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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

Related posts:

I ♥ PdZ. The book
I ♥ PdZ. The class
I ♥ PdZ. The show

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)

 

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

Related post:

I ♥ PdZ. The book
I ♥ PdZ. The class
I ♥ PdZ. Presentation at Master Housing

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/

My presentation today at Architectural Association. Get here the pdf (7,5 Mb) of the presentation or just jump the photogallery here.

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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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)

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

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

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

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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.

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?

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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

website on exhibition design lab
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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?

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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/

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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

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 …

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3o Maggio

Quando poi vi verrà la fantasia di fare un viaggio in Giappone non ci venite a dire che non siete stati avvertiti :

al primo giorno avrete il culo mostruoso di incontrare sasuke il piccolo ninja, holly e benji che driblano il trffico, kiss me licia che frigna, sailor moon, ken il guerriero, chobin, spenk, gli yattamen, sampei, mila e shiro due cuori nella pallavolo, mazinga z, l’uomo tigre, lamù , conan con lana …

comunque,

sarà che sono solo tre giorni che siamo arrivati ma proprio non riusciamo a capacitarci di come una civiltà millenaria come questa si sia ridotta così: senso del dovere paranoico e mistico che sfocia in un autolesionismo sconfinato. Un pò come gli stoici suicidi al cubo. Solo che il suicidio (metaforico) qui è collettivo e permanente. Suicidio quotidiano dell’anima confinata in una (ci sembra) solitudine profonda come un grattacielo.

daniele + irene

P.S. Continua a leggere il Diario se vuoi vedere la galleria delle immagini!
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Now we’re ready to go! We’ve got from friends suggestions about these following points for our 15 days in Japan. We’ll be first visiting the Expo in Aichi due to the Italian Pavillon. Irene was part of the design team. Then we’ll take our time for a short study trip.

  • 1 place to visit in Japan
  • 1 architecture to visit in Japan
  • 2 peculiar places in Tokyo
  • 5 pieces of architecture in Tokyo
  • 1 friend to meet
  • 1 museum
  • 1 movie
  • 1 book
  • 1 thing to buy

Keep reading to know more about friend’s reactions, and enjoy!

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supercalifragilistichespiralidoso (Mary Poppins)

Interactive Installation
Casa dell’Architttura, Acquario Romano, Roma, It
20-26 January 2005
budget: 2.000,00 euro
Sportello Giovani, Ordine degli Architetti di Roma
Daniele Mancini, Irene Rinaldi
links: presentation pdf > images of this project from the UNPACKED.photogallery > official web site for Leonardo.Unpacked

Great meeting for “Nuova Architettura” organized by the untiring Furio Barzon. I were there presenting IDII Portfolio + CICCIO. Among many others partecipants also Antonino Saggio, Alvise Simondetti, Cristiano Ceccato, 2A+P. The whole event happened at Villaggio Eni by Edoardo Gellner, in Borca di Cadore just few km far from Cortina d’Ampezzo. We’ve also visited Carlo Scarpa’s church. Keep reading for the photogallery.

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Presented my Master Thesis at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. Here you can download the pdf (2,2 Mb) of my report. Or you can jump to the project page (external page on Exhibition Design Lab)

Video by Cut-Tv (Paolo Peverini, Elisa Angelici, Simona Marani) 2004

This project has been submitted as entry at the Europan 7 competition in June 2003 by the CICCIO Group – Walter Aprile, Dario Buzzini, Line Ulrike Christiansenn, Karmen Franinovic, Eyal Fried, Daniele Mancini, Stefano Mirti – a group of students and professors dealing with the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. Since that time, they have been accumulating numbers of experiences and experiments around the CICCIO, the Curiously Inflated Computer Controlled Interactive Object, whose the projects shown here, represents the very first prototype.

Jump to the project page (Exhibition Design Lab website)

Have a supernice look at the submitted booklet + A1 on issuu.com

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