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,…

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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…

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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…

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H-oloid

This graphic shows a virtual configuration of the oloid; it is the three-dimensional developable surface that was discovered by Paul Schatz in 1929.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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maX media

In the era of hyper-production, supported by the falsely meritocratic system fed by the viral consent without content, we want everything at once. We…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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Raya

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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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