Ivrea at the center of the world of innovation
And it is the designer Jan-Christoph Zoels who curates Easy as a kiss. Humanizing technology through design. Vision, story and impact of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, the first historical exhibition hosted and produced by the Circolo del Design which, through the collection of historical documents and the production of unpublished testimonies, reconstructs the life of one of the very first schools in the world in train professional figures dedicated to designing the interaction between humans and technologies, thus creating the first physical and digital archive dedicated to the institute.
A story that at the beginning of the millennium placed the Ivrea city at the center of the world map of innovation, combining experimental models of teaching and avant-garde design with the Olivetti culture, attracting talents from all over the world and founding a new training model whose ingredients were: a combination of humanistic and scientific skills, free and open experimentation, mutual exchange of knowledge and skills and collaboration with Italian and foreign companies. Here, projects that are still used and have become universal, such as Arduino and Processing, were born, and the discipline that made possible the services we use every day, such as car sharing, payments via apps and online service bookings, was born.