Biennale Urbana
Biennale Urbana is an initiative composed of artists and architects from the Italian collective Stalker. During a workshop at the Instituto Svizzero of Rome, I designed the premises that will become the platform Biennale Urbana. The collective was looking for a way to document and share their journey. Many constraints were applied there: the importance of geographical positions, efficient and on-the-go usage, and high accessibility. Note that this project had artistic experimental purposes.
Interaction Design
UX Design
Full Stack Dev
Telegram Bot
Concept
I ended up with fairly simple solutions using Telegram as the input. For each topic or project, they shared videos, audio, locations, or even documents in a group chat. A bot would then monitor the group, reporting everything to the web platform where the media would be shared with everyone.
I named the bot 'Andrei Tarkovsky,' a reference to the director of
the movie that gave its name to the eponymous collective, Stalker.
Telegram was a great solution—easy to adopt, multimodal, and
privacy-focused. It worked so well that even the website
management was handled through Telegram.
Platform
This is the page visitors land on. Each path, represented by a
multi-line drawing, corresponds to a 'caminata' (a walk) the group
made, which has a virtual counterpart: a Telegram channel. The map
is interactive, and each point redirects to the location where the
media was shared in the channel's feed.
