FDVLAB – FABBRICA DEL VAPORE LABS ASSOCIATION, IN COLLABORATION WITH OTTAGONO AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF MILAN HAS DEVOTED ITS FUORI SALONE TO ISSUES LIKE SUSTAINABILITY, ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND URBAN GREEN.

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A.I.A.C.E. – Milano has as a mission  both the production and the promotion of artistic works based on new technologies use and youngsters education. Thanks to a fruitful cooperation between IED, Istituto Europeo del Design and A.I.A.C.E.-Milano, three video-installation especially conceived by IED students will be presented.
IED director, Rossella Bertolazzi, decided to assign to four teachers (Tiziana Gemin, Painè Quadrelli, Davide Sgalippa and Paolo Solcia), professionals in different multimedia fields (IT, music, audiovisual production), the task to follow their students while creating video-installations on the topic of “sustainable design”.
The installations, which match the opportunities offered by new technologies to narration in order to create new forms of interactive expression, allow the audience to think about the issues proposed exploiting their recreational and entertainment features.
The students have presented the results of their research to a selection committee made of A.I.A.C.E. and IED representatives. Among the six installations proposed three of them have been selected for the event:

Watery Duo - waw-tuh-ree-doo-oh
Water is the most precious resource for men. To preserve it, the students have decided to approach the topic in a very simple and practical, but in the meantime highly technological way. They created two water musical instruments: two harps. The harps cords are made of water, therefore every time the users touch the cords they can compose celestial melodies in Sol b. Thanks to solar energy pumps which recycle the water flowing into lower containers, the installations works in a loop, not wasting water in the process.
Indovina la Ricetta – Guess the Recipe
Analyzing three recipes of the Italian culinary tradition you can discover that the ingredients used to cook the dishes travel thousands of kilometres before getting to our tables. This incident doesn’t affect their taste or colour but it implies an exaggerated and pointless environmental use. The users will be asked to assemble the recipes choosing the ingredients, putting them in a pot and following on a screen the route from the production place to the destination on our tables.
Sink Pink
The interactive installation is made of a videocamera connected to a screen which works as a virtual mirror. When the user opens a tap, the water flows away; the face portrayed in the upper screen, deprived of its main vital element, dehydrates gradually. In the meantime, in a lower screen appear informative videos which explain the consequences of water waste. When the user closes the tap, gradually the water flows back to the upper screen. Users’ choices affect the followers’ action to symbolize that our behaviour concerning eco-sustainability affects other’s people life.


A.I.A.C.E. Milano is one of the labs associated with La Fabbrica del Vapore; they are a founder member of the Cultural FDVLAB Association.
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