GIBIGIANA. Innocence doesn’t pay!

Today an innocent playground session with mirrors at MAXXI Roma. Although we were there with kids and with no intention to infringe rules, we’ve been taxing with our misdeed.With: Adrián Castelló, Giacomo Bevanati, Daniele Mancini, Michele Mancini, Giada Spera, Benedetto Turcano, Flavia Verre Below an animated GIF and some picts.

Waiting for the first stone there’s always a terrific void to be filled

A collection of looping microclips documenting the obvious, the banal, the neglected into a process of building. The site is about the first building project by UNPACKED (Daniele Mancini + Irene Rinaldi) being kind of Monsieur Hulot Here the tumblr of the project

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</td><td width=”50%” align=”left” valign=”top”>A workshop as an introduction to inflatable structures. Simple, economic, with consistently impressive effects.For <a href=”http://www.compassodilatta.org/&#8221; target=”_blank”>Compasso di Latta – Tin Compasses</a>, organized by NABA + Triennale di Milano presented during the Milan International Furniture Fair Salone del Mobile di Milano 2010. 13th of Aprile h 2pm / 6pmKeep reading for the pictures</td></tr>
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Urban Fields at Urbantrascripts 2011 // Rome, the accidental city

We’ve been selected to show our performances at urban transcript: Rome, the accidental city 2011 next december in Roma. Keep reading for the supenice review we had from the commitee…

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Urban Fields at RUPEXTRE 2011

We’ve been asked to present our project at rupextre 2011 in Matera. Nice discussion with Francesco Carerri, Lorenza Pignatti, Ivan Bargna and Francesco Marano. Keep reading for the presentation slides

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Human Pixels Infinite at IED

Instant Stop Motion Experiment at IED Roma. Students of the Interactive Scenario Design Class 2A, 2B and 2C 2011 perform The Human Pixels Infinite. Watch the microloop here We did a just-one-day workshop at IED about how to make supereffective short videos with a very simple and basic technic: the stop motion.   The brief was to unfold a secrect life of an everyday object throght a 60″ video. Here you can read a very short list of  the best stop motion around the web and some more resources and here the student’s works

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Urban Fields got REFF Special Mentions 2009/2010

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory – Remix the world, reinvent reality http://www.romaeuropa.org/

Big Babol for an inflatable world

A workshop as an introduction to inflatable structures. Simple, economic, with consistently impressive effects. For Compasso di Latta – Tin Compasses, organized by NABA + Triennale di Milano presented during the Milan International Furniture Fair Salone del Mobile di Milano 2010. 13th of Aprile h 2pm / 6pm Keep reading for the pictures

From each according to ability, to each according to need

Workshops for children and inflatable interactive installations. Experiment of partecipatory design and relational architecture. Civita Castellana, 29th May 2009   Project by Urban Fields + Katia Millozzi more pictures here

MySpace.IED

Urban Fields curated the just one night workshop “MySpace.IED” for Tutto in una notte 2009 at IED Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, from 7.00 pm 15th to 7.00 am 16th of  May 2009 watch the videoreportage by IVLab watch our  Director’s Cut by Giulio Frittaion download the Inflatable DIY Flyer

Urban Pop Stick Project

Urban performance at Milano Fuori Salone 2009 Project by Urban Fields + Fresh Paris Watch the Fresh Paris instant video sketch Watch the Director’s cut by Margherita Cardoso (Urban Fields) Watch the Director’s cut by Stella Passerini (Urban Fields)

Marziani a Milano – Aliens in Milano

Urban Field 6Urban Fields at Milanomifamale, Fuori Salone event by NABA design school with Marziani a Milano (Aliens in Milan) urban fictional performances – 22/24 April 2009.Link to  Official Milanomifamale project at NABA home page

Link to the Video Performance Playlist Watch Swinging by Margherita Cardoso Watch Altalene by Romain Cascio Watch Space Invaders by Stella Passerini

Urban Fields at Pecha Kucha Night : Rome : Vol.1

Tonight (29th march 2009) at Circolo degli Artisti we present the Best of Urban Fields videos within the Pecha Kucha Night Watch the video

Blowing in the wind (over the no man’s land)

Urban Field n.5 Project by: Daniele Mancini and the students of Urban Exhibition Design Class 08 (First School of Architecture in Rome) Watch the video

Groundsketching over the no man’s land

Urban Field 4 Project by: Daniele Mancini and the students of Urban Exhibition Design Class ‘08 (First School of Architecture in Rome) Watch the video

House like myself: CICCIO Torus

Urban Field 3 Torus like shape as an house like myself workshopProject by: Daniele Mancini and the students of Urban Exhibition Design Class ‘08 (First School of Architecture in Rome) Watch the video

Floating City

Urban Field 2 Self made inflatable based experiments for a light and floating urban scenario underneath the Corso Francia viaduct in Rome Project by: Daniele Mancini and the students of Urban Exhibition Design Class ’08 (First School of Architecture in Rome) watch the video

// 12:53 // An instant workshop with Eyal Fried

For Exhibition Design Lab in 2008, we’ve been reached by Eyal Fried who gave an instant workshop to the students. It was about minimal but effective and (possibly) radical intervention in the urban space.Here the Youtube channel for the students outputs

The Human Based Screen Project

Urban Field 1 Urban 6×7 “pixels” matrix able to display in real time messages send through sms by tourists all around Piazza di Spagna Project by: Andrea Cattabriga, Daniele Mancini, Michela Ammassari and Flaminia Mazzi with students of Visual Communication and Media in Space class ’08 (First School of Architecture in Rome)

Intrusive Rolls

Urban Fields 0 Performance to make emerging the hidden boundaries of power and control. Project by: Michela Ammassari, Flaminia Mazzi with Daniele Mancini for Visual Communication and Media in Space class ’08 (First School of Architecture in Rome) watch the video

Shopping Addiction

Project by: Azzurra Brugiotti & Chiara Cangemi  for the Visual Communication and Media in Space class ’08 (First School of Architecture in Rome)   Video by: Azzurra Brugiotti & Chiara Cangemi Quote by:  99F, Frédéric Beigbeder, Je suis le type qui vous vend de la merde, ( Io sono quello che vi vende tutta quella merda )

Bodygraphy: My Journey to School

There are many different ways of telling my journey to school: I can trace my route on a map, I can write what I see along the way, I can get some pictures… what happen when the simultaneous cartographic description meets more narrative and discreete contents? Project by: Daniele Mancini and the students of Visual Communication and Media in Space Class ‘08 (First School of Architecture in Rome) look at the maps or just have a quick look to some samples below…