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I ♥ PdZ | Microeconomie in cerca di città
presentano Daniele Mancini e Donatella Pavia
Venerdi 3 Febbraio 2012 ore 12.00
Here the presentation on issue.com
We’ve been invited in Matera for Rupextre 2011. Here the presentation given or just watch easier the interactive pdf on issuu.com. Very stimulating discussion, indeed, with Lorenza Pignatti, Francesco Careri, Francesco Marano, Ivan Bargna! Matera, a really intense landscape, full of pathos you can’t be touched by.
greetings from matera (photo by Daniele Mancini + Irene Rinaldi)
A grid of colors follows the evolution of a dynamic system (Lorenz Attractor): each initial condition (x,y,z) in the Lorenz Space matches the color tone (RGB space) of each square of the grid. Due to the ” sensitive dependence on the initial condition”, quickly the system evolves into (un)determined chaos.
This applet has been developed under the supervision of Laura Tedeschini Lalli and the help of Gian Marco Todesco in 1999 as an assignement for a super inspiring class at the school of architecture in Rome.
Sometimes the deep abstraction of mathematical knowledge can be unfolded by choosing another gaze… the other way around is true as well?
Project by:
Daniele Mancini (the man of imagination), Gian Marco Todesco (the man of logic), Laura Tedeschini Lalli (the man of vision), 1999
Lorenz in the color space, 2011 – From an idea of Laura Tedeschini Lalli – CG by Gian Marco Todesco Music by Roberto D’Autilia
The director’s cut (me) with the help of Martina Biffa and Sabrina Fasano.
Related posts are:
The Green Village Session Video
The Green Village Session
Interactive Shop Projects – Launching Event
Scenario for Interactive Shopping
We’re proud on Thursday 29th September 20.30 will give a talk at MAXXI presenting our work within the Architectre Talks – Rome curated by Emilia Giorgi and Alessio Rosati. On issuu.com the interactive presentation
I LOVE PDZ oggi è una mostra _9 progetti per 9 periferie dal 17 al 24 giugno 2011 @Forte Fanfulla (ingresso gratuito con tessera ARCI)
OPENING PARTY: venerdi 17 giugno ore 19 (*presentazione – *aperitivo – *dj set by D1NG ((garage, alternative, contaminazioni rock ed incursioni cinematografiche))
I ♥ PdZ è un progetto del Laboratorio di Progettazione IV Facoltà di Architettura L. Quaroni Roma La Sapienza a cura di Daniele Mancini
These ambiguities, redundances, and deficiences recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel’s hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.
from “El idioma analítico de John Wilkins” by J. L. Borges
In every enumeration there are two contradictory temptations. The first is to list everything, the second is to forget something. The first would like to close off the question once and for all, the second leave it open. Thus, between the exhaustive and the incomplete, enumeration seems to me to be, before all thought (and before all classification), the very proof of that need to name and to bring togheter without which the world(“life”) would lack any points of reference for us. There are things that are different yet also have a certain similarity; they can be brought togheter in series within which it will be possible to distinguish them.
From: Penser/Classer (Think/Classify): V. The ineffable joys of enumeration, in Le Genre Humane (1982) by Geoges Perec
Interactive Shop Project
The Green Village Session
Roma, May 3rd // h.20.00 / 22.00
IED Library, Via Casilina, 57
Interaction prototyping and installation by:
InteractionDesign-IED
interactiondesign-ied.net/
The installations presented are the new experiments for the Natural Shopping Center APPIA NEW. The theme investigated is about the relationship between human kind and the nature into the contemporary mediated metropolis: The Green Village. Unexpected reactions into the virtual dimension are triggered by some behaviours into the real.
1. The Urban Gardener 2.0. Digital vegetation for interactive gardeners.
2. From the Bud to Flower. Flower homage from a virtual flaneur
3. Floating Reeds.
4. Fratelli d’Italia. Tribute for 150° anniversary of united Italy.
For the credits, readm more
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Natural Shopping Center APPIA NEW Launching
Roma// December 5th 2 // 2010
Installation by InteractionDesign-IED
1. Green Village, IED Library, Via Casilina, 57
2. Under Control, Marella, Via Appia Nuova, 11
3. Urban Cave, Minieri Gioielli, Piazza Re di Roma, 41
For the credits read more below
As Urban Fields we got a Special Mention at REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory Remix the world, reinvent reality 2009/2010. Here you can read more: http://www.romaeuropa.org/
Being in London at Architectural Association for the 2010 Visiting Teacher’s Programme, I’ve set up a blog where you can find what exciting is going to be happening during the next three weeks
As usual, I’ve asked friends advises for my 21 days long staying in London …
1. Pieces of best architectures in London
2. Extraordinary places in London
3. Things to be absolutely done
4. One thing to buy
5. A book to read, a movie to watch
6. Somebody worth to talk with
thanks to Phil, Gillian, Stefano, Ombretta, Andrea, Angelo, Matteo, Gianfranco, Furio, Benedict, Tony
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We start a new cool project for IED Roma: innovative scenarios for interactive form of shopping. You can follow the ongoing design process on this online collaborative environment here. This project is going to be developed with a small group of best students from digital&virtual, graphic design, video, interior.
