// What is
UNPACKED Studio is a professional practice based in Rome (Italy) operating within the traditional fields of architecture and urban planning but also interested in exploring the contemporary through other creative approaches.
// What we do
UNPACKED Studio provides services in the fields of Design, Communication, Architecture, Urban Planning, Participatory Process, Innovative Education and Research. We have been committed for:
++ Community based processes and relational design
++ Art rituals in public space and interventions of tactic urbanism
++ Exhibition design for cultural promotion
++ Open education and cutting-edge workshops of basic design
++ Interaction design and media in space
++ Engaging social media (social media management, web development, UX/UI design)
++ Visual Identity and Communication Strategies
++ Architecture and Urban Planning for a Sustainable Living
// Mission
UNPACKED Studio is a common ground for speculations over cross-fertilizing projects involving several professionals from diverse disciplines. We like experimenting cutting-edge approaches between digital and analog.
// Who we are
UNPACKED Studio has been founded by Daniele Mancini and Irene Rinaldi, both architects and educators.
Daniele Mancini is Ph.D. in Theory of Architecture. He worked in France at Jakob+ MacFarlane Architects and in The Netherlands at Wiel Arets Architects. He is currently involved in teaching activities at IED Istituto Europeo di Design di Roma.
Irene Rinaldi worked in Spain at De La Puerta Architects and in Italy at Schiattarella Associati where participated to the design of Italian Pavillon for the Japan Expo 2005 in Aichi (Nagoya)
UNPACKED Studio started in January 2005 thanks to the Young Entrepreneurs European funds “Sviluppo Italia”.
UNPACKED Studio has been driving, among many others, the following projects:
Urban Fields. Aesthetic experiments for urban appropriation
https://blog.unpacked.it/category/urban-fields/
https://blog.unpacked.it/urban-fields-esperienze-estetiche-di-appropriazione-urbana/
http://vimeo.com/urbanfieldsroma
http://www.youtube.com/user/urbanfieldsroma
Open Workshops of Basic Design
https://postcardfromutopia.unpacked.it/category/openworkshops/
@openwks (on Instagram)
I Love Piani di Zona. Architecture and Urban Design Lab on Renovation and Soutainable Living
I ♥ PdZ Archives
Manifesto per una Educazione Indisciplinata
Manifesto incompleto per una educazione aperta e indisciplinata
La Scuola senza muri. Innovative Teaching and Learning strategies “out of the school”
La Scuola Senza Muri
Digigreen Festival dell’ecologia e dell’immaginario scientifico @ I.C. “Antonio Rosmini” di Roma
Digigreen Day 2022. Festival dell’ecologia e dell’immaginario digitale
Interactive Shopping Project @ IED Roma
Interactive shopping project Archives – UNPACKED Studio
Exhibition Design Lab
http://exhibitiondesignlab.unpacked.it/
http://vimeo.com/exhibitiondesignlab/videos
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Previously we’ve also took part in these projects
Ciccio Project: Interactive and Inflatable Platform
CICCIO Archives
http://www.unpacked.it/ciccioproject/
Romalab
http://romalab.wordpress.com/
Gran Touristas for Venice Biennale 2012
GranTouristas is the digital layer of the Italian Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale; a community of thousands of participants that aggregates around social media with the aim of sharing a common imaginary and to generate collective and collaborative creative intentions between digital and analog. In other words GranTouristas is a jouney in Italy meeting interesting people working on new architectures. GranTouristas is by Daniele Mancini, Stefano Mirti, Remo Richetti with the contribution of the GT community.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/GranTouristas/
https://www.facebook.com/GrandTourVeniceBiennale012/info
https://twitter.com/GranTouristas
http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/user/189710170/
http://statigr.am/grantouristas
ELSEWHERE
On tumblr.com you can spy into our visual collection of inspiring references
http://exhibitiondesignlab.tumblr.com/
You can find us also on:
Issuu
http://issuu.com/unpacked
Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/unpacked
Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/unpackedarchitects
Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/danielemancini74/presentations
Behance
https://www.behance.net/unpacked
CONTACT US
UNPACKED Studio
Daniele Mancini, Irene Rinaldi
[@] d.mancini@unpacked.it
[@] i.rinaldi@unpacked.it
