LA FORZA DELLA FORMA · INTERNI

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In April’s Interni magazine, the focus is Materiæ. For Salotto Dispatch, we wrote about Marc Fornes, a Brooklyn-based designer building large-scale organic structures at the intersection of art and computational design.

Salotto Dispatch is a monthly column curated by Salotto NYC for Interni Magazine

La Forza della Forma
written by Nathalie Pozzi
published on Interni • April 2026 • Materiæ

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MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY

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Marc Fornes’ most recent project, The Orb, is a 10-meter-tall aluminum pavilion commissioned by Google for its headquarters campus in Mountain View, California. The structure is assembled from 6,441 individual parts and held together by more than 217,000 rivets.

Marc Fornes designs by writing code.

Under his studio THEVERYMANY, he builds large-scale organic structures that blur the line between art and architecture -- thin-shell constructions assembled from thousands of flat parts that curve into something alive.

His work is in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou.

LAOCOONTE · SPAIN

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The latest issue of Laocoonte (nº 12) on "Estética y juego" (Aesthetics and Play) features an interview about the collaborative work done by Nakworks with game designer Eric Zimmerman over the years.

Full Interview (in Spanish):
Conversando con
Nathalie Pozzi y Eric Zimmerman

written by
Alejandro Lozano

Laocoonte is a biannual publication exploring culture and society from a transdisciplinary lens, published by the Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (SEyTA).

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10 CENTESIMI · INTERNI

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In October's Interni magazine, the focus is the Material World. For Salotto Dispatch, we wrote about Sure We Can, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that supports canners. Sure We Can addresses the U.S. redemption system where canners collect bottles for just 5 cents each - advocating to increase it to 10 cents and highlighting how systemic design impacts reducing plastic production.

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Sure We Can

Salotto Dispatch is a monthly column curated by Salotto NYC for Interni Magazine

10 Centesimi
written Nathalie Pozzi
published on Interni • October 2025 • Material World

photo
© PET Lamps
© Alfredo Chiarappa

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Le confezioni, portate in un centro di raccolta, vanno infine suddivise in base ai produttori: con oltre 70 marche d’acqua, separarle è arduo.

In questo sistema complesso, che si estende su micro e macro economie, nasce Sure We Can, la prima associazione non-profit di ‘canners’ di New York City. Fondato da Ana de Luco e Eugene Gadsden, il centro di raccolta di Sure We Can è un hub di attivismo, spazio comunitario e centro di sostenibilità.

Le regole sono precise: le bottiglie o lattine non devono essere schiacciate, il codice a barre deve essere leggibile, altrimenti il contenitore non viene accettato dai produttori. È per questo che canners e produttori trasportano larghi volumi d’aria.

Inoltre, in base al Bottle Bill, l’onere di riciclo da parte del produttore dipende dal contenuto della confezione, non dalla confezione stessa: gli energy drink e i succhi non richiedono i cinque centesimi di reso, l’acqua sì. È per questo motivo che i drink energetici sono ancora imbottigliati in confezioni di plastica rigida mentre il design delle bottiglie dell’acqua è stato ridotto a confezioni sottili e leggere.

Sure We Can sostiene la campagna per l’aumento del rimborso da cinque a dieci centesimi. Il valore del reso, rimasto immutato da 43 anni, rivela una distorsione: i cinque centesimi del 1982 equivalgono a 1,5 centesimi nel 2025. Questa sproporzione sminuisce il valore intrinseco della raccolta del singolo oggetto (bottiglia o lattina).

L’aumento a dieci centesimi – con l’espansione del programma a più tipologie di bevande – rappresenta un atto di redesign radicale: stimola nuove forme di de-sign dell’imballaggio, incentiva il recupero del materiale e riconosce il valore del lavoro di chi recupera oggetti così diffusi da essere diventa-ti invisibili.

Dieci centesimi, grazie!

TRA LE LINEE · INTERNI

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The July/August issue of Interni is out — and we wrote about the work of Antenna Design, whose founders Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger are transforming the urban experience of millions of people who travel on the New York subway every day.

Salotto Dispatch is a monthly column curated by Salotto NYC for Interni Magazine

Tra Le Linee
written by Irene Maria Bissoli and Nathalie Pozzi
published on Interni • July/August 2025 • Summer vibes 

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MUSEUMS JOURNAL · BERLIN

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The 2/2025 issue of Museums Journal is out — and Jessica Ekomane’s Antechamber sound installation is among the featured projects, curated by Emma Enderby at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

More about Antechamber

Museums Journal 2/25
 

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“The Museumsjournal is the leading magazine covering museums in Berlin and Potsdam. Published by Kulturprojekte Berlin on a quarterly basis, it provides exclusive information on upcoming projects.”

