LEGO PIXEL ART

cured by Cesare Bianchi

Lego bricks have been used to represent anything from movies to monuments to historical characters. But what happens if you only have five or six bricks to represent a chair, a papaya, or the concept of risk? It’s much more complicated, but very fun indeed. While playing The Lego Pixel Art game you will be asked to create a two-dimensional figure using a small set of pieces. Then you will be asked to to guess what concept other players have been trying to represent with their set of bricks. Participants will be able to experience the two aspects of creative expression: creation and interpretation.

This activity will be available on September 8 (6:00pm to 10:00pm) and September 9 (10:00am to 10:00pm). Partecipation is free.

 

CREASTORIA

cured by Pietro Gravino

CreaStoria is a game in which the players are also authors who collaborate in the invention of stories.

You can chooses a starter among a series of proposals, and from then you have to write a few lines to carry on the story. Be careful, you will only have a limited number of characters.

As you progress through the game, you will find yourself in the very middle of collaborative stories. At each round you will to pick a possible evolution among those displayed on the screen and  then add their personal contribution. In this way each story has endless potential directions and ramifications, and it’s up to the players to decide – through their choices and creativity – which ones are the most fruitful and interesting.

This activity will be available on September 8 (6:00pm to 10:00pm) and September 9 (10:00am to 10:00pm). Partecipation is free.

 

BEAUTY EXPLORE

cured by Miguel Ibanez Berganza

Imagine that you can choose, among all possible faces, the “ideal” face. What would it be its features? Would it hide among its proportions that golden one, as it is argued in the Treaty of 1509 De Divine Proportion by Luca Pacioli? Would anyone agree on your choice? To what extent do our ideal faces resemble? Are there different “archetypes” of beautiful faces? Do they possess special features, such as  specific measures or proportions, small details, a given shape of mouth or eyes. You can try to answer this questions by playing with BEAUTYXPLORE. Thanks to a genetic algorithm, an optimization strategy inspired by natural selection, you can ‘sculpt’ your ideal face and confront you with the preferences of others.

This activity will be available on September 8 (6:00pm to 10:00pm) and September 9 (10:00am to 10:00pm). Partecipation is free.

CITYCHRONE

cured by Indaco Biazzo

In Paris public transport works fine.
In Rome you can easily move only  if you live next to a metro stop.

How many times have we heard these phrases? Many, and yet we can hardly quantify how better public transport is in Paris, and why. Would our mobility really improve if we moved next to a metro stop? Could we measure this improvement? Would this improvement depend on the line or on the stop? What’s the best subway plan in order to enhance traffic mobility?
The CityChrone project tries to answer these questions through  a quantitative analyse of urban mobility in big towns, with particular attention to public transport. CityChroneTable is a touch screen table allowing  general public  to witness in real-time how every single change can affect general mobility in a given town.

This activity will be available on September 8 (6:00pm to 10:00pm) and September 9 (10:00am to 10:00pm). Partecipation is free.