A workshop as an introduction to inflatable structures. Simple, economic, with consistently impressive effects. Urban Fields has been invited at Workshop at Compasso di Latta -[Tin Compasses], organized by NABA + Triennale di Milano presented during the Milan International Furniture Fair – Salone del Mobile di Milano 2010.
Milano Bovisa, 13th of Aprile from 2pm to 6pm
For our photogallery jump here (external page on urban fields)
For the video by naba jump here (external video)
Urban Fields has released “The Real Sessions 01. Experiment underneath Corso Francia’s viaduct, Roma – Winter 2009/10″
ready to be ordered on Lulu.com
Download for €6.00
Book (19×19) for € 22,00
You can just have a super nice preview of the content on issuu
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…
We’re pround to announce the opening of Ildebaldo Bed and Breakfast the most convenient accomodation in Rome!
This album is about the “Sensitive Object”, a project by Charles Mariambourg, Sylvain Bourreau and Leslie de Gasquet, designed during the Urban Exhibition Design Studio I held in Rome 2008. This project is featured on the Versailles School of Architecture Yearbook 2008/2009. Thanks to Silvain for the cooperation!
Here the link to the class with all the projects
Related posts on this blog:
Exhibition Design Studio 2008/2009
After many non coherent experiments, we’ve finally succeded to file our strategies of urban appropriation into a conceptually stronger container we’ve called URBAN FIELDS: it’s conceived as a common ground shared with our network of friends (including also students) coming from different creative disciplines. The principal mission 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 will be documented at http://urbanfields.wordpress.com
Urban Fields curated the just one night workshop “MySpace.IED” for Tutto in una notte 2009 at IED Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, from 7.00 pm 15th to 7.00 am 16th May 2009. For more jump here
Urban Fields at Milanomifamale, Fuori Salone event by NABA design school. Marziani a Milano (Aliens in Milan) is a urban fictional performances happened on 22nd and 23rd April 2009 around the city of Milan
Link to Urban Fields page
Link to the Video Performance Playlist
Link to Official Milanomifamale project at NABA home page
Tonight (29th march 2009) at Circolo degli Artisti we present the Best of Urban Fields 2009 videos within the Pecha Kucha Night
Mancini Architetti & Associati has been founded. We’ve decided to provide a reliable professional framework to our practice (mainly architecture and urban planning) to go ahead with some of our projects more related to market. Very exciting indeed! You can follow our everyday client oriented design activity here
It’s ready the Relational Oppurtunity. Exhibition Design Studio 08 09 Booklet on Lulu.com
Download the pdf for €6.00
Book (19 x 19) for €25.00
You can have a preview of the content here
The selected projects presented in this booklet are mainly light, temporary, partecipatory, relational spatial devices. Their nature is between the installation and the performance, the playground and the event. They are microtransformations amplifying the more controversial, banal and anonimous quality of the places in their relations with the city. Each of the projects suggests a peculiar urban vision. For that reason there isn’t a common functional programme to respect but an interpretation, a critical point of view to be unfolded. In the Studio 2008 / 2009 we focused on the space underneath the so called Viadotto di Corso Francia crossing the Olimpic Village in Rome.
Roma. Within the Urban Fields: The Real Sessions Lab, an instant workshop will be organized to explore the inflatable realm in the urban space. Participants will handle with transparent thin pvc sheets, taper and a little fan to create a landscape of inflatable shapes underneath the Corso Francia viaduct. Also a torus like shape (a huge donut!) will be built. Special event after the sunset with neon light
Yesterday 24 of July has collapsed one of the most beautiful building in Rome, unfortunatly left to deperished after the Olympic game of 1960. UNPACKED was there grabbing pictures in 2005. Keep reading for more images
Thanks to Silvia Galli, an extraordinary student of my Visual Communication Class, I got this invitation for a small speach + discussion about cultural implication of the Open Source approach. We had a very beautiful but unfortunatly short moment where many ideas cames out fruitfully. You can have a look to the official Spark Digital Entarteinement Blog reporting the events and pictures here
We got an honorable mention here
http://www.infopoint.uia2008torino.org/vincitori.aspx
How can Architecture face the challenges of economical and social mega-trends due to fast and explosive worldwide changes of the last decades? We do believe in Architecture wrapped around concrete issues giving realistic answers, and not the other way around. Only in this way Architecture can be called really “sustainable”. In our specific case Architecture is conceived around a cow, meant to be a metaphor of hte worldwide growing consumption (in the next 20 years the meat request will grow of 50%). The cow also symbolizes the natural cycling transformation of goods and materials. Our Architecture is made of industrial reusable components (scaffolding structures, corrugated metal sheets), recyclable materials like OSB, PVC fabric, straw bales and products of the cow living cycle like milk and manure. It’s an Architecture that lives and explains itself with the consumption of straw, the production of milk, the manure growing producing methane and the vitality given by visitors participation.
We’re proud to announce the catalog of our Behind the scenes exhibition has been published and it’s ready to be bought or downloaded at Unpacked’s bookstore. Now you can also point your browser to http://www.passolibero.it where the exhibition is featured. To know what Passolibero is, please refer to the posts listed below.
Quick visit to the two most recent buildings in the Uijthof University Campus, Utrecht NL: the almost childish yet supercool Basket Bar by the (un)disciplinate NL Architects and the severe and aristocratic Utrecht University Library by Wiel Arets… in the back the most paranoid building by mr. K. appears: can you say the name?
Fantastic meeting with Kamiel Klaasse at NLA’s office in Amsterdam discussing a new book I’m curating for 22publishing. I had the chance to see the latest projects and to talk about their current activities. Following this link you can reach the Photogallery documenting the visit; continuing reading you can watch the video interview
Demolishing the interior of an entire medieval building from top to bottom is one of the most rare and astonishing of events: the complex 3d stratification is revealed and just a few traces of the previous intricate space organization remain. Like in archeology, fragments of exploded life are scattered around in space and time and ages can converse with each other. The Architect is asked to be the realistic interpreter of such a dialogue, preserving the tension towards the future. Twenty images document the suspended time between the demolition and the rebuilding of an ancient house in Città della Pieve.
Dietro le quinte di uno spazio vissuto photography exhibition
Photos by: Irene Rinaldi and Paolo Rinaldi
Videoinstallation: Unpacked (Daniele Mancini)
Catalog: Unpacked (buy me!)
Passolibero Exhibition Surface | Via Roma, 11 | Città della Pieve (PG)
17 (vernissage),18,19 August 2007 | 19.30 > 24.00
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Passolibero is an indipendent exhibition surface showing temporary video projections and interactive installations. It is a space for radical explorations in the fields of new media and contemporary art. The very unusual yet very banal context, the door of a garage box in the medieval village of Città della Pieve, make this surface a cutting-edge chance for video makers, photographers and interactive artists in general. Passolibero has been launched in August 2007 and its activity is curated by UNPACKED (Daniele Mancini and Irene Rinaldi).
After three incredible years, at the end I’ve defend my PhD dissertation. Below you can read an abstract of the content in english and few (commented) slides of my presentation. Can really architecture get benefit from interactivity? How? What conceptual framework does inform the project of interactivity? Could the Sensible City metaphor be an interpretation key for the current discourse on modernity and contemporary?
Romalab has concluded its Real Sessions with a conference at MAXXI – museo delle arti del XXI secolo, where reserches of each partecipant groups have been presented. Among them you can also find our Unpacked Active Landscapes, an interpretation of the current urban condition of Rome through an electromagnetic field EMF exploration.
http://malupa.posterous.com/visions
http://romalab.wordpress.com/
Daniele Mancini: I’ve never found precise info about you background, your life before being haque:design+research. Have you been trained as an architect, haven’t you?
Usman Haque: Briefly I was born 1971, Washington DC, USA, trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London from 1990 to 1996, with a year out working in Malaysia ’93 to ’94 …
Here lies one whose name was writ in water (on the grave of John Keats at Acatolic Cemetery in Rome)
We’re very proud we got an honorable mention for this project because it was our proposal for the Memorial Park in San Giuliano di Puglia where a dramatic earthquake happened in 2002. Our investigation has avoided nostalgia for the tragic event focusing instead on the idea of a monument as an optimistic vision of life.
Have a nice look of our submitted A3 booklet (included the reduced A1 posters) on issuu.com
La Light City evocata da Altarelli è una sorta di sontuosa tovaglia doppiamente light, cioè leggera, quasi trasparente e talvolta luminosa, che pervade la città esistente. È il luogo dove l’immutabilità della città storica viene messa a contatto con l’espressività dei linguaggi della contemporaneità ma è anche e soprattutto il punto di convergenza tra l’estetica sottrattiva della modernità (less is more) e quell’estetica della sparizione (Virilio) che sostanzia l’immaterialità degli attuali territori del digitale. La tesi di fondo del libro è che la città in allestimento, cioè quella investita dalle modificazioni instabili, ambigue, impermanenti degli allestimenti che più di ogni altro modificano con le loro incessanti sperimentazioni il paesaggio metropolitano, sia il più fertile terreno di confronto tra il Moderno e il Contemporaneo.
read the review on Arch’It
Short trip in Paris for Pauline’s graduation in Versailles’ School of Architecture. Very nice time, many exhibitions, many people, many events: we enjoy the football worldcup 2006 final match at 10.000 meters over the sea, coming back with a crazy ryanair flight …
As participant of Romalab we’ve commited to curate the blog of the group. Have a look to the Unpacked explorations (foto diari category)!
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