IN USE: Scaffoldings
This project aims to reconsider public spaces and rise up awareness on their new possibilities. Looking back at history, public spaces are loosing the meaning of their original purpose. In the ancient greek times they were used as gathering point to create discussions and meeting within the habitants of cities. Today in this difficult times and with the rise of technology, we are getting detached from those spaces, avoiding and forgetting what it means to be outside surrounded by people. The project researches new methods about re-experience public spaces, by using scaffoldings as mediums. Largely placed around the city, they are structural elements, whiten elementary construction process, which allows to easily design on them. They are temporarily used. Built by workers, placed between the public ground and the facade of private houses, seen by everyone. “In use: scaffoldings” intervenes in this scenario, questioning a different use of them, in the time they are unused by the workers. It creates a platform to facilitate communication between the main character of scaffoldings: the worker - owner of the scaffolding -, the tenant - the owner of the house -, and the pedestrian. The aim is to create a network where citizens are aware of the possibilities in public spaces in order to generate and stimulate interactions and promulgate different approaches. The first one tested, an exchange of letters placed on the scaffolding to be picked up by everyone passing by. The idea is to set an open dialogue and collect opinions around the main topic of public spaces.
Linea Maixei
Walking a story
Dry stone walls are an ancient human artefacts of hostile territories, which ease the arability of land. It is a long lost building tradition consisting in the constructions of stones bonded together by the soil, typically from the mountainous areas around the Mediterranean sea. It is considered a counterbalanced relationship between man and nature, dry stone walls are in need of constant maintenance due to changed conditions of land use, they are in advanced state of abandonment and degra- dation. It is especially visible in the Parco delle Cinque Terre, a locality in the north of Italy, which is distinguished by its steep mountains in contact with the sea, considered an ideal area for landscape manipulation. Nowadays, the surrounding areas are populated by communities which experienced the change of the ter- ritory over time; witnessing how nature has reclaimed what man modified, an act of re-appropriation. Linea Maixei is a research that reveals the hidden stories of a landscape from different perspectives, with the aim of preserving the land and its beautiful and peculiar characteristics. The research focuses on the experience of one path through the eye and the knowledge of six different locals. collaboration with Matteo Viviano
KABK Graduation Show
Graphic Identity
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Altrove
Graphic identity for the event TEDxLerici 2023.
Cambiavento
Graphic identity for the event TEDxLerici 2021.
The logo is a collection of the most characteristics building and icons of the town of Lerici. The three waves remind to the sea and the mountains, typical of the ligurian landscape. The colors recall to nature: both the green mountains and the blue see, red on the other hand is the classic color of TED.
About Coffee
Illustration for IllyCaffe and Fondazione Pistoletto contest. Winner project. Starting point of the first graphic work was a research into the production of coffee. In today’s society, we no longer ask ourselves what is the path of the production of the food we consume. We are used to receive the final product, but never assisting the full chain of production. Through a study into botanical illustration related to coffee plant, flower and seed, my graphical representation aims to draw the attention of the consumer on the production system of the food consumed. In the final drawing, we see a harmonious development that goes from the coffee bean, through the plant, to the flower. This represents a continuous reproduction cycle, fundamental for the balance of nature in support of sustainability
Rinse Off
An application of starch on roving wool
The Netherlands is the world leader in the potato industry in terms of potato production, potato exports, and potato processing. Potatoes fields occupy almost one-fourth of the country’s arable land, providing over 500 different varieties of potatoes, which differ in water content and starch level. Starch production varies from food industry to material industry. In the textile industry starch has been used as a ‘temporary’ stiffener for centuries, mainly to ease the weaving process of fragile yarns such as wool. This process, called sizing, uses starch on ‘twisted’ threads consequently reducing some qualities of the raw material itself. Being inspired by the industrial process of textile production, ‘Rinse off’ focuses on maximising the potential of starch by applying it directly on untwisted wool. What starch does is creating a protective layer around the fibers, allowing you to work with them. Once the weaving is finished, the starch is washed away and the fibers are able to open up. At the end of the production the fibers are still lose. The wool is not felted or twisted, it’s not compacted. The isolation is high, and the material is light.
Between the Land
A research about borders
The origin of the word “fence” comes in the fourteen Century with the word fens, a short term for defense, protection. The history of civilization is closely tied with the history of fences. It emerged from the notions of agriculture, family and property. Fences helped institutionalize the collective recognition of private property as a visual and open declaration of intention, a commitment to the land. But were fences used to access to land or to mark the land? As the dictionary states, and on first impressions, it is a structure serving as a barrier but when is an opaque sort of wall it works as signage. We make an interpretation rather than physical contact with it; we know we should not trespass it and we know that this portion of terrain belongs to someone. It has a symbolic meaning. A fence is not just a boundary. It doesn’t only divide but connect spaces, it’s a reminder that two spaces are standing next to each other; it directs movement and enhances the appearance of a space . Starting from a collection of tools, used by the makers of the landscape, this book is a study about fences used in the lands and how they describe the landscape of Drenthe, a region in the north of the Netherlands.
Between the Sea and the Land
A story about the cycle of time
"The construction of identity was not a question that could be solved in a short time; it required the passing of many sunsets, of many harvests, of many generations. Long periods that individuals, in their limited life cycle, could not perceive for what they were. Today it is very different. We have lost the sense of the usefulness of life cycles, seasons and generations. We are aware that collective identity, built over long periods, no longer exists. It has changed connotation. It doesn’t settle down in a static space where men bind to the same places for generations. Its construction takes place in very different ways, in terribly short times, compared to those of the past. The identity built over long periods was expressed in the tangible forms of the artifacts with which men had made habitable a natural world, otherwise inhospitable. In the vision of one moment, we grasp the "identity" of a world whose construction has often lasted more than a thousand years." Mariolina Besio, Genova, February 8th 2004 Between the land and the sea is a study focusing on the identity of a place, that has been established by the activities of men in a territory where sea and land meet. Two ancient traditions, agriculture and fishing, that deeply connect the inhabitants not only with their territory, but also with the time and seasons of this place. Through looking at traditional tools and patterns, the outcome is a visual calendar that reveals the forgotten cycle of nature.
Encounters
“The more our taste is simple, the more it is universal; the most common repugnations fall on composite meals. Have you ever seen someone dislike water or bread? Here it is the trail of nature, here it is then also our rule. We keep of the boy his primitive taste as much as possible; its nourishment must be common and simple.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilio Encounters begins by focusing on the lifetimes of materials and the meaning that this brings. Drawing together, cotton, used for fabrics and defined as durable, with bread, meant for daily consumption, with a fleeting lifetime. In this project bread is seen as a living thing: its processes just as linear and clear as our processes of living. It becomes alive in our hands, it grows between the lines of the textile, and it dies in the process of cooking. In this process of living, bread and cotton come together and we as humans are invited to reunite around a table and eat from the same bowl, and from the same bread, slowly taking piece by piece out of the net.
