Anthropocene

Anthropocene describes the relationship of mankind with nature and artifacts through a series of conceptual works made by a selection of italian and international designers. Selected projects help to define a special relationship between humans and the natural environment, taking inspiration from both natural and manufacturing processes. A pseudo-naturalistic story that tells about advanced fossil, human traces and digital metamorphosis.

  The Dronozoi series is the result of an aesthetic research that envisions three possible metamorphosis of the drones into hypothetical biomechanical beings. This biomimetic evolution was obtained by crossing the functional parameters of flight with camouflages techniques inspired by the rounded silica caskets that constitute the body of the diatoms, microalgae present in the marine and freshwater environment. Starting from the research initiated with Geomerce, the project Technofossils investigates the potential of a laboratory procedure called “Leaf-Clearing”, which was introduced in Palaeontology to study the changes involved in the evolution of the planet’s flora. Technofossils explores this process through the use of light. The project wants to give evidence to these traces that, once immersed in a transparent resin, are illuminated from the bottom upward through a radiant LED light.

  Time by Massimiliano Adami is a “living” vase, born almost by chance, self-generating itself under the eyes of the eyes of visitors, thanks to the power of water, the pressure of the ice and the effects of oxidation on the iron dust. The high-voltage electricity, applied in certain specific conditions, is able to create “drawings” that show its propagation on a surface. These abstract drawings created by combustion showed the fractal geometry inside electrical energy. Carlo Contin used this feature to decorate a variety of everyday objects, like these simple vases.

Anthropocene
curated by Stefano Maffei, with Marcello Pirovano
Designers: Massimiliano Adami, Carlo Contin, Lorenzo Damiani Ami Drach & Dov Ganchrow, Adrea de Chirico, Gionata Gatto, Mogu, Nucleo, Sovrappensiero Tecnificio, Yesenia Thibault-Picazo