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.
THE INNOCENT CHAIR (and Other Stories). Installation at Konzepthaus Laboratorium, Thun, Switzerland.
Two men meet in an abandoned countryside in the shade of an olive tree, or perhaps in the shadow of a rusty sheet metal roof. The first man is a farmer. The second is a lawyer. The farmer needs help, and the lawyer works as a volunteer for an organization that reactivates land confiscated from the mafias and is there to advise the farmer on how to start a path to legality.
This scene is fictional, from Antonio Scarponi’s imaginative design process. But it is a clear image, resurfaced as he was working on a project for a mobile pavilion that could host this kind of activity in southern Italy, imagining this kind of encounter and this kind of relationship between two men or perhaps two brave women rebelling against their fate.
Scarponi wondered about the symbolic form of a chair, dropped into this context that he designed and where those two men or those two women, were supposed to meet. In this place, the Innocent Chair was born as a symbolic way not to accept the world but to transform the small part of it into our hands.
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.
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.
HOW TO: EASY HYDROPONICS.
Instruction Manual for United Nations World Food Program.
"How to Easy Hydroponics" is an instruction manual to promote hydroponic farming in South American's favelas commissioned by the United Nations World Food Program.
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.
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.