BACTERIART, from invisible to visible
_Yakult Italia

Awarded as best work among the 30 proposals presented, F06.3 is an installation composed of a series of heterogeneous elements that coexist through a system of balance and interdependence. In the work technological and organic components are in close relationship: a projector, speakers and a video screen coexist with red cabbages, whose interior resembles the shape of the intestine, in a dialogue that expresses the desire to overturn the western-modern anthropic logic that defines the "non-human" of secondary importance.

Bacterial Identities was awarded the Doctor Shirota Award for the accurate scientific study in design, is a sculpture born from the idea of uniqueness in the combination of bacteria that define individuals as human beings. The work drew inspiration from the scientific discovery that emerged from a research by the University of Oregon in 2015, which showed that humans differ in their personal microbial cloud, a sort of "biological fingerprint" which all people have, and through which individual individuality can be distinguished.

The project Natura Humano s.d. / Humanum Homini s.d. was awarded the New Visions award for having interpreted in a more unexpected way the theme "from invisible to visible". The work is based on two Atlas, one speculating to the other, that meet in a kind of communication in which in the first section nature "writes" to the human, while in the second the human "writes" to the self. The project, whose final result is a series of postcards that simulates a journey to different places, whose protagonists are bacteria, represents a critique of anthropocentrism: People are so busy focusing on fulfilling their desires that they forget about the well-being of nature.