The Post-Anthropocene Selfie Maker

with Alessio D'Ellena, Danilo Di Cuia and Parasite 2.0, App, Identity, Website, with MAXXI Museum, 2016

The Post-Anthropocene Selfie Maker, 2016 The Post-Anthropocene Selfie Maker, 2016 The Post-Anthropocene Selfie Maker, 2016 The Post-Anthropocene Selfie Maker, 2016
The Post-Anthropocene Selfie Maker, 2016

The installation transforms the piazza of the Museum in an apparently playful set design that offers hints to reflect on the most critical topics of our days: from issues related to sustainability, to the approach of the architect in the age of Anthropocene, the current geological era where the activities of mankind are the main causes of territorial and climate changes.

The app offers the possibility to transform the installation through the use of a smartphone: taking a selfie in one of the pavilions, one can replace the background with sceneries of uncontaminated nature. The image created reveals the disappearance of the boundary between natural and artificial and questions at the same time the conventional ways of doing architecture.