The habitability of the city is facing the evolution of new economies, of new behaviours, and of new electronic medias.
The new urban furniture elements are urban links that connect:
Different functions and activities. Typological hybridisations are the representation of new social and economic phenomena. In fact, the crisis of industrial cities and of modern design has made all kinds of zoning inefficient in cities and in the distribution of interior space; houses, offices, factories, malls, centres for leisure, are all spatial typologies whose boundaries are more and more vague.
Material and virtual spaces. Two categories that need to find ways to coexist, to overlap, and interact. The contemporary city receives a flux of information and energies which is sometimes more important than the material existence of the buildings. In the society of information and communication, traditional group relations based on physical presence are gradually being replaced by relations between virtual bodies (Internet, TV, telephone...).
Public behaviours and private attitudes. We now live in a world in which staging one's own life is accepted, and sometimes even wished for: private phone calls from cell phones in public places, television broadcasts that show intimate moments, to watch and be watched while walking down the streets, squares, virtual places.


  Donatello Amabile   Italia
  LightHouse Family

  


A collection of luminous furniture for the city: new urban information and advertisement panels.
Microarchitectures deriving from the hybridisation of existing urban furniture and domestic lighting.
donatelloamabile@yahoo.it


  Ermanno Aparo   Italia

  U.F.O urban furniture oriented

A ribbon that accommodates urban fluxes, integrating multiple elements: bus stops, small advertisements, areas for elderly and children, etc. A system that makes differences a value, a common linguistic root for all the dialects of new media metropolises.
portofejo@iol.it


  Vilma Cernikyte   Lituania

  Eyes of city

The street mirror becomes an informative window for emergencies and useful services.
It is distributed in the city's crucial areas, and is a combination of simple and diffused signs and complex technology.
vilmaic@yahoo.com


  Gabriel Dan   Israele

  Addy

Addy is customisation system for mass advertisement communication; it adds new experiences to the urban space. Addy is a new approach that gives way to scenarios that can make advertisement communication socially acceptable: services and aesthetic experiences that foster communication and enrich our lives.
wwwgabriel@yahoo.com


  Alessandro Mantia   Italia

  Town Sweet Town

A bus stop that recreates house-like atmospheres and makes it possible to enjoy additional activities: relax, refreshment, entertainment. Being a modular system it offers many possibilities of use and can be located in various areas. The roofing element is fitted with vertical screens that offer useful services to the public.
disegnale@hotmail .com


  Silvia Martinez   Argentina

  ABC little things

Giocando su superfici interattive, essi possono creare segni visivi attraverso la luce, il colore, le ombre, i suoni e i graffiti. The inspiration for this project was drawn from the ability children have to create their own personal and imaginative scenarios. A book, a ball, a magic lantern. Children are the protagonists of an experience which has advertisement for support. They can create visual signs with light, colour, shades, sounds and graffiti by playing on the interactive surfaces.
silviamarti21@hotmail.com


  Suhyun Park   Corea

  Temporary & continuous

Temporary & continuous is a panel system to be applied to traditional scaffolding, increasing the value of urban environment dynamics. It is a way to make hidden displays visible, an opportunity to offer services, information, and to show either advertisement and goods on facades being restructured.
park_suhyun@hotmail.com


  Esperanza Rambla   Spagna

  QuiIlVerdeE'CuratoDa...

Nature offers emotional and visual comfort; it softens the unpleasant image of the urban space, and gives it an identity at the same time. An attractive, humanised urban landscape with its own features, which make the identity of the city more unique. A relation system between advertisement and nature that refers to the domestic iconography, and that permits a more environment-friendly consumption of media messages.
espemilan@hotmail.com


  José Roman Sanz Navarro
   Messico

   tappePe

TappePe is an element taken from domestic tradition and brought to an urban scale. It creates a communication and advertisement space around which people gather and interact in a personal and surprising way. It is a carpet made of two areas: one for interaction and one for projection. The interaction area is fitted with an icon menu: when walked on, the icons transmit advertisement and/or communications on a transparent crystal sphere that becomes opaque to make it visible.
pepesanzmx@hotmail.com



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