The Museumsjournal

COVER 42 · LONDON

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Playtest Carpet is among the projects featured in the Spring 2016 issue of Cover. Check out the “Insight” column.

 

Cover 42 · Spring 2016

COVER 42 features the latest work by Milan-based rug brand cc-tapis in collaboration with designers such as Patricia Urquiola and Federico Pepe.

COVER highlights Ai Weiwei's latest art installation in Paris, Tom Dixon's new carpet collection for Ege carpets and Iwan Maktabi's fantastic One Carpet for Love collection with Lebanese designers.

The new issue also features Jameel Prize 4 nominee Dave Chalmers Alesworth, PORCUPINE ROCKS Ltd, the making of The Afghan History Carpet, innovative Belgian company Papilio and much much more!

[Cover 42 · Spring 2016]

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Progetto grafico 27 · AIAP

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Interference appears in Progetto grafico 27, an issue on the theme of “play."

Progetto grafico is an international graphic design magazine published by Aiap, Italian association for visual communication design.

A reference for the culture of visual communication design in Italy since its beginning, Progetto grafico is a critical forum on graphic design.

 

Aiap Edizioni, Milano, 2015
isbn: 9771824130006

F.to 21x28 cm, pp. 160. Italiano e inglese

WORKS OF GAME · The MIT Press

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Games and art have intersected at least since the early twentieth century, as can be seen in the Surrealists' use of Exquisite Corpse and other games, Duchamp's obsession with Chess, and Fluxus event scores and boxes -- to name just a few examples. Over the past fifteen years, the synthesis of art and games has clouded for both artists and gamemakers. Contemporary art has drawn on the tool set of videogames, but has not considered them a cultural form with its own conceptual, formal, and experiential affordances. For their part, game developers and players focus on the innate properties of games and the experiences they provide, giving little attention to what it means to create and evaluate fine art. In Works of Game, John Sharp bridges this gap, offering a formal aesthetics of games that encompasses the commonalities and the differences between games and art.

Sixteen Tons is on the cover of the book Works of Game by John Sharp.
Below is the official overview of the publication. We love it!

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Works of Game
On the Aesthetics of Games and Art

By John Sharp

Associate Professor of Games and Learning at Parsons the New School for Design and a member of the game design collective Local No. 12.

Sharp describes three communities of practice and offers case studies for each. "Game Art," which includes such artists as Julian Oliver, Cory Arcangel, and JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) treats videogames as a form of popular culture from which can be borrowed subject matter, tools, and processes. "Artgames," created by gamemakers including Jason Rohrer, Brenda Romero, and Jonathan Blow, explore territory usually occupied by poetry, painting, literature, or film. Finally, "Artists' Games" -- with artists including Blast Theory, Mary Flanagan, and the collaboration of Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman -- represents a more synthetic conception of games as an artistic medium. The work of these gamemakers, Sharp suggests, shows that it is possible to create game-based artworks that satisfy the aesthetic and critical values of both the contemporary art and game communities.

APERTURE · NEW YORK

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The Fall 2013 issue of Aperture Magazine is out… and Interference is among the featured projects.
Check out “A Century of Play” in the “What Matters Now?” column, illustrated with a photo by Cameron Sterling.

More details about Interference

 

Aperture magazine · Fall 2013
Photos © 2011 Cameron Sterling

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“Taking its name from the 1967 film by Jacques Tati, this issue explores how photography illuminates, facilitates, and participates in the many definitions of play-from role-play and sex-play to theater and jokes to leisure and fantasy.”

Aperture 212 - Fall 2013

Photo © Cameron Sterling

GAME · THE FUTURE OF PLAY · SCIENCE GALLERY

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Interference is featured in GAME.

GAME is a publication that was created as a legacy piece and exhibition guide for the Science Gallery exhibition ‘GAME: The Future of Play’. Speculative and playful in design, the publication presents the core target audience with a unhinged take on the imagery of gaming, far from the action heroes of role player games and caricatures of mobile gaming apps.  Studio Suss

More details about GAME: The Future of Play

 

Exhibition
Science Gallery Dublin / Game

Location
Dublin

Year
2013

Curators
Steve Collins
Michael John Gorman
Mads Haahr

Graphic Design:
Studio Suss

MOCO LOCO

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MOCO LOCO publishes a video about Interference

Article
Interference installation by Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman

Publication
MOCO LOCO

Year
2012

 

MOCO LOCO is a web magazine dedicated to modern contemporary design and architecture.

