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WE ARE HIRING We are looking for new colleagues! If you would like to work with us on the creation of narrative environments, on merging the digital and physical worlds, on making installations with a sense and meaning using design and technology, on supporting institutions, museums and brands tell their story, this is the time to come forward. We have 3 newly opened positions and we are looking forward to hearing from you. PHYSICAL INTERACTION DESIGNER (MID) - A designer who thinks spatially and experientially - not just on screen. Someone who bridges the gap between creative vision and technical execution. MOTION DESIGNER - A visual thinker with a strong sense of rhythm, composition, and storytelling through motion. Someone who can translate ideas and concepts into engaging animated visuals across different media and formats. ARCHITECT/EXHIBITION DESIGNER (MID-SENIOR) - A visionary thinker, skilled in problem-solving and creating harmonious spaces that enhance user experience, passionate about innovative concepts, collaboration, and creating environments that evoke emotion and functionality. For the full job descriptions and application, check out our website, “jobs” section. Send your curriculum and portfolio to [email protected]! #Hiring #Dotdotdot

FOUR INSTALLATIONS, FOUR QUANTUