The “open” (free) version of the TEDx Padua at Palazzo Bo, in the heart of Padua university center, has attracted thousands of visitors on May 13th 2017.
The main objective of TEDx Padua this year was to make innovation accessible to all, make it concrete, palpable bringing an immersive experience to anyone there.
And what better location if not a place known and shared by “all”: the university of Padua, and its pulsating heart at Palazzo del Bo, home of the Rector and the School of Law of Padua.
And I would say that they have succeeded: this initiative brought great success and numerous visitors.
The old court has become, on this particular occasion, a sort of giant domino game board where each tile became a mirror; a giant kaleidoscope, which, thanks to the many reflective mirrors of the ancient courtyard, presents the audience with a fragmented reality, no longer one sided or equal to itself. The designers expressed it so: “defragmenting the past in order to design the future”.
Riflettendo is the name of the main installation that has come to life in this magnificent scenario, a play of words: reflecting, reflecting on the past and the time, deconstructing space and making it tangible, transforming it into a constructive, materic element that can be used “to design the future”, looking and going beyond those spaces and those “comfort zones” that we create.
Reflect on time, reflect in a mirror, reflect oneself, reinventing the space that surrounds the environment; reflecting the space and the people who surround us.
The installation subtly interacts with the historical context of the ancient court of Bo, amplifying it, thanks to the mirrored partitions that allow the discovery of countless new angles.
The desired effect is one of distortion of space and reality – a space so familiar to us – and it forces all those who approach the work to consider and accept new and different points of view: the project distorts the way we see reality, it is a multiplier of spaces, images, content and looks, which allows the visitor to perceive a known and familiar place in a totally different way.
The mind is stimulated to see things from a unique perspective and to create a visual and sensory experience, forcing us to perceive and consider the place in a different, more personal way.
The installation, designed and built by architects Marco Cellini and Placido
Luise, is mainly based on the concept of TEDx Padova 2017 “Tomorrow, Now”; it is minimal, but of great effect.
A composition of eighteen panels, covered with slabs of reflective mirror, three meters high, one meter wide and fifteen centimeters thick.
Everything is then placed on carpet tiles screwed together and raised so as “to wrap” the 250 square meters indoor court: with more than 300 supports NM3 of the Pedestal line, Eterno Ivica has secured a raised floor which is stable, flat and obviously safe.
