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LIVING NATURE
New realities and lifestyles

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MICROREALITIES
A project about places and people

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INTRODUCTION
Microrealities was presented for the first time during the IX edition of the
Architecture Venice Biennale in September 2004 at the "Corderie dell’Arsenale". The
installation consisted of 4 models that contained the projections of the 4 projects.
In October 2005 Microrealities was presented to the Graz Museum of Modern Art in
Austria in occasion of the exhibition “M City. European Cityscapes”.
The exhibition displayed 4 large plastic models enclosed in crates. Peepholes where
strategically placed from where it was possible to clearly observe the interior. Videos
where projected on the museum's walls.
In December 2005 at the Leopolda Station in Florence on the occasion of the
exhibition “The Storytellers” Microrealities was presented. In May of the same year,
in Montreal at the Yellow Fish Art Gallery, Microrealities was put on view with prints
and 4 videos.
In June 2006 the exhibition was organized at the International Center of Architectural
Studies Andrea Palladio, Barbaran da Porto Palace in Vicenza. The exhibition
proposed 4 plastic models placed in crates with peepholes from which the visitors
could peer inside, meanwhile, projections of the 4 videos on the wall of the museum
and printed images of the work.
During the same occasion Ricky Burdett , director of the X edition of the Architecture
Venice Biennale, and Marco de Michelis, dean of The Design and Art Faculty of the
IUAV University of Venice, presented the book “Microrealities” published by Skira.

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The idea is that many small situations, when combined, can
generate larger, more significant stories.
People’s actions can determine the identity of a space.
The project proposes visions in which, through the reordering of
potential and energy, conditions are created which stimulate
encounters, exchanges and sharing.
Creativity in processes leads to the most stimulating realities.

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1. THE GATES OF THE CITY
New symbols for new borders
2. SHOPPING CENTER+PUBLIC SPACES+………..
The possibility of creating new urban centers
3. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN CITY
Living the seasons
4. SHANGHAI: 100 NEW SUBWAY STATIONS
An opportunity to produce identity and a sense of belonging on the
outskirts of the city

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3. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN CITY
Living the seasons
To leave the cities on Friday evening by car, bicycle or subway, and
find yourself in a new reality.
A reality where time is paced by the rhythms of nature.
To have a cabin surrounded by greenery.
To closely experience the seasons and their cycles.
To learn how to grow the products of the earth.
To share spaces and get to know other people.
A place where small children can play.
Recreational activities to regenerate body and spirit.
To try to attain a simple life.

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A Perfect Weekend
New lifestyles for new realities

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VIEW WITH A ROOM
Abitare il Tempo, Verona, 2007

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THE GARDEN CITY
SAIE Spring, Bologna 2008

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MORE WITH LESS
Enjoy life in a changing world
Salone del Mobile, Milan 2009

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LIVING IN NATURE
An Eco-sustainable Community

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I have always been attracted to Nature that manifests its force in
unexpected contexts - when at the side of a road the asphalt cracks
and is lifted by a tuft of grass, or in some long-abandoned plaza one
can see the grid of cement slabs retraced in moss and weeds,
or even when any pavement meets a vertical wall and small plants
laboriously force themselves through the juncture sprouting leaves
seeking light and life at any cost.
It has also happened that I have found myself within contexts of
deterioration where people, in an attempt to redeem the surrounding
poverty and decline, have placed potted plants and flowers along their
window sills in an attentive display of care; as if this gesture represented
the last thin connection to the idea of a dignified ambient condition.
Aldo Cibic

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Pocket landscapes
Drawings and installations by Aldo Cibic
After having approached greenery on a large scale, with projects shown
at the Venice Biennial, Abitare il Tempo and Saie Spring in Bologna, but
also a large inhabited rural park soon to be built in Shanghai, Aldo Cibic
comes to terms with a miniature landscape aesthetic, working on a
poetics that takes concrete form in structures/containers/objects
(all in iron) to contain small gardens, some designed for indoor settings,
others for outdoor locations, with the sole desire of representing an idea
of nature in unexpected ways and contexts. The exhibition is based on a
very simple conception of landscape: the tree, the flower garden, the
vegetable garden, represented in 5 installations and 20 drawings.
Credits
Project realized in collaboration with Cristiano Urban
Planting consultant Camilla Zanarotti
Objects fabricated by De Castelli
Communication Daniela Spiezio
Graphics dogtrot