April 2018, a wooden SpaceShip lands in Milan
Rubner SpaceShip, Fuorisalone 2018 April 2018, a wooden spaceship lands in front of the Castello Sforzesco, in Milan. Leaning on its metal feet, the wooden cabin opens through a door that becomes a ramp allowing visitors to access an evocative and Planet friendly futuristic environment. The Rubner SpaceShip is the new concept-building exhibited at the 2018 … Continue reading
IED MonsterTiling 2017
MonsterTiling is a system of intelligent components for architectural skins developed by the students of the Master in Smart Buildings and Sustainable Design of IED Torino in order to enhance passive behaviour on the external layer of the building envelope with the final goal to reduce energy needs. Each component is specialised for different and unique … Continue reading
Algae at Villa Strozzi
On thursday 17 September, as part of the Experimental Materiality Day, CG will lecture in the morning at Villa Strozzi (Firenze) about the inclusion of algal biotech in architecture. More info here.
WaterLilly and Biohacking, a lecture by cg
Giovedi prossimo alle ore 19.00, per chi non fosse a ubriacarsi di stimoli a Milano (che comunque non è lonatno), presenteremo la nuova MiniLilly 2015 al FabLab di Biella durante una serata dedicata al Bio-hacking. More info here :)
Imperia Smart Land – Sentient River
Tomorrow, cg will participate at the conference “Progettare la Sicurezza del Territorio” organized by the Ordine degli Arhcitetti di Imperia, to launch the idea of a Early Warning System (Sentient River), to be experimentally applied in the Imperia region, with the goal of providing an open monitoring platform to generate and elaborate data on the … Continue reading
Sabba_booth
During the Milano Fashion Week, from 25th February to 2 March 2015, in the Hotel Boscolo Milano Lounge (Corso Matteotti 30, Milano), an installation that we designed and produced for Nikon Shool and Alfredo Sabbatini, will welcome visitors of the exhibit of vintage pop fashion models curated by Franco Jacassi. On display dresses by Courrèges, Paco Rabanne, Emilio Pucci, … Continue reading
LillyBot 2.0 is flying Middle East!
LillyBot 2.0 will be in show from 7 to 10 December 2014 at the Qatar National Conference Centre in Doha at the Lab exhibition organized by the ITU Telecom World Conference with Ars Electronica. ITU Telecom World is the global platform for high-level debate, networking, innovation-showcasing and knowledge-sharing across the ICT community. Ars Electronica was invited by ITU to think … Continue reading
Parametric Pizza Tower for Comieco at Salone del Gusto 2014
We designed and built a parametric little tower (3m h) out of circa 1,000 pizza box for Comieco (the italian consortium for recycling paper packaging) that has been on display in Torino Lingotto during the Salone del Gusto 2014. The aim of the installation was to promote the use of cardboard pizza box as a safe, … Continue reading
salone del gusto 2014
Next week, our Parametric Pizza Tower, specially designed and produced for Comieco, will be on show at the Salone del Gusto in Torino. If you’re around, don’t miss, it will be in Piazza della Pizza. If you’re elsewhere, stay tuned, pics will come soon!
MI/ARCH 2014
cg parteciperà alla presentazione dello IED a MI/ARCH il prossimo giovedi 16 ottobre alle 16.00 al Politecnico di Milano via Edoardo Bonardi 9 a Milano edificio Trifoglio, aula T2.2 Conferenza IED SMART CITIZENS – Il design al servizio della riprogettazione della città Relatori // Carlo Forcolini, designer e vicepresidente IED // Salvatore Amura, direttore Accademia Galli Como // … Continue reading
LillyBot 2.0 @ MakerFaire Rome 2014
Join us next Friday 3 October to Sunday 5 October at Auditorium della Musica in Rome: LillyBot 2.0 will be officially presented during the MakerFaire European Edition, Rome 2014. Don’t miss!
LillyBot 2.0 – Official preview @ Popup Makers torino
LillyBot 2.0, our new prototype of a domestic microalgae farm will be previewed at Popupmakers @ Toolbox Torino on September 24 / h. 19,00. If you are around you are more than welcome to come over, and give your comments/advice. The full prototype presentation will then take place @ Maker Faire Rome on 3-5 October 2014. … Continue reading
cg @ IED Venezia Design Lounge
Saturday June 7th at 17,00, cg will be lounging at IED Venezia Design Lounge (Palazzo Franchetti, Campo Santo Stefano, S. Marco, 2842, 30124 Venezia) in a talk on Smart buildings ad urban innovation, with Riccardo Balbo (IED Torino Director) and Tuba Kocaturk (Liverpool University). Download full program here.
cg talk @ Mini Maker Faire Torino
If you’re around, we will be very happy to meet you for the cg talk “creatures” tomorrow at 12,30 @ Mini Maker Faire Torino in Via Agostino da Montefeltro 2 :) Full program here
WaterLilly 2.0 @ Mini Maker Faire Torino
WaterLilly 2.0 sarà presente alla Mini Maker Faire Torino sabato 31 Maggio 2014. Don’t miss it!
cg lecturing in Firenze
As part of the program of the Master “Designing the Smart City” at the Architecture Department of the Firenze University, cg will give a lecture next Friday 16 May2014 from 14.00 to 16.00, Saloncino delle Murate (Firenze, via dell’Agnolo 1/b). The lecture will develop some of the contents of the book “Smart Creatures” published by Edilstampa in 2012, and will … Continue reading
WaterLilly 2.0 @ FuoriSalone 2014
During the Design Week in Milan (8-13 April), and until 18 April, a real scale prototype based on the latest evolution of the WaterLilly family (2.0) will be present in the space curated by Carlo Ratti Associati at the FuoriSalone 2014 in Milano at the Interni magazine major Exhibition-Event FEEDING NEW IDEAS FOR THE CITY. … Continue reading
cg @ Technion
On January 13th, cg delivered a private lecture titled “Smart creatures: bio-hacking in architecture” to the Technion Israel Institute of Technology – Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Faculty on his recent work.
featured on wired italia
CG features with WaterLilly on the story “Le facce della genialità. Storie di maker italiani” (txt by Lorenzo Mannella, photo by Mattia Balsamini) on the November 2013 issue of Wired Italia. The shooting took place in Rome during the MakerFaire last October. Awesome ;)
Lilly-bot @ Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven
It’s an intense fall! After the great Maker Faire Rome, we will be on stage again at Now Future – Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven 19-27 October. If you’re around join us at the Klokgebouw exhibition, hal 2, position no: 21. We will be exhibiting the brand new member of the WaterLilly family, Lilly-bot, developed with the support of … Continue reading
