Currently working as research assistant at the Estonian Accademy of Arts, involved in the EUREGIO international research project "Helsinki Tallinn transportation and planning scenario"
Competition Entry for Cembrit design competition in Malmi - Finland
With Panu Lehtovuori - Hannaliisa Johnson - Kalle Toiskallio
Five anecdotes about a friend of mine (I have nothing to do with)
A photomovie by: Story: Daniele Giovannini Photographs: Damiano Cerrone Soundtrack: Luca Sammartin Voiceover: Andra Aaloe
Competition entry for Tallina Fotokuu
Untitled by Damiano Cerrone & Daniele Giovannini presented at Von Finster vernissage. Hildesheim 24 November 2011
Darkness and cold. Two fundamental elements that make the open air public space of a city just a place where to pass by when going from one place to another. Roads get crowded only for their primal function of connectivity, and people keep walking on these channels as the blind, rushing to get in the next bar and get warm. Squares are just a meeting points, an empty space to cross, venues for tourists. Our idea is about challenging the cold creating an open public space which can be used “at night” at cost-zero. We use simple lights not for illumination purposes but to smoothly define a “recreational space” where one can take a break during a walk and or stop there, experiencing the space and performing some activity in order to have fun and fighting cold. In Hildesheim we thought about the role of kids in a dark city as they are mostly warned to “don’t play out when darkness comes” and the night here comes at 5pm during the winter. Yet we tried to provide a fun-scape at the local recreational space of the primary school, encouraging kids to come out with their families to play at night, when led lights ribbons are shining and the city has the very different look. This way we may give the possibility for kids to experience the city in the time they are used to spend indoor and giving lights to the games they used to play.
Regardless our effort to stimulate the use of public space at night, at the opening of the vernissage we saw appearing a big yellow sign on the recreational space saying: ACHTUNG! KUNST (Watch out! art) and next another signs reminding that: Kids are forbidden to use the recreational space until the lights are on it. Still, more effort must be done.
Hildesheim and Twilights
A full experience Flâneur walk by Laura Heda at the Von Finstern vernissage in Hildesheim. 26/11/2011
Photographic portfolio realized for the master lecture:
SIGNS OF CENTRALITY, SYMPTOMS OF DISPERSION, towers in production of urban space Presented by Prof. Panu Lehtovuori at High-rise shuffle - 4th International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture Jyväskylä (FIN) 2011
CONTOUR Consolidated Ownership Negotiation Tool to Overcome Urban Restrictions Damiano Cerrone & Panu Lehtovuori
Designed as competition entry for “Street 2020, the case of Põhjaväil” Tallinn Architecture Biennale, September 2011. The work was also presented at Mind the gap! Europen Federation for Landscape Architecture regional congress. November 2011, Tallinn.
