smoke) is a participatory project for the promotion and cultural defence of the Italian Constitution, developed in collaboration with graphic designer Peppe Clemente.
The project frames the Constitution’s fundamental articles and civic duties within the visual language of the EU non-smoking policy, transforming citizens into active media for constitutional awareness.

RE-USE.
Sustainable Behaviour.

Re-Use is a design project conceived to empower users to become “anticonsumers” by transforming already-used A4 office paper into a personal notebook. Initiated in 2004, the project proposes a tangible, everyday tool for practicing environmental sustainability through reuse rather than replacement.
The project started in 2004 to offer a tool to implement tangible ways of approaching environmental sustainability.

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.