FIRENZE FUTURA

@FIRENZE CAMBIA MUSICA
SASCHALL, FIRENZE January 11 2009

Alessandro Marianantoni
Roberto Castellani e Lucia Barna (SS-67 Architetti)

FIRENZE FUTURA is an interactive video installation whose contents were decided by the young people from Florence. Turned into co-authors of the installation itself, they provided pictures, movie clips, 3 D animations and reconstructions of their city. The material was new and already existing.

The contents, around 700 between videos and pictures, were collected through a web page and ads on blogs,
newspapers and also word of mouth, begun one month prior the event. The material was organized into themes: the city, the river, the parks and the movement (of people) with the intent to tell a story able to depict Florence through its urban elements: the one famous worldwide and traditionally loved by the tourists, but also through monuments and buildings recently built and, even, not yet built and able to suggest a "Florence of the future".

Inside the Saschall there were 1000 cards divided into the 4 themes as above specified. The audience selected a card, dropped it into the mailbox built for the event, and equipped with sensors able to recognize the cards themselves. Then these contents were projected on the 12- meter-long screen.

Thanks to
Serena Perini
Emanuele Santini
Michela Spera
George Sansom
Michele Bianchi