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QuarantaQuaranta is a multi-function modular project designed as a piece of furniture for MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma.

IED and the Museum have developed a partnership in order to allow students to project new concepts and visions.
The idea for the project came from a question: how can design improve the way we experience, inhabit, use and imagine the city?  The aim of the project was to give identity to a public space and make it accessible through innovative furniture solutions, which can be assembled in various configurations according to the user’s specific needs.

The result is a free, dynamic space, a point of reference for the activities of the Museum as well as a resource for the life of the city. QuarantaQuaranta goes from two to three dimensions with a simple gesture, and moves further to create a fourth dimension made of audiovisual-olfactory walls. This combination of gestures makes the museum experience unique, turning passive spatial elements into a source of stimuli and a vehicle for art. Its distinctive natural features become an expression of authenticity and simplicity.