habitAzione

11 March 2010 Fondazione Bruno Kessler

From Thursday 11 to Monday 22 March, in Trento, on show the art installation by Anna Scalfi on the cooperation between FBK researchers and a group of elderly citizens within the frame work of the European project ‘Netcarity’.

(v.l.) Translation into the language of art of the work carried out by Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) researchers with a group of elderly citizens of Trento within the framework of the European project Netcarity, dedicated to the improvement of life in the home by using new technologies.

This is the meaning of “habitAzione”, the installation created by the artist Anna Scalfi with Chiara Leonardi (researcher of Unit I3 in FBK), Massimo Zancanaro (head of the FBK Research Unit 13), Fabio Pianesi (FBK coordinator for Netcarity) and Francesca Gennai (Regional Institute for Social Studies and Research), on show for the public from Thursday 11 to Monday 22 March at the FBK headquarters in Via S. Croce in Trento.

The visitors of “habitAzione” will be free to move through the floor plan, traced in 1 to 1 size, of a 70 m² dwelling that includes furnishings and cooking area, in which everyday objects interact with the technological prototypes studied by the researchers to boost the feeling of safety, the will to remain independent and the psychological, cognitive and emotional well-being of the elderly.

Anna Scalfi, within the Clean floor project at FBK, has asked the researchers to translate into artistic gesture the basic idea of their scientific work, documenting the approach between the practices of art and the motivations of science. In particular, “habitAzione” illustrates the dialogue that was created between the FBK researchers and the people of the centre for services for the elderly, the Centro Servizi Anziani (cooperative Kaleidoscopio) of Trento, of the University for the Elderly and for Leisure Time (UTETD, Trento) and of the Margherita Grazioli public organization for social services in Povo (Trento) within the framework of the project ‘Netcarity’, being conducted since 2007 together with the Autonomous Province of Trento.

The elderly people working in the project contributed in imagining the first technological scenarios, tested and evaluated the prototypes that the researchers created along the way and organized a collection of materials relating to their domestic life using various tools of expression, such as diaries, maps, drawings and pictures. This path can be experienced by visiting habitAzione, from Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.. Guided visits also available, booked on request by calling: (++39) 0461/314616-0461/314620). Free admission.

For further information:

The “habitAzione” installation: http://i3.fbk.eu/en/habitAzione
The NETCARITY project: http://www.netcarity.org/NetcarityNews-Issue-March-20.644.0.html

http://www.fbk.eu