February 1, 2020
ISS SWEETHEART. Traces of a long distance acquaintance
I chose to start the observation from July 20, 2019 when the Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano began his period of service aboard the Station,…
January 25, 2020
GLOCAL TOOLS. Practices of unconvetional teaching
Today's Italian accademic education system lives in a state of continuous stasis, studded by areas of penumbra, alternating with situations of…
January 25, 2020
Life on Urania?
An anarcho-queer collective wanders in the outer space of Florence, Italy. The outlandish astronauts land on an abandoned planet and decide to squat…
January 18, 2020
Under the moonlight
A part of the world we have built in the last fifty years takes our hands full of the imagery of space travel and sci-fi culture. Creating the…
January 18, 2020
Ho fatto una svastica in centro a Bologna… ma era solo per litigare
We could say it all started on the 4th October 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1.
January 17, 2020
Apollo’s Italian ancillary _ Olivetti P101
By Apollo 11, we had a desktop computer, sort of, kind of, called an Olivetti Programma 101. It was kind of a supercalculator. It was probably a foot…
January 11, 2020
Terraforming Mars: the beginning of Anthroporobotocene
Starting with the beginning of the Agricultural Revolution 15,000 years ago, mankind has proved to be the first known case of an animal species able…
January 11, 2020
Ruff draft on Terunfuturism
July 20, 1969 was one of the most important days of the twentieth century, by itself able to shape forever the Western imaginary of space conquest.…
December 21, 2019
Cemeteries and Biocentrism at San Junipero’s time
Architecture and the space race share a common frame of technological inventions. Apollo 11 and Bigness share the fact of being the products of…
December 21, 2019
Rise and Revival of Sci-Fi Neorealism
Since the dawn of the XX century space flights have been a significant film subject. At the end of the century, science fiction as a main…
December 21, 2019
Space time
In 1969, the ones that had access to it were mesmerized in front of televisions. Thanks to the satellites they were sharing a common memory: the…
December 14, 2019
A big rocket
Architecture and the space race share a common frame of technological inventions. Apollo 11 and Bigness share the fact of being the products of…
December 14, 2019
Futura: from Nazism to the moon – and beyond.
The typeface chosen for the Apollo 11 mission was Futura, which soon became one of the most famous and commonly-used fonts in the design field.
December 14, 2019
The shiny side of the Moon
Raya is pure design-fiction. It’s a speculative scenario that aims at investigating and critiquing a possible future where the moon would become a…
December 7, 2019
Borderlines
Drawing a border could be an affirmation of identity as well as an act of violence. By establishing a border one can circumscribe a sacred soil,…
December 3, 2019
Apollo 11 – foreword
Since the very beginning of human history every population on Earth tried to communicate to something, or someone, above them. The Nazca Lines we had…
November 29, 2019
We choose to go to the Moon
This is a typographic visualization of President J.F. Kennedy’s speeches for the promotion of Apollo 11 mission to the moon: stadium speech (Rice…