T SPOON is the idea of a small device, a sensible tool that crosses urban territories discover ways and forms of the contemporary way of living. Leaving the definitions and disciplinary restrictions, T SPOON accepts the risk to explore those grey, hybrid, and uncertain territories that are typical of the contemporary city, researching new practices of transformation for the urban space.
T SPOON operates between the intersection of three elements.
City is meant not only as the relation between spaces, within their dimension and function, but mainly as a system of relations, activities and possibilities: a living organism, dynamic, unpredictable and full of spontaneous processes.
Landscape, that leaves it’s traditional role of decoration, ornament, of productive soil or of natural beauty, becomes the lens throughout we read, interpret and structure the contemporary city.
Infrastructure as the instant expression of urban landscape, the vital net of the city. Not anymore a hidden texture of technical and functional elements, but a new hybrid form of natural and technological public space.
City is landscape, landscape is infrastructure, infrastructure is city: the circle closes up, urbanity is ready for a new level of development. Architecture becomes Environment.
T SPOON is a firm based in Rome since 2004 that develops projects, exhibitions and editorial initiatives.
The aim, through a research that goes “from the teaspoon to the city”, is to approach spatial and human relations, defining multiple and simultaneous study fields, and to act as a catalyst of the transformation processes of human-space systems at every level of complexity.
T SPOON is a laboratory that operates in a continuous dialectic relationship within itself and with the outside, looking for a dynamic balance between the definition of our own identity and the transformation of the external realities.
PARTNERS
Nina Artioli
Paola Fusco
Alessandra Glorialanza
Davide Sacconi
Eliana Saracino