Our “cousins” from INTERNI – the design magazine of the Mondadori Media group – present a special issue on November 7th at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art that tells the story of Rome as you have never seen it. “Rome, eternal change”: a title that summarizes the continuous metamorphosis of the Eternal City.
The monographic issue explores the Capital through architecture, design, art and society. We start with the futuristic vision of Stefano Boeri’s Roma050 Laboratory, which imagines the city in 2050. Then a journey into archeology that dialogues with the contemporary: from the Colosseum Park to the new Augusto Imperatore square, from the Colosseum metro to the Forof nei Fori project.
Ample space for the studies of the protagonists of contemporary Roman architecture: Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Alvisi Kirimoto, Labics, IT’S, Andrea D’Antrassi/MAD, Westway Architects. And again: the architecture of diplomacy (from the FAO to the Mosque of Rome), the historical and contemporary interiors, the collecting of Roberto D’Agostino and Franco Debenedetti.
On 7 November the magazine will also be distributed with Il Messaggero in all Roman newsstands.
Fluid architecture. But the real protagonist of the presentation event will be TAM TAM, the installation by the Alvisi Kirimoto studio which challenges the traditional concept of architecture. A temple of white columns made of recycled plastic that transforms with the interaction of visitors. The columns, 5 meters high in a 6×6 meter space, create different environments depending on how the public interacts with them.
The principle is revolutionary: architecture becomes fluid, participatory. No longer a static space but a living organism that reacts to human presence. One moment it is a place of personal meditation, the next it becomes a space for collective sharing. The work challenges Vitruvian principles by introducing the concept of dynamic flexibility.
Created with Corepla (Consortium for plastic recycling) and presented at the FuoriSalone in Milan, the installation will remain in the GNAMC courtyard until 8 December. The inauguration will be attended by undersecretary Lucia Borgonzoni, director Renata Cristina Mazzantini, as well as Stefano Boeri, Domitilla Dardi, Giovanni Cassuti of Corepla and Roberto D’Agostino.
As Gilda Bojardi, director of INTERNI, explains, Rome “reveals a constantly changing face: a place where archeology and contemporaneity intertwine”. The city is no longer just memory, but a laboratory open to international contamination.
