the 7 days of the Near Future of Education

the 7 days of the Near Future of Education

It’s here! After our initial exploration of the Near Future of Education, when the ISIA Design School in Florence faced the effects of the global crisis, after writing about our vision on newspapers, and performing collaborative efforts to understand...
Transmedia Design

Transmedia Design

Fake and real. Simulacra and simulation. Go and organize a fake hold up. Be sure to check that your weapons are harmless, and take the most trustworthy hostage, so that no life is in danger (otherwise you risk committing an offence). Demand ransom, and arrange it so...
The performance of the Near Future of Education

The performance of the Near Future of Education

This article was published on the Febrary 2nd edition of Nòva24, on Il Sole24Ore. You can find the original article here: Il futuro scolastico è una performance Here we give an expanded version of it, without length constraints.   Crisis and transformation are...
Design, philosophy art and business

Design, philosophy art and business

What do arts, design and philosophy have to do with business? [ this is the english version of our article which appeared on the SIMI Newsletter, in Portuguese. SIMI is Brazil’s Open Innovation System] Let’s start from art. The arts have a crucial role in...
Squatting Supermarkets at UAMO Festival in Munich

Squatting Supermarkets at UAMO Festival in Munich

Supermarkets are places in which communication is really authoritary. Everything you see, hear, touch and smell is decided my store managers, according to commercial and marketing strategies. The things you read on product labels are decided from manufacturers and...
Leaf++ at Designs on E-Learning, in Finland

Leaf++ at Designs on E-Learning, in Finland

Leaf++ will be presented at the Designs on E-Learning conference in Helsinki, Finland. From the conference website: Future Learning Spaces The notion of space regains fresh momentum every time we interact with the world around us. As mobile devices weave into the...
A crash course on cross-media design at ISIA, Florence

A crash course on cross-media design at ISIA, Florence

Just back from Florence where we held a wonderful workshop/seminar at the ISIA Design Institute The workshop was really interesting for us, as we were able to experiment an innovative education format. Starting from the students’ ideas for the project works...
Living CrossMedia  @ Università La Sapienza in Rome

Living CrossMedia @ Università La Sapienza in Rome

[ITALIANO] AOS & FakePress insieme a Università di Roma La Sapienza, Facoltà di Architettura Ludovico Quaroni, Dipartimento di Disegno Industriale e con la presenza di Assessorato alla Cultura e alla Comunicazione del Comune di Roma presentano: Living CrossMedia...

interaction design on Disegno Industiale n.39

The new issue of Disegno Industriale is out, , focused on Interaction Design. You can check it out here. There’s also an article I wrote about John Maeda and the great influence he had on creativity through computing. Hope you enjoy it. Here is a short summary...

technologies for multiple voices

The world is not built out of a single point of view, or out of a single voice. It is the result of a continuous interaction among different people, places, objects, architectures, information. A continuous flow of perspectives, voices, desires and emotions creates a...

“O” an emotional bluetooth gadget

“O” is finally ready. A bluetooth gadget with an emotional approach. It can be used to communicate with your friends, lovers and relatives with a gesture of your hand. Squeeze it. Watch it vibrate and light up. Know that they love you :) Check it out...

DpSdC – Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi – the theory

Here below you can find the text that we presented at (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 explaining the theories and concept of the installation and of DegradArte. ABSTRACT Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi (DpSdC) investigates on interaction mechanisms created using low...

Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi back from Liverpool

Just back from Liverpool where we attended the (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 events presenting Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi. check out how it went with full video coverage here: > report from Liverpool connect to the events at > (re)Actor3 >...

DpSdC – Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi

Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi [DpSC] is an installation in which simple DIY technologies are used to create an interactive floor on which visitors use a broom to sweep their way through 300 years of Art History, creating beautiful cut-up paintings. Created...

Computer Art Congress 2

Art is Open Source and NeRVi present Angel_F project in Mexico City at the Computer Art Congress 2. The international meeting researches on the evolution of digital practices as they affect arts and society. I presented there the Angel_F project, together with...

Yes We Can

We gave out a presentation at the conference organized by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Co.Pi.Da. We presented some alternative business models based on a freepress publication created for the Angel_F and biodoll projects, and the scenario for a...
Talkers Performance

Talkers Performance

A latex cyborg suit is created to connect a dancer’s body to the interaction of the live and internet audience. All of the dancer’s senses are replaced by user-generated ones, and all of the sensations and movement of her body are used as sound and video...