New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Reconnecting with nature

Email user
artigianisti@gmail.com

Basic information
Initiative title
Tracce, traces

Full initiative Title
Traces, landscape as a place of observation and storytelling

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
Traces designed to describe the behaviour of nature and man, meant to be erased by the wind and the sea and, as they are consumed, to explain their meaning.
Forms conceived to visualise the trajectory and power of the winds, the motion of the sea and the rise and fall of the waves.
Some of the projects concentrated on what people do on the beach, how they interact with, enjoy, play or communicate with the sand.
In collaboration with Unirsm - University of Design.

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Local

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Italy

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
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Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As an individual in partnership with other persons
Please provide the contact details for the intiative promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the intiative).
- First name: Massimo
  Last name: Barbierato
  Gender: Male
  Nationality: Italy
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: via Castello 3026
  Town: Venezia
  Postal code: 30122
  Country: Italy
  Direct Tel: +39 347 818 1131
  E-mail: massimo@massimobarbierato.com
  Website: https://www.massimobarbierato.com/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CkLgIregRHb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Social Media

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
This course transformed the beach in Rimini into an extended means of expression in which matter was invited to take forms that momentarily changed its morphology, turning it into a place of observation and storytelling.
Traces designed to describe the behaviour of nature and man, meant to be erased by the wind and the sea and, as they are consumed, to explain their meaning.
Forms conceived to visualise the trajectory and power of the winds, the motion of the sea and the rise and fall of the waves.
Some of the projects concentrated on what people do on the beach, how they interact with, enjoy, play or communicate with the sand.
The students were asked to design sticks, moulds or jigs to push, compress, dig or extrude the material as intended by the design.
The final results are nine analogical projects that can score the sand at the scale of the landscape.

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
nature

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
human

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
landscape

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
collaboration

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
ecology

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The project stems from the idea of interpreting a natural place as an environment where man can interact directly with the morphology of the place. These projects can be left on the beach and used by everyone. Their use will give information about the environment. They will explain the movement of the sea and the winds and how man can sit along the beach to observe the importance of nature. This project can also be used by the municipality to explain its territory. The projects to shape the sand have been made of wood or other ethical and renewable materials.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The project stems from the idea of interpreting a natural place as an environment where man can interact directly with the morphology of the place. The temporary traces produced through community gestures make the beach a path made up of graphic interventions with different utilities and suggestions.
The aesthetics of the interventions, on a large scale and not an end in itself, participate in identifying areas of the beach characterized by temporary interventions. Shapes designed to visualize the trajectory and power of the winds, the motion of the sea or the movement of the waves.
These types of interventions allow the community to enjoy the natural habitat in an empathic and gestural way.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
This project was born from the desire to make a process of knowledge common. The idea is all people walking along the beach can interact with the projects. They can make the shapes, observe them or use them. The city of Rimini has a system of walkways that allows people with physical disabilities to reach the beach and the sea. In this way the projects will also be accessible for them.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
The context of the project, being a public and commonly accessible place, refers to the characteristics of usability aimed at all. Like any natural context, man is spontaneously part of it and his intervention outlines its design features. The interventions planned on the beach were observed, interpreted and used by local passersby who were then asked for feedback on the development of the project.
The forecast for the next interventions is to broaden the size and scale of the gestural interventions so as to be able to involve a good part of the local community in a greater way.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
This project wants to focus its attention on the importance of a place along the Rimini beach. A specificity. Train to observe what surrounds us. The project has been presented to the city's municipality and will be able to be used by people during the summer period. This project can also be applied at regional and national level because it teaches to observe the importance of nature.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
Being a design project for the community and developed in a natural context such as that of the beach, the disciplines involved were those of architectural planning and research design.
Working with a malleable and changeable material such as sand, typical working realities of the place were listened to, such as beach businesses, port professionals and the like.
The importance of our project was also to offer new points of view and new ways of using natural places.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
The innovative nature of the initiative is determined by the collaboration of the municipality of a place, the city of Rimini, with a collective of designers who plan to make visible the importance and specificity of that place. For the first time, a series of designers don't plan to show their skill, but the importance of a place. It is important to make people understand that the designers of the future will have to deal with environmental design and not just think about objects for the home. The future must be collective, not personal.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
The interventions proposed with the Tracce project were developed with a language and a design methodology which, on the one hand, takes into account the peculiarities of the place but, on the other, adapts well to different contexts. This aspect allows the reproducibility of the project which can be proposed as an operation of social involvement and adaptable to different environments. In terms of methodology and design techniques, interaction with local activities becomes fundamental through which it is possible to develop participatory planning.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
The project comes from an experimental approach based on the senses. We have tried to train sight, hearing, smell and touch. We tried to understand how it was possible to visualize invisible data such as the speed of the wind, the strength of the sea. We stayed to observe the Rimini beach for many days. We developed design concepts, built them and finally tested them on the sand. Some of these projects have been modified and redeveloped. This approach, based on personal experience, has made it possible to understand environmental problems and make them visible.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
The project can represent a sort of case study in which interventions are carried out on the morphology of a specific place without waste and use of external material with respect to the context.
The temporariness of the project highlights a short life cycle but in perfect symbiosis with the beach habitat, where the sea constantly builds and modifies the landscape.

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
The idea concluded its first phase of implementation in September 2022. All projects have been built and tested. The objective of the second phase is to collaborate with the city of Rimini and make this initiative a communication system for a territory. The municipality could organize days in which locals or tourists use and try out these objects. That they make the tracks so they can understand a place and its nature.
Rimini and the neighboring cities could build a series of these projects so as to be able to create a system of knowledge, enhancement and communication of their natural wealth.

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
PDF
PDF
- pdf-1-15373.pdf
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
The project aims to train young designers to design for the environment and not just for man. This is a change of perspective with respect to the future. It is now essential to implement a change. The action that man has on the environment is impossible to sustain. From this point of view, this project aims to set an example for design schools and young designers and also make municipalities understand that enhancing their natural resources is the only way to progress.
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