FRANTOIO SOCIALE

Frantoio Sociale is a research project born in 2021 developed by Studio GISTO with hund.studio. Through the workshops and events, it analyzes and experiments with different methods and material transformation processes and promotes circular systems of retrieval and reuse of resources, in an area with a collaborative approach, to reflect on the current development system.

The project's aim is to reveal and promote alternative practices of transformation and re-circulation of materials through workshops, events and dialogues. The central and necessary tool for the development of the project is the transportable Crunchy Crusher machine, which can transform waste material into new raw material for a wide range of uses. Frantoio Social has taken part and cooperated in several experimental projects over the years: in 2021, in Venice, as part of the exhibition “Non-Extractive Architecture,” and in 2022, during Milan Design Week through workshops, exhibitions, talks and itinerant performances to explain demolition as a circular process to be exploited. For ALCOVA 2023 Frantoio Sociale presents itself to the public as a meeting space to discuss circularity, material flows, waste, raw materials, and much more. It is a cooperative working environment in which explores different techniques for transforming and recovering materials found on the ALCOVA worksite in order to create objects, prototypes, and new materials. In cooperation with Charly Blödel, BraceBrace, Hypereden, Benedetta Pompili Studio, Angelo Renna, Material Crush.