Projects

Visual Communication 90 Teresa Carretta 102 Chiara Facchini 106 Riccardo Fresch 108 Sofia Gandini 112 Kosara Keskinova 114 Chiara Leuzzi 108 Rebecca Morando 122 Giulia Olivieri 124 Cecilia Tommasi 114 Rebecca Toscan 124 Veronika Vascotto

Product Design 88 Silvia Bovo 92 Ilaria Carrozzo 94 Pietro Coda 96 Martina Costa Bignotti 98 Lucrezia Dal Toso 92 Alessandro Daniele 100 Charlotte Enzweiler 104 Matteo Falcone 110 Barbara Giordani 94 Stefano Lattuada 116 Gabriel Macrì 118 Rodrigo Luis Medina 120 Verena Metz Zumáran 126 Nicolò Vanzetta

Made In The Shade is an updated version of the classic Swiss cuckoo clock. At the striking of each hour, it projects natural images onto the surrounding surfaces, more specifically the light and shadows that filter through vegetation. Its purpose is to create the impression of extended spatiality and give the home environment a relaxing and evocative atmosphere. One of the elements with the greatest impact on our health at home is in fact lighting, whether natural or artificial, which transports us outwards, creating the illusion that we are not connected by our home walls. Its aesthetic is reminiscent of the mountain huts and barns of the South Tyrol, which as a characteristic have a particular “cutoff” of the roof, opposed to two normal sloping sides. The material used is pine wood, which by its very nature calms and facilitates relaxation. The name itself recalls a specific saying: Made in the shade that means to live at ease or to be in an ideal situation, but plays with the idea of actually being under a shaded area or in the shadow.

Esiste un posto dove…Conversazioni con oracolo digitale is an illustrated collection of short stories that aim to narrate possible future worlds. In the past, the future was interpreted through oracles, signs, and prophecies. A similar process takes place today through the interpretation of massive amounts of data. These data can be collected, analyzed, and read by an artificial intelligence, which creates predictions about tomorrow. The project focuses on this ancestral concept of predicting the future through the use of cutting-edge tools. Each text contained in the book is constructed through a “dialogue” with an AI that can complete the narratives, getting hold of a series of data, articles, and books from which it learns. Each story begins with an incipit written by me and then completed by the AI, establishing a back-and-forth that leads to the construction of visions of possible worlds. The AI becomes an oracle. Through the interaction with a human partner, it elaborates vivid images and stories that are both fictional and realistic.

Smoobe is a cozy technological home setting combining craft with domotics, Artificial Intelligence with home warmth, innovation with tradition, or, more concretely, the traditional Tyrolean stube aesthetic with a state-ofthe-art data collecting and processing system. Through sensors hidden among the table, chairs, and the lamp hanging from the ceiling, data will be processed by the servers, which will contribute to heat the environment by replacing the regular wood-burning system. You will find a cozy warmth near the stove for video calling your friends, then cooking in the same place where you play board games with your family or recharge your pc. So, the role of the stube as the heart of the house is kept untouched, while connecting the function of a brain to it, in order to create a new intelligent organism that will live within the house together with its inhabitants.

Rollo is a wardrobe designed for a future where people will own less clothes due to the rising of clothes renting & sharing services. These online services offer a monthly subscription for renting clothes; every month new clothes are shipped to a customer and the previously rented ones are returned to be washed and repaired. Rollo is composed by two parts: the rod used to hang the bags shipped by these services, becoming part of the structure; and the chest below, a space for personal and basic clothes. Rollo intends to address two issues: wardrobe size and fast-fashion. Wardrobes today take a significant amount of volume inside a domestic space, which contrasts with the small rooms many people live in. Rollo creates the adequate balance between the arrangement of clothes and the availability of space. Fast fashion’s logic is based on providing continuously affordable clothes in order to follow the trends of the moment. To achieve such continuous change of collections, fast fashion works by overproducing cheap and low quality clothes, harmful to the environment. Clothes renting services enable another way of variate continuously the clothes we use, by taking care of clothes Rollo promotes this kind of services and the related practices, much less harmful for the environment.

OUToffice is a structure that offers workers the possibility of working anywhere outdoors without being tied to the static nature of their office. It makes the city an extension of the workspace. The structure provides a cubicle for individual work and a floor for collective work. The individual cubicle is suitable for ensuring workers’ concentration and can be booked via a mobile application. The collective workspace is located above the cabin and is public. This space is accessible via a staircase that also provides the possibility to sit for moments of rest or socialization. The shape of the structure makes it recognizable within the city in order to represent a new concept of working. The mirrored glass window in the facade not only lets natural light into the interior, but also allows the structure to reflect the area in which it is located. The cladding of the structure changes according to the area to increase the connection with the local culture and to avoid the standardization of classic offices. In conclusion, OUToffice represents a way of “escaping” the physical limits of one’s own office.

SGRÄFO combines window curtains with a cat scratching spot, thus linking pet’s need to humans’ necessities. The main element of the structure making up SGRÄFO consists of solid panel curtains made of sisal fabric, a natural fiber very resistant to scratches, totally biodegradable, stainless, and waterproof. These curtains are supposed to be scratched plenty of times without being ruined. A second important element is a comfortable hammock positioned above the curtains on the extensions of the lateral supports of the track. Here the cat can lie down while monitoring the surroundings. The hammock is removable in order to be easily cleaned or changed if necessary. The materials used are recovery steel and aluminum for the whole structure, sisal fabric for the curtains and there are two options available for the hammock: the winter version made of checked pile and the summer version made of green cotton. In this way, the human will admire his cat climbing and scratching his curtains without ruining them, sharing a piece of furniture as good housemates do.

Home in a box is a kit containing all the essential furniture pieces we need to live. The box is easily transportable and can be quickly assembled and disassembled. You can take the furniture out of the box and combine and use it in different ways: you can sit, sleep, store, work, eat, and socialize. The box contains a bench, a table, a mattress, a trunk, cabinets, a peg rail, and a screen. The furniture is simple and self-evident. Home in a box can be used for a lifetime. It adjusts to any living situation and is durable and well made. It is the answer to the exigencies of the more nomadic lives we are living. Nomadic life is our origin. We are returning to our nomadic roots. Mobility is the ultimate new form of freedom: freedom from routine, traditional values, and geographic restraints, but it can also make living more complicated. Our old lifestyle isn‘t practical anymore. As living space decreases we have to get smarter by living with essentials. Fitting a home in a box makes transportation less expensive and easier.

While the world moves at an increasingly fast pace, imposing ever higher standards of productivity on those who live it, philosophies are emerging in every corner of the world that propose lifestyles and production processes characterised by genuine slowness. Timescape is part of this “movement of slowing down”, transforming the instrument that most of all, with its extreme precision, allows us to perceive this frenetic rhythm: the smartwatch, emblem of productivity always on the wrist. Timescape is a series of dials for smartwatches that aim to restore an archaic perception of time, made up of rhythms defined by nature. In ancient times, indeed, it was the interpretation of the slightest changes in the landscape that made it possible to understand the passing of time. Timescape aims to restore this relationship with the territory, with a nostalgic meaning, allowing the user to choose the place from which to take the data that give shape to the representations shown on the small display.

Nicchio is a desk that allows working without any auditory distraction. The name “Nicchio” derives from the union of the word “Nicchia”, the Italian word for niche, and “Picchio”, the Italian word for woodpecker. The soundproof shell is inspired by the soundshields, a music industry item that protects the microphone from external noises, adapted to the domestic environment. Its walls, internally coated with soundproofing foam, create a visual and auditory barrier against noises. The side walls are closable to minimize the space occupied by the desk. Nicchio has also some wheels that make it twist and use the room’s wall as additional protection. Nicchio is designed with typical technicalities of the musical industry. It has an aggressive design on the inside, but a versatile and elegant look on the outside. Nicchio is designed to perfectly fit with the look of every room and to overcome the needs that have been created with the increase of telematic work. Due to the shift of the office in the domestic environment, there is the need to find a place where to properly work, isolating ourselves from the distractions around us. Nicchio recreates this place of concentration.

BREVIARIO FAMILIARE is a photographic project that aims to narrate the space through its sacredness, focusing on all those objects and devices that represent the inhabitants in their beliefs, faith, superstitions, and idols: domestic space is illustrated showing the private sphere of the personal altars that populate it, either visible or not. The book does not want to be considered as a collection of religious icons, but rather as an exploration of the concept of sacred in its more general way. In particular, the house that is explored is my paternal grandparents’, a big farmhouse that saw the succession of three generations. Its story is condensed in the objects it contains, from the crucifixes looking down from almost every doorframe to the jealously kept letters sent from a brother who never came back from war. BREVIARIO FAMILIARE is a bridge between past and present, it is the story of a house through the pictures of the objects that make up its history. The project consists of a photographic narration. On one hand, the images represent objects and views of the examined house; on the other hand, they are pictures of pictures, such as of diapositives found in various family photo albums: between past and present, spaces and objects change and remain the same, soaking the domestic space in values and beliefs. The title of the project itself is taken from a family book, whose photo is displayed in the book.

In a 2020 marked by quarantines and traumatic events, full of absurdity, disbelief and hope, people looked for a way to escape the reality they were experiencing. We have therefore come to drastically reject the life that had been imposed on us by reclaiming our freedom with the only use of our imagination. Every twist and turn is possible, no law governs the universe, the only limit is your imagination. Fugace. Brevi storie in libertà is a game that allows you to break down the physical confining walls and to provide a playful, light-hearted dimension through storytelling. The deck of cards is a basis for telling short stories: the 90 cards that make up the deck are based on literary archetypes that were adapted to our contemporary environment and that can be interpreted during the development of the story. The deck is divided into five categories of cards: goal, instrument, environment, action, and character. With the help of the cards, players find themselves creating new realities and new alternative worlds to their own, implementing an imaginary mental escape.

Precious is a system that allows treating organic waste not as a rejection but as a material, thus valorising it. Its aim is to engage consumers in the waste cycle by making them consider the kitchen as the domestic environment where food waste carries out its life cycle. Precious tackles biodegradable materials like food waste by extracting and processing it, in order to manufacture a brick of completely decompostable material. The process consists, first, in grinding the waste and, secondly, in pressing it in order to reduce the occupied volume. Compacting in rectangular shape increases the concentration of waste in high density bricks. At the end of the process the material, acquiring shape and consistency, becomes an actual semi-product meant for the construction of structures that can be completely disposed of. In harmony with nature, the system addresses contemporary issue such as sustainability. Moreover, Precious is a system that acts on consumption habits with the purpose of encouraging people to adapt to change. By reducing the amount of waste that goes to the landfill, waste becomes a raw material again, establishing a balance between the domestic and external environment.

illumini is a wall lamp, consisting of many small led lights, that shows presence and creates contact between distant people. It works through an application that creates a network between the users and gives them the possibility to interact. The intention of the project is to evoke a nocturnal landscape where the lights coming out of the windows transform the buildings’ façades into hints of life. The light shows that there is someone behind the darkness of the streets and makes the viewer feel less alone. It is a simple unconscious feeling that has a positive effect on the mood. The idea behind illumini is to highlight the presence of people. The illumini network is like a city with its inhabitants. Every single light belongs to a person. The aim is to create a union between people without forcing them to know each other or depend on each other. It is a way to stay connected and surrounded by people, regardless of distance. The lamp lets us know when someone is home by switching on one of the lights inside it. The more lights are on, the more people are home.

Link to access the trial version of the application: https://framer.com/share/illumini--5SIyJIjr Vzz654Osl08k/ HiFKbMMB9

Normality tends to be considered a negative element, a disvalue in today’s society that pushes for the achievement of excellence and extraordinariness. The images spread by the media often represent unrealistic canons of perfection, leading the spectator to a sense of inadequacy in feeling part of the average. mèdio is a magazine, designed to give value to the everyday and the common, leading to the appreciation of common objects and experiences, giving voice to the banal, to improve the perception in collective imagination. This would lead to new less anxious visions of normality.

Space/Non-space is a shelf system that provides, besides shelves, seats, desks, tables, and even a sleeping place for two persons. Space/Non-space consists of four shelves of three different heights that pivot laterally, by means of load-bearing joints, on a steel rod. The shelves can be rotated as you like. By rotating the shelves and arranging them it various configurations, Space/Non-space’s user can create two sets of seats, shelves, equipped desks, tables, or a double bed. A surface suitable for a double bed is created when the two sets of seats are joined at the sides. The two lower shelves function as side doors drawers suitable for storing a double mattress, pillows, and sheets. The furniture fits in with both day and night environment, for get-togethers with friends and for intimate and private moments. The project focuses on the creation of a versatile piece of furniture, that can be used in many different moments of domestic life and in various situations, in order to replace the use of mainly fixed and bulky furniture in our homes.

UkuHawa is a chair and standing desk. It tackles the concepts of indoor/ outdoor and public/private. It allows rethinking some of the practices related to the window and its adjacent spaces. Indeed, usually we are not able to take advantage of them. It also allows for the creation of new habits. Through a simple switch, the UkuHawa’s seat becomes the base of the standing desk that can fit the window frame. The window becomes an essential element of UkuHawa, on the one hand, because without it the standing desk would fall, on the other because it represents the link with the outdoors. The project is inspired by the work of Ugo La Pietra which shows that where we find less efficiency more creativity emerges, so my project allows a reappropriation of a space otherwise left to itself. Especially in the present situation of lockdowns, we feel the desire to go out and to relate with what is outside of our apartment’s walls. UkuHawa, not only enable us to change our habits and to use portions of the house we usually do not use, but also enables us to enter in between the private and the public, the indoor and outdoor.

U-Maloca is a home modular mezzanine building system, easy to install and change. It provides solutions for the notorious apartments’ lack of space, by taking advantage from the height of the walls of a room. The modular mezzanine building system stands on a structure made of a central post and of two or more lateral racks that take all the height of the room by being fixed through pressure between the ceiling and floor. Such structure holds various kinds of platforms, which create different spaces. It enables you to realize activities where a lot of space is required and to satisfy the principal necessities you have in terms of space. The lateral elements of the structure also permit to reach the upper platforms, since they act as a ladder. At the same time, they hold shelves and folding baskets for storage. By replacing the main furniture, such as the bed, the sofa, the desk, and the closet, U-Maloca empties the floor, where you now canto move freely. U-Maloca is a practical, versatile, and affordable way to address the issue of the reduction of housing living spaces, especially in urban situations. It increases the livable space, so important in the present situation of lockdowns.

Baco is a hoodie that preserves one’s personal sphere by creating momentary isolation from others. In the recent past, while many people suffered a situation of total isolation, those of us who were in a situation of cohabitation, had the opposite problem: they have been compelled to live with the same people 24 hours a day. Forced cohabitation has caused strong changes: the intimacy and privacy of each tenant have been damaged. In a future in which this scenario could happen again, it is necessary to protect and safeguard one’s own intimate and personal sphere, both for an individual need and a better coexistence with others. Baco responds precisely to this need: it is a garment that protects us and gives us momentary spaces of isolation. Although Baco is the result of a reflection on the spaces at home, it can also be worn outdoors: in fact, it becomes a normal garment that can be used in any context. Being a hoodie that belongs to the intimate sphere, Baco is offered to the public as a dress that you can sew yourself and, for this reason, its realisation has been studied for being easy. Thanks to the instructions and the paper pattern on the website, it is simple to make a standard version, which can be customised in any way.

During the Pandemic we have experienced a big change in our way of living. Social interactions as well as the way we physically communicate with each other have changed radically. Given the health emergency at a global level and the consequent impossibility of having social relations, one might wonder “How will we relate in the future?”. Incontrarsi senza scontrarsi (Meeting without clashing) aims to define a new form of communication which makes people interact with each other while keeping distance in order to assure public safety. A series of paths placed on the urban pavement, will give people the opportunity to interact with others in an involving and playful way, without breaking the rules on social distancing. This way, we can experience public space as a meeting place again, while respecting the law.

Rium combines a picture frame and a terrarium in order to provide a visual, but not only visual, contact with beings usually living outside the home. It consists of two plexiglass panels and a wooden frame that contains extraordinary miniature landscapes that the users can grow in their home as they watch them change day by day. These constantly evolving living pictures are well suited to host small ecosystems of plants, fungi, and small animals (e.g., snails) so that they can also be used as domestic food production facilities, especially during lockdown periods. Thanks to Rium the users can easily take care of their house farms and enjoy the self-grown products when it’s time to harvest. Since being in lockdown prevents us from interacting with the outside world and nature, it’s up to us to bring it inside our walls to integrate it into our everyday life.