THE CREATOR PROJECT

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The Creator Project / Vice publishes an interview with Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman

Article
Art, Architecture, And Gaming Meet In Interference: Q&A With Eric Zimmerman And Nathalie Pozzi

Written by
Lara Sedbon

Magazine
The Creator Project

Year
2012

 

Founded by a partnership between Intel and VICE, The Creators Project celebrates visionary artists across multiple disciplines who are using technology in innovative ways to push the boundaries of creative expression.

UdK · BERLIN

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The Graduate School for the Arts is a international, post-graduate interdisciplinary program at Berlin University of the Arts. The Fellows in residence are highly qualified graduates from all artistic and academic disciplines who regard the communication and exchange with other disciplines as a prerequisite for their work.

The visiting professorship, in partnership with game designer Eric Zimmerman, revolved around the concept of playtesting. At regular meetings, the Fellows shared works in progress in order to spark critique and further development. In the spirit of playtesting, the works were not just discussed, but instead were experienced: feedback was based on the actual experience of a working project in progress.

In addition, the summer professorship included a requirement of presenting a public project during the residency. To this end, the project Starry Heavens was staged at the Play Publik festival in Berlin, in collaboration with Eric Zimmerman.

Don’t Follow these Rules! A Primer for Playtesting  is an essay written with Eric Zimmerman that was inspired by the experience at the University of the Arts.

It outlines best practices for a playtesting design methodology and is included in the collection play:test, published by the Graduate School of the Arts in Berlin.

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Visiting Professor

Academic Institution
UdK · Berlin University of the Arts
Graduate School of the Arts

Location
Berlin · Germany

Year
2012

 

EPIFANIO · ESTONIA

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Article
Performative spaces: the loose boundaries of architecture

Written by
Rebecca Jones
Nathalie Pozzi

Magazine
EPIFANIO 11

Rebecca Jones and Nathalie Pozzi met in the Watermill Center in Southampton, Long Island while working with theater designer and artist Robert Wilson.

Naturally, a discussion around theater and architecture developed – granting each of them a new understanding of their interests in the field.

An initial exchange regarding the work of architect Marco Casagrande led to the discovery of many other architectural projects that embrace performance in their design. This article is the beginning of their larger research into the concept of “performative architecture.”

 

A+U · JAPAN

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A+U publishes an article about the Wood Program and the Lastu Summer Sauna a project developed under the Wood Program of Helsinki University of Technology.

Team
Peter Westerlund (Finland) with Adam Guernier (Australia), Nathalie Pozzi (Italy), Isshin Sasaki and Koji Hashimoto  (Japan), Max Lönnqvist (Sweden), Sevra Davis and Nathaniel Moore (Usa).

Article
Wood Program

Publication
A+U

Year
2008

 

WOOD WORKS · FINLAND

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Wood Works publishes the Lastu Summer Sauna, a project developed under the Wood Program of Helsinki University of Technology.

Team
Peter Westerlund (Finland) with Adam Guernier (Australia), Nathalie Pozzi (Italy), Isshin Sasaki and Koji Hashimoto  (Japan), Max Lönnqvist (Sweden), Sevra Davis and Nathaniel Moore (Usa).

Article
Lastu, Summer sauna in Fiskars

Publication
Wood Works

Year
2007

 

PUU · FINLAND

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Puu publishes an article about the Lastu Summer Sauna, a project developed under the Wood Program of Helsinki University of Technology.

Team
Peter Westerlund (Finland) with Adam Guernier (Australia), Nathalie Pozzi (Italy), Isshin Sasaki and Koji Hashimoto  (Japan), Max Lönnqvist (Sweden), Sevra Davis and Nathaniel Moore (Usa).

 

ARK · FINLAND

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Arkkitehti examines architecture critically from several angles. The topics addressed range from urban planning to holiday homes, from aesthetics to ecological construction, and from the history architecture to the latest global trends.

Established in 1903, Arkkitehti is published by the Finnish Association of Architects.

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Ark publishes the Lastu Summer Sauna, a project developed under the Wood Program of Helsinki University of Technology.

Team
Peter Westerlund (Finland) with Adam Guernier (Australia), Nathalie Pozzi (Italy), Isshin Sasaki and Koji Hashimoto  (Japan), Max Lönnqvist (Sweden), Sevra Davis and Nathaniel Moore (Usa).

Article
Light Trap

Publication
ARK
Finnish Architectural Review Arkkitehti

Year
2004

 

PARPAINGS · FRANCE

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Parpaings publishes an article about Casagrande & Rintala

Publication:
Parpaings n.31

Article:
Casagrande & Rintala : l’architecture qui sème le désordre

Written by:
Nathalie Pozzi