Saviola is technical sponsor for the installation ” I am What I Throw Away” a project of Italo Rota and NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts, within the exhibition-event INTERNI Cross Vision for the 2024 fuorisalone from 15 to 28 April in the Cortile d’Onore of the University of Milan in Via Festa del Perdono,7.
With the involvement of the students from the Academy’s Design Area, this installation introduces the use of recycled and innovative materials, offering an immersive experience that, in its structural essentiality, transfers a narrative on the universal principles of sustainability and the importance of sharing and meeting different knowledge.
Inspired by the Living structures of the American designer Ken Isaacs – a modular system, now at its 50th anniversary and based on matrices to build living structures at low cost, with minimal environmental impact – the installation “I am what I throw away” takes up the concept of matrix in architecture with the use of recycled materials and combining traditional craftsmanship and industrial experimentation, makes visible and understandable the ethics of the circularity of processes and the virtuous results of separate collection. Common and transversally diffused elements, such as a table or a chair, become illustrative designs of the consequences of consumption, while the profiles in 3D printing from recycled wire make silent workers who populate the world’s metropolises protagonists.
Indeed, “I am what I throw away” presents an architecture composed of various elements that represent the annual consumption of products by an average household.
These elements include a double throne seat, which crosses the height of the installation representative of plastic containers, a table in recycled aluminum that refers instead to the number of cans, wood panels recomposed, a PVC cover banner made from NABA students’ graduation banners and some posters that return a visual map to communicate in an aesthetic key the message of the importance of the circular economy and sustainability, indispensable in contemporary society.
The objective of the NABA project is to establish a dialogue with citizens to raise awareness on some issues for sustainable development, such as the circularity of processes, the recovery of resources and the importance of proper separate collection. A virtuous collaboration that translates into a meeting between the world of education and participatory observation by visitors. It could not miss the Ecological Panel as a compositional element.