Can a family history be told through plants?

Via Buonarroti 41

Pietro Coda

Student

Pietro Coda

Academic staff

Mauro Vincenzo Bubbico Gianluca Camillini Elisabetta Rattalino

Course

Things that talk

Program

BA Major Design

Semester

2020/21 SS

“Via Buonarroti 41” is an editorial project made during the workshop with the photographer Luca Capuano that focuses on the history of my house and garden. The project is based on the collection of photos and historical documents of the house and my family, putting them in relation with the plants of the garden, creating associations of shape and color. At the end of the book I have collected testimonies about the history of the house and in general about life in Milan from 1900 to today.

A project made in the course

Things that talk

The course aims to provide tools and method for the graphic design of the image for publishing through field research and the creation of prototypes. Design is mainly intended as narrative, as the ability to reconstruct a logical narrative structure starting from a reasoned combination of acquired elements. We are submerged by an immense quantity of images that are increasingly strident, disharmonious, screamed, multiform and disrespectful; they multiply daily, impose themselves everywhere and take possession of our lives, condition our choices. When there is too much to see, we end up seeing nothing and paradoxically to see better we need to close our eyes.

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