Martedì 11 dicembre a Milano

Opening a new Vivalibri store

Today, tuesday 30th oct, opening in via di Tor Millina 10 in Rome for the second Vivalibri bookshop designed by ma0, a kind of release 2.0 after the first prototype in Testaccio.

Prospects - Contemporary Art in India

On the 17th of october we had the opening of the Prospect exhibition, at the Auditorium - Parco della Musica of Rome, open until the 28th. Here you have the first pictures...





And here some of the amazing Alberto Novelli's shots:

Party pictures

ma0's warming party

After 10 years of activity ma0 has moved in a new space, where we invite all our friend to party and celebrate a new beginning... On friday 6th of july, from 19.00 pm to midnight. A new space, a new address, a new phone number: via libetta 15 00154 Roma tel. +39-06-81903359

untouch screen / viavai

Here you can see a short video about the installation realized for the exhibition L'UTOPIA PRATICABILE, Rome 26th of june 2007, 17,00 p.m. Museo H.C.Andersen Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20, Roma.
This installation is part of the touch screen series , proposing different forms of interaction in between body, image and space.
See http://www.ma0.it/load_touch_screen.swf .
Untouch screen is a device about the Colli Anene area in Rome, where two complete opposite realities (a nice residential area and a no-man's land, with a gipsy camp, informal uses of the land etc.) are divided by the Roma-L'Aquila higway.

Two opposite videoprojectors share the same surface, the same border, reproducing two opposite realities, two spaces and identities side by side along a border that at the same time divides and joins. The visitor looking at these spaces cannot be neutral, his/her presence on one side and on the other of the screen modifies the image, unveils one or the other space...

The school workshop video

A short video by Simone Muscolino of Id-Lab about the school workshop (words+images in the previous post).

The school workshop

4 may 2007 : together with Simone Muscolino of Interaction Design Lab we arrive in Bari to start the workshop for the mosaic of the new library façades for the Lombardi school. As we have proposed in our design for this extension of the school, that will have an important cultural role not only for the school but for the whole area, we are involving some students to participate in a creative process. More on the project concept on http://www.ma0.it/load_biblioteca.swf . Or, if you prefer moving images with music more than this blog, watch this little movie on youtube made by Simone at Id-Lab about the workshop.



A group of ten students had been selected by an internal competition in the school, named "Draw your own façade"; this first creative step in the process has been very useful to choose a small group to participate to this photography and image digital processing workshop.



Before leaving for a shooting tour of the city, Simone introduces the students in the realm of photography, with some basic instructions and very useful tricks to observe and capture reality...



The main shooting set is the food market in the former "Manifattura Tabacchi".

Fruits, flowers, vegetables, fishes, shrimps, octopus; every detail is captured by the students in this trip...

In the afternoon, after a small trip in the old city, we come back in the school, where Simone involves the students in a new game: each student is asked to be a celebrity for few minutes, uuder the friendly fire of nine photographers...
Here you see them together with Simone and prof. Petruzzi, our gentle guide and tutor in this workshop.

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The rest of the day is dedicated to see the shooting with the students, making comments on the best ones, and testing with pixelization and reduction of colours some of them:

But what we like most are the results of the celebrity game; the smiling faces of the students seem to represent in a very powerful way the meaning of this workshop (to root this new buikding among its users); at the same time is the result of a collective work, more than a one person product.
The morning of the 5th of may, among the various proposals this solutions is accepted by everybody with enthousiasm!
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Back in Rome, after one month of testing of different kind of tiles with the precious help of Pietro, to find the best colours and the best prices if possible, we finally make the final drawings of the mosaic for the construction...

Next step a public event to present everything to the school and the city ...

...while the real library keeps growing...

One year and half blog

One year and half later finally we have updated our website, and started this new blog... in a kind of home-made english, to communicate to everybody.
Just few words and images to tell you some about what has happened during this long long time.

december 2005 : We could start from our participation to the "Storytellers" exhibition in the Beyond Media festival in Florence, with Omini, a website to share human presence in architectural drawings. Check it out at www.ma0.it/omini.
Once again we didn't know if this was the best choice (to participate to an exhibition without showing our work); it seemed to us a great idea, but the website should have an interface that could allow to everybody to upload very easily new images...

2005 -2006 : together with the other promoters of the Romalab independent laboratory of reasearch on the city, we continue to explore the latest city...

2006 : Game Zone is finally printed in italian too, with Edilstampa. Though it is written by one of us, the book is strictly related to ma0 work and research. A nice review by Matteo Costanzo here.



april 2006 : A good project for the Kunstmuseum Bern competition, but no prize. More on www.ma0.it/load_berna.html

april 2006 : During the Salone del Mobile in Milan we have been invited to make a workshop with the NABA students, where we have been working on an Atlante del Confine (Borders Atlas), asking to the students to map all the borders they could find along the road to the new Milano Fair. This image shows the installation we made there:



may 2006 : The video Architectures on a thin line is presented at the Acquario Romano, in the exhibition Lo spazio digitale dell'architettura italiana.



june 2006 : exhibition in Perugia (model+videos) to present to the city the project-financing design of the multifunctional complex designed by ma0.

july 2006 : we came back in Milan for another workshop, called Urban Toys, focused on the design of multiuse-mobile-transformable micro architectures for public space, with some american students...

urban toys / Brian Bartolini

september 2006 : the main event of the last summer was the Venice Biennale, with our participation to the Italian Pavillion with the Continuicity project. More info in the Italian Pavillion website, or on www.ma0.it/continuicitta.html
The panel we presented was an attempt to stimulate a very simple kind of interaction...



october 2006 : vernissage of the pavillion for Sony Playstation Portable + Cinema Festival in Rome. In via Veneto, we try to transform an obsolete and ugly kiosk in a soft space... more on www.ma0.it/load_sony.html



october 2006 : Isole del Tesoro has been a one-week workshop in Autumn, in Lastra a Signa, in Tuscany, together with an entousiastic group of students and fresh architects from all over Italy...

SOS - Signe Operazione Suolo was the name to the various strategies we have proposed to the municpality of Lastra a Signa to strenghten the public domain and the pedestrian and bike paths. One week of full-time work, closed with a nice pop-up exhibition and a superb dinner.



november 2006 : the garden in Bari is completed. Great opening with kids, music, authorities. More on www.ma0.it/load_giardino.html



autumn 2006 : ma0 is in the exhibition: "Contemporary ecologies, Energies for Italian Architecture", 5th Brasilia Biennal of Architecture

january 2007 : the first Vivalibri bookshop in Rome, Testaccio piazza S.Maria Liberatrice is opened. Big event with the Scuola di Musica Popolare di Testaccio, drinks & food, representatives of the municipality, and a beautiful crowd. This first prototype of the Vivalibri series seems to have a big success... More on www.ma0.it/load_vivalibri.html



february 2006 : second phase results of the menoèpiù competition, and the winner is... not ma0! But we love very much our proposal. More on the official competition website or on www.ma0.it/load_pontina.html.

january - may 2007 : the second phase of the Romalab research group are the Real Sessions : four seminars hosted in the MAXXI to focus on the development of some european latest cities. For Barcelona, Berlin, and Rotterdam people like Manuel Gausa, Area Ciega, Sitesize, Francesca Ferguson, Klaus Overmeyer, Paola Cannavò, Alessandro Petti, the Maze Corporation, Hans Ibelings and Giampiero Sanguigni have been invited to debate about the dynamics and design and relational strategies in these cities in the last 15 years.
Next seminar, on the 25th of may, about Rome, where the romalabbers + others will discuss about issues of the latest and future Rome, presenting the "state of the art" of their researches.



january -april 2007 : one morning the telephone rings... and the municipality of Almere invites us to make an urban study on the future expansion of the city. Other teams invited are MVRDV, Neutelings, Sorkin + MUST.



Four months later in a big simposium in Almere, called Mensen maken de stad, we are presenting together with the other teams our proposal... more on www.ma0.it/load_almere.html . What's next in Almere we still don't know...