PERISCOPE | Collective

PERISCOPE | Spatial Design | HUB

The living network of researchers, designers, artists and thinkers — including young talents in incubation — who form the ad hoc teams and continuously enrich the Hub with diverse perspectives and shared intelligence.

PERISCOPE | Collective is the human and relational core of the Hub. This cluster is dedicated to enhancing the most experimental, speculative, experiential and performative dimensions of spatial design. It brings together an international community of creative minds who operate at the intersection between design, art, science and critical thinking.

Through this network, PERISCOPE explores innovative forms of collaboration that deliberately blur the boundaries between research, artistic practice and spatial intervention. The activities favour one-off projects, site-specific interventions, and hybrid formats developed in synergy with major cultural contexts, such as exhibitions, biennials, triennials, artist residencies, and international competitions.

In PERISCOPE | Collective, ideas are not only discussed but actively tested through performative actions, immersive experiences and temporary spatial configurations. Young talents in incubation play a key role, contributing fresh perspectives while gaining visibility within a vibrant, transdisciplinary ecosystem. This collective intelligence becomes the generative force behind unique projects that challenge conventional spatial norms and open new horizons for the future of living.

OUVERTURE 2017 – Cronotopi design | Timespace – Stefano Mirti

OUVERTURE 2017 – Cronotopi design | Timespace – Andrea Branzi

OUVERTURE 2017 – Cronotopi design | Timespace – Medhat Shafik

OUVERTURE 2017 – Cronotopi design | Timespace – Alessandro Papetti

OUVERTURE 2018

Next stop: STOP! Design Reflections on the Lost Interval.

Workshop NATURE&ARTIFICE 2021

The Interdisciplinary Workshop 2021 activated a transversal theoretical and practical lens, bridging the natural and artificial dimensions of contemporary and future realities, with the aim of identifying the motivations and goals for designing the spaces of tomorrow.

Museo della Collezione ADI _ Contest 2014 *

* Collective: Giovanna Piccinno, Francesca Murialdo, Cristina Foglia, Alessandro Piva, Alice Zingales

Milano, Piazza Castello _ Contest 2016 *

* CODICE SCRITTO | Collective_ Architects and designers: Giovanna Piccinno, Alessandro Villa, Daniele Mazzinghi, Alice Zingales (It) + Artist: Gordon Young (Public art, UK)

FOODIES‘ CHALLANGE_ Contest 2015 *

* SWEET URBAN_SCAPE | Collective: Giovanna Piccinno (Designer), Cristina Zambonini (Creative network curator), Massimo Pica (Pastry chef), Claudio Scaccini (Photographer), 2015

Foodies’ Challenge – Declaration of Intent
“In 2015, during Expo Milano, we presented FOODIES’ Challenge, a biennial competition for designing food in collaboration with renowned chefs, designers, and artists. The award celebrates the design of the ephemeral — the plate itself”.

SWEET_SCAPE | Cake

SWEET_SCAPE | SCake

AA.VV. AutoriVariStudio*

* Collective: Ico Migliore, Giovanna Piccinno, Mara Servetto, Giancarlo Baroni | 1990 -1996 + Exhibition sets, 1996 >

Exploration and self-production of fibreglass artefacts for unique, one-off installations and spatial setups, together with the development of small-scale objects.

Collezione Unica_ GIO +PIC

COLLEZIONE UNICA | GIO+PIC represents one of the most personal and experimental aspects of the PERISCOPE journey — the one closest to Giovanna Piccinno’s expressive freedom. It is the possibility of connecting memory and present, history and future, through discreet, often luminous, crafted presences destined to inhabit lived spaces. These objects are born from a careful search for rare or special components — pieces from the past, design history, and industrial production — and take shape in the quiet of her own atelier, before finding their place in the homes and working spaces of friends and clients. Drawings, sketches, and graphic boards also constitute the narrative of the collection and of her own design research path.

ENTITA’ DOMESTICHE / Domestic entities | Collection