(un)determined color machine presented at Festival della Scienza Genova 2011

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

Interactive Shop Project – The Green Village Session – Director’s Cut

 

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

Interactive shopping project: The Green Village Session // Video

Catalogue: Tasty Snacks of Imagination

 

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

The Green Village Session

 

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

Interactive Shopping Project // Launching Event 2010

 

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

The Green Village – Interactive Window

Scenarios for interactive shopping

Interactive shopping project at IED

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.

Big Babol for an inflatable world at NABA + Triennale Bovisa

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)

MySpace.IED Tutto in una notte 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

Inflating DIY Flyer

Aliens in Milan urban fictional performance for Milanomifamale by NABA

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

The Cow Project mentioned!

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.

Behind the Scenes video installation

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

Passolibero Exhibition Surface

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).

Active Landscapes in Roma

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/

The sky inside the room got an honorable mention

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

Leonardo Unpacked

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

The Portable Museum Kit for the XXI century Flâneur

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

CICCIO Europan 7

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

Hyperion // before Unpacked

Stuttgarter Pavillon International Students Competition. Project for a temporary and transportable exhibition pavillon by: Daniele Mancini, Riccardo Pulselli, Giovanni Scocchera