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MIRA-MI — A project for citizens of Milan and visitors.

Although I make everyday the same street, I know only a few things about my daily environment. Mira-Mi is a collaborative service to share, collect and explore the city resources by using public transportation. The service is available for free and can be used during travel time to find out contextual information directly on the mobile phone. Mira-Mi — a collaborative service to share, collect and explore the city resources by taking the public transport.

The service is intended to search specific information, to explore what is nearby (for instance local services, concerts, exhibitions, places, anecdotes...) and collect information that can be shared with others. Each piece of information is linked to specific public transport stops and organized into categories for an easy exploration. The user can either find something around him/her or make a distant search.

Using the ATM (Milan Public Transport Society) database coupled with Google Maps, the service provides real-time information on the best way to reach the place with public transportation. It’s possible to create public or private posts to share informations with selected people or communities. It allows to create small groups to leave messages in the city just for his/her friends as instance.

More about the UI here: PDF

[ Milan, Italy 2006 MA Thesis at Polytechnic of Milan - work alone]

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VIRTUAL POOL — Interactive installation for children (5-10 years).

As long as you find the way to trigger children attention they learn pretty quick and the best way to teach them, it’s to make them play :-)
The goal of this installation was to introduce them to the colour sensor technology. The Virtual Pool was created by a water environment projection. When a child places a coloured cardboard fish in the pool, a “virtual fish” animation is triggered. There were 7 different cardboard fishes, each one launching a specific animation.

Children were playing with the projections, making the fishes appear and disappear and trying out the different colours. They enjoyed it and were curious about the explanation of how it worked. This way they understood the colour sensor logic and experienced one simple application. The give-away cardboard fish collection worked as a nice souvenir of the experience.

Look at the jellyfish animation (to view it you need Flash Player, available for download here)

[ Genova, 2005 Science Festival, work of team with M.Banzi, Y.Steiner, A.Sehgal, G.Cannata, A.Chelaru and E.Somnitz ]

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BRIDAL BOX — A project for the XXI Century bride

During the past century the bridal box was filled by the family with embroderies and hand works for the house, and the girl received it as a wedding "present". Our box is a little home for our memories, a place where the girl can store personally relevant objects during her whole life, a safe to protect letters, drawing, travel tickets,...

Considering the rarity and high value of our audio memories, we made this box able to store mp3 files: songs, friends’ talks, grand mother’s stories, dogs barking, foot step noise, favourite place environment sounds... A container for the sounds we don’t want to forget. Each time the box is open a sound/recording/music is played randomly.

The box is made out of a very soft wood allowing to leave traces on it. The project was part of the First Wood Fair organized by the Trentino Association of Craftmen. Id-Lab, with 7 other designers , has been asked to interpret, in a modern way, a traditional Trentino object: “the bridal box”. The exhibition was curated by Massimo Martignoni.

[ Milan, 2008 work for Id-Lab with Fabio Mennella and Stefano Mirti ]

• exhibited at NABA for the Milan Furniture Faire 2008 (17.04.08)
• exhibited at Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent (14-18.05.08)

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DA PLACE — A project for design/architecture/art students who sometimes get bored at night in all places where you can drink, talk, drink, listen to music, drink, do nothing, talk, be passive, get bored, ...and maybe would like to do something.

We were thinking to a night place comfortable as home and equipped as a studio. WiFi Internet access, sofas, music, big tables and materials to project, plan, discuss, sketch, write,.. Here you can share your working time with other people. If you have a project you want to exhibit, you can put the model in one of the "showcase-columns" or scan it with the "scanner-table"and project it on the ceiling or in the "screen-lamp".

An article on the project. :-(only in italian)

[ Milan, 2000 proposal for a DA place, work of team with Francesca Bolognini, Manuela Conidi, Michele Cecchini and Laura Castelli]

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COMMENTAIRES DE L'AIR / Air comments

Interactive performance centered on the voice. The candle moves in reaction to Maria’s voice. A free, beautiful expression but a difficult communication. As somebody or something react to our acting, we spontaneously search to trigger an interaction. The candle algorithm has a different logic from human sensibility and this provoke an instable state of misunderstanding. The software used for the performance is Pure Data.

look at the video

[ Paris, France 2004 collaborative performance, work of team with Maria and David Gauquelin ]

SHOWSOUND — a project for the silent museums of musical instruments.

How can we fully appreciate an instrument without its sound? We propose a contextual listening of the instrument sound in 4 different sound contexts. An addition of a non-intrusive audio level to get to a more complete experience. The different audio tracks are activated by visitor proximity.

An empty room is a silent room. A room with visitors speaks its own sound depending on the number of visitors.

[ Milano, Italy 2005 proposal for a museum showcase, work of team with Giacomo Buttè]

PRIVATE PUBLIC SPACE

While doing my stage at E1 (IDII) I worked on a project proposal for Telecom Italia. A series of concerts had to take place in reduced spaces like the bookshops of Milan. The project’s goal was to extend these concerts out of such limited spaces, thus allowing a greater public to enjoy them.

The proposal was based on an input-output system. The distant public creates the visual environment of the concert, with images and text messages projected in the space. The public inside can choose 1 minute of the concert in high quality and send it to a friend. The concert is streaming in real-time and played through little speakers spread in partners bookshops.

http://www.superficiel.org/joelle/design/pages/ivrea.htm

[ Ivrea, Italy 2005 work of team with Joelle Bitton and Stefano Mirti ]

MEb — Bijoux pour le corps / Body jewel

We are used to wear jewellery that use our body as a background and atttract all attention on themselves. MEb, instead, it's a semi-transparent membrane you can apply anywhere on your body on the skin. Something in between a tatoo and an object. It interacts with the skin PH, the body temperature and hearth beat and changes in consequence its apparence. Different membranes also react with proximity becoming softly luminous so that placed on different part of the body would put in evidence the body gesture.

[ Paris, 2004 semiotic exercise, work alone ]