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timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

Stefano Mirtis

facebook wall

https://www.facebook.com/stefano.mirti.3

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Matera

Another person I've met during these days at Casa

Netural is ms Patriza Capriotti. She is an architect

and she does a lot of self-produced things.

Here above, a series of (communist) paper bags.

Interesting. Here in Matera is strange. I have the

feeling that everyone is a designer or a maker or acraftsman.

Thanks toAndrea PaolettiandMariella Stellafor

letting me know all these various people...

Making Bags (Here, Everyone

Is a Craftsman...)

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Matera

Bread Seal (Some More)

I've spent the whole morning with Emanuele

Mancini and Luca Colacicco, craftsmen in Matera.

They can make everything. Wood, ceramic, metal,

paper... With their hands and with their machines.

Quite impressive, indeed.

Very interesting hours. To explain me things, they

chose to show me the making of a bread seal. This

was used in the old times when there was a public

oven and each family would bake their own bread.

One oven, lots of different breads, there you

needed the seal to mark your own pieces.

Furthermore, there is an incredibly complex

metaphor system. The seal is the male part

(hence, it always carried male-related symbolism:

a cock, a lizard, a tower, etc.) while the bread

dough was the female part. To stamp the print

was in first instance a sexual metaphor referring

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Matera

Papier-mch

Mr Emanuele is able to do basically everythingwith every possible material.

to a timeless culture.

Finally, Emanuele made a stamp with my initials.

Here you can see the whole process: http://www.

facebook.com/media/set/

If you want to see his website, here is the link:

www.manciniartigianato.com

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Thanks to Andrea Paolettifor taking me there.

Very nice.

Wish you were here!

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"The frottage notebook and the city": 3 days where

8 people went around Matera, representing the

urban space with the frottage technique!

DIARY WORKSHOP AT Casa

Netural

Having to think about a possible collaboration, we

agreed that papier-mache' is the material /

technique offering a lot of potential.

In 18th century they had paper but they didn't

have epoxy glues and resins. Neither software and

the digital technology.

A lot of possibilities in front of us. A chair in

paper? A table? A whole building?

To think to an architectural space made out of

paper, mixing up old and new technology, it looks

promising

Keep tuned for more!

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Matera

Mani Cucite

Out of these days at Casa Netural, one of the most

interesting people I've met is ms Luisa Lapacciana.

She is a graphic designer, typeface maker, binder

+ lots of other things.

Here some of the things she does:

http://www.officinecargonauta.it/about-Luisa-

Lapacciana

http://www.officinecargonauta.it/

She is also part of Zabar

http://www.zabar.it/

http://www.zabar.it/manicucite/

As a present, she gave me the fabolous "Mani

Cucite", a manual to DIY all kind of nice binding,

More images here: https://www.facebook.

com/media/set/?set=oa.274733386003864&type=1

(courtesy ofStefano Mirti)

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Matera

Matera Frottage 2013

Thank you Luisa Lapaccianafor sharing these

images. These are three booklets of the second

series: "matera frottage 2013".

A great experience, soon some more (images).

More images at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

Thanks Luisa!

booklets and things.

More at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Thanks to Andrea Paolettiand Mariella Stellafor

setting the whole thing! Very nice!

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Basilicata

Voyage to Italy (part 2)

Then, from Matera, I took a train to Bari. From

Bari, a long journey all the way to Catania. Very

nice experience. Lots of images.

Here you can follow the whole trip: http://www.

facebook.com/media/set/

Image above,the sun comes up, between Matera

and Altamura.

#voyagetoitaly(29). Sun power on black curves. i

like blunt landscapes.

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Raffineria ENI Taranto

Oil Refineries

I really like oil refineries. Don't know why, and

also I can't explain exactly.

The one in Taranto (ENI), is quite impressive. I

should go back another time, to look at it during

night time

http://science.howstuffworks.com/.../energy/oil-

refining.htm

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Traghetto Caronte e Tourist

Caronte

One of the things I like the most of going to Sicily

is when I go by land.

This implies to cross the channel with a ferry boat.

Most of the times, a boat called Caronte (very

nice, isn'it?).

In Greek mythology, Scylla was a monster that

lived on one side of a narrow channel of water,

opposite its counterpart Charybdis.

The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's

range of each otherso close that sailors

attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too

close to Scylla and vice versa.

More at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla

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Serpentine Gallery

Tomorrow Is the Question

Rirkrit Tiravanija says (writes):

Tomorrow is the question, today has no anwer,

and yesterday never returns.

In the dome, 12/05/2013

Thanks to Hans Ulrich Obrist for his fantastic

collection shared via Instagram.

You can follow his fabolous flow at:

@hansulrichobrist.

One of the nicest projects I have seen in a long

time!

(also, thanks toRachaporn Choochueyfor the

hint).

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Abadir (Arts Between Architecture Design &

Interdisciplinary Research)

Greetings from Abadir Catania!

Lots of talk, plan, ideas, this and that with Lucia

Giuliano, Eleonora Odorizzi, Andrea Miserocchi.

+ some new entries for my collection of "flags of

unknown countries".

Flags of Unknown Countries

(Series)

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Food Delicacies at "a Fera

o Luni"

One of the nicest things of Catania is the food

market.

Here above, some of the delicious things you can

buy there

If you want to see them moving, here the link:

https://vine.co/v/bYXmqWjFEZg

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Siracusa

Burial of Saint Lucy

When Caravaggio arrived in town, his first majorcommission was for the church that had been built

on the site of her death. The most common theme

of paintings of Santa Lucia was to depict her

martyrdom, but Caravaggio decided to paint her

burial.

Keep reading at: http://huntingcaravaggio.

blogspot.it/.../burial-of-santa...

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Siracusa

From Athenaion to Cathedral

The cathedral (Italian: Duomo) was built by bishop

Zosimo in the 7th century over the great Temple

of Athena (5th century BC), on Ortygia island.

This was a Doric edifice with six columns on the

short sides and 14 on the long ones: these can still

be seen incorporated in the walls of the current

church. The base of the Greek edifice had three

steps. The interior of the church has a nave andtwo aisles. The roof of the nave is from Norman

times, as well as the mosaics in the apses.

If you want to know more (in Italian), here the

link:http://www.hevelius.it/webzine/leggi.php?

codice=130

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This architecture, I very like!

This is in Siracusa. The entrance of Artemision

Museum, designed by Vincenzo Latina.

Very nice work. Also, very interesting architect

with lots of projects to check

http://www.vincenzolatina.com/

In the footsteps of Francesco Venezia!

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Via Cascia

Back to Milan!

I've been around for more than one week. Going

South. Matera, Pollino Natural Park, Bari, Abadir

Catania, Siracusa.

Very nice, very pleasant.

Thanks to all the people I've met around. Andrea

Paoletti, Mariella Stellaand the other friends of

Casa Netural. Luisa Lapacciana, Mariateresa

Paolicelli Orecchietta+ too many to list them all.

Thanks to Annibale D'eliaand his friends from Bari.

Then, Abadir Cataniapeople: Lucia Giuliano & co.

Not to forget Eleonora Odorizziand Andrea

Miserocchi

A very nice week, looking forward to set up

another one...

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Bologna

This is a very nice project!

Lowedding is a project born from the observation

of modern times.

It gathers romanticism, fun and convenience.

It will be a new way to conceive, design and

organize a wedding.

Low budget. Fast andfunny.

Keep reading at:

http://www.loweddingdesign.com/index_ENG.php

Thanks toMarica Marzanofor sharing the link!

Lowedding (or, Wedding

in the Age of Low Cost)

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Vienna, Austria

Dildomaker

Austria-based designer Francesco Morackini hascreated the Dildo Maker, a pencil sharpener-like

device that will turn any object into the shape of a

penis.

Morackini suggests an almost limitless choice ofobjects to shape like popsicles, vegetables,

candles, or even a stick of butter, but cautions

that any soft object should be frozen before

shaping it with the Dildo Maker.

Keep reading at: http://laughingsquid.com/dildo-

maker-a-pencil-sharpener.../

More at: http://cargocollective.

com/morackini/Dildo-Maker

Thanks toPiero Rivizzignofor the link!

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Sassuolo

Here we go with a new design project overlapping

digital and analog world.

http://www.ceramicfutures.com/

https://www.facebook.com/CeramicFutures

https://twitter.com/CeramicFutures

Bythe way, next Thursday (at 7 pm) there will be

the official launch of the project. At Milan Design

Library, there will be the various people involved,

talking and chitchatting and exchanging ideas.

If you want to come, there will be Elio Caccavale,

Alberto Iacovoni,Laura Negrini, Lucia Giuliano,Ko

Sliggers,Marco Lampugnani.

Not to forget the people who organize the whole:

Elena Mfoirr,Maria Teresa Rubbiani,Aurora

Rapalino, Anne-sophie Gauvin,Alica Horvathova,

Remo Ricchetti, myself + lots of others interesting

people.

ps. Also Matteo Poliand Angela Rui will be with us!

From Poetry to Science

Fiction

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The Glasgow School of Art

Design Innovation

This is very nice. I just received a message from

Elio Caccavale:

Glasgow School of Art GSA currently has 3 PG

programmes themed around the practice of Design

Innovation:

Design Innovation & Service Design

Design Innovation & Environment Design

Design Innovation & Citizenship

All are described on GSA's website.

http://www.gsa.ac.uk/

The Scottish Funding Council has awarded this

"suite" of programmes 12 funded places to be

distributed across the 3 programmes. This means

that 12 students who apply to study on these

courses will be selected and offered a Fee Waiver

(although there is no maintenance grant

attached).

These Studentships are open to Scottish and EU

students (in line with the recent changes in Fee

Status of students from the UK who do not

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Off they go!

qualify as Scottish). Applications are now being

accepted and will continue to be until an initial

deadline of 31st July.

Queries should be addressed to Irene Bell, Design

Innovation Co-ordinator, at:

[email protected]

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Image above:

Preserving Human Dignity/ Transformation Game

Designer: Benjamin Pawle

http://benpawle.co.uk/

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At 15.50 (CET), Barbara Ghellaand Genadi Belan

left Milan on two Fiat Panda, bound to Bangkok.

A long journey through the Italian boot, Greece,

Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

Tajikistan, China, Vietnam, the Land of Thousand

Smiles.. ...all the way to Bangkok.

Some 14.000 km, expected arrival by mid-August

on Sukhumvit 33.

Next stop, Istanbul, stay tuned for more!