Urban Fields 2008 2009

urban fields

aesthetic experiments for urban appropriation

ISBN 978-1-4461-4957-7

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ROMA VOLUME 01 - 2009

urban fields

aesthetic experiments for urban appropriation

ROMA VOLUME 01 - 2009

URBAN FIELDS is an open network of artists and creatives from different discipline based in Rome, Italy.

The main activity of the group is to explore the physical and social controversial condition of the contemporary metropolitan realm through spontaneous, instant and temporary appropriations of neglected public space. Urban Installations, performances, workshops, various experiments of communication and relational design are documented on-line at: urbanfields.wordpress.com

Urban Fields Aesthetic experiments for urban appropriation Vol. I 2008 2009 Art Direction Daniele Mancini Graphic Design Giulio Frittaion, Bromelles Photo Shooting & Video editing Romain Cascio Project Management Margherita Cardoso & Benedetto Turcano Media Design Stella Passerini Web Design Andrea Cattabriga Editing Daniele Mancini

Web http://urbanfields.wordpress.com http://www.vimeo.com/user1224606 First Edition July 2010 Copyright 2010 Exhibition Design Lab - Daniele Mancini [url] http://exhibitiondesignlab.unpacked.it [ @ ] edl@unpacked.it ISBN 978-1-4461-4957-7

URBAN FIELDS aesthetic experiments for urban appropriation

Simple, minimal, almost intimate gestures. Over anonymous moments of everyday life. Space changes.

Intention reveals what has been hidden: the shape of the sun, the thickness of the air, the relations among things, the tale of the soul.

Paradoxical, surreal, spontaneous.

Fast transformations like mirroring a sunlight over a building facade or swinging up and down suspended on a tree. Nomadic landscapes made of wind blows captured into transparent capsules. Simple, minimal, almost intimate gestures. Liberating gestures soon disappearing‌ and all those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain...

Concept by:

Concept by:

Concept by:

Michela Ammassari Flaminia Mazzi with Daniele Mancini

Andrea Cattabriga Daniele Mancini with Dimitri Liakatas

Daniele Mancini

Performance by: Michela Ammassari Flaminia Mazzi

Performance by:

Performance by:

Michela Ammassari Flaminia Mazzi and the students of Visual Communication and Media in Space Class 2008

Students of Exhibition Design Class 2008 09 First School of Architecture in Rome

First School of Architecture in Rome

INTRUSIVE ROLLS Urban Field 0 28th May 2008 Via del Corso, Roma

HUMAN BASED SCREEN Urban Field 1 16th June 2008 Piazza di Spagna, Roma

FLOATING CITY Urban Field 2 21st november 2008 Corso Francia Viaduct, Roma

Concept by:

Concepts and Performances by:

Concepts and Performances by:

Daniele Mancini

Daniele Mancini and the students of Exhibition Design Class 2008 09

Daniele Mancini and the students of Exhibition Design Class 2008 09

Performance by:

First School of Architecture in Rome

First School of Architecture in

GROUNDSKETCHING Urban Field 4 17th dec 2008 Corso Francia Viaduct, Roma

BLOWING IN THE WIND Urban Field 5 2nd feb 2009 Corso Francia Viaduct, Roma

Rome

Students of Exhibition Design Class 2008 09 First School of Architecture in Rome

HOUSE LIKE MYSELF Urban Field 3 3rd december 2008 Corso Francia Viaduct, Roma

FIELD: Corso Francia Viaduct, Roma, Winter 2008/09

Torus like shape as an house like myself workshop. Exploring a nomadic minimum space of existence (or a space of minimum existence?) we demostrate a resourceless 1:1 prototype is much much better than a computer based rendering: it tooks 25 people for 16 hours cutting and tapering about 1000 sqm of plastic sheets.

PLA STI C SHE ET

Self made inflatable based experiments for a light, instant and floating urban scenario. Performing with the wind and some thin sheets of plastic, metropolitan poetry emerges...

PLA STI C SHE ET

Just white powder to sketch like children over the ground...

Crossing from point A to point B

CHALK POWDER

The shape of the sun

CHALK POWDER

Too often the air is a forgotten dimension to be used as a creative opportunity...

Swingings up and down

Now that I reflect about it

R PAPE

Air thickness: tribute to Bruno Munari

Challenging the hidden boundaries of power and control...

Urban Fields n.1 16th June 2008 Urban 6x7 pixels matrix able to display in real time messages send through sms by tourists all around Piazza di Spagna.

IO NON HO PAURA

SMS

io non

ho paura

URBAN FIELDS 2008/2009 Agathe Rosa Alexandre Golinski Alexis Stremsdoerfer Andrea Bordi Andrea Cattabriga Benedetto Turcano Bruna Basegni Charles Mariambourg Christian Pontis Daniele Mancini

Dario Loscialpo Davide Libonati Dimitri Liakatas Donatella Pavia Eduardo Nunez Emanuele Mastrangioli Filippo De Camillis Flaminia Mazzi Flavia Verre Francesca Aiello

Giada Spera Giorgia Nardi Giulia Giampiccolo Giulia Peruzzi Giulio Frittaion Giuseppe Mastropaolo Helene Degousee Ionut Mitroescu Leslie De Gasquest Licia Ugolini

Marco Strippoli Margherita Cardoso Michela Ammassari Mihai Vanca Patrizia Sodini Raphael Lacroix Roberta Ragonese Roberto Mancini Romain Cascio Sandra Humanes Stella Passerini

CREDITS THE REAL SESSIONS.01. ROMA 08/09 Art Direction Daniele Mancini Graphic Design Giulio Frittaion, Bromelles Photo Shooting & Video editing Romain Cascio Project Management Margherita Cardoso & Benedetto Turcano Media Design Stella Passerini Web Design Andrea Cattabriga

COPYLEFT

All the Projects and Performances presented on this booklet+DVD are intended as an Open Source Urban Appropriation Operating System.

This means you can freely copy, distribute, display, perform, reuse, adapt and hopefully improve what we have already done!

If you like, we can connect your name to the URBANFIELDS network. Just let us know at urbanfields@unpacked.it Please, for more, refer to the Attribution Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share Alike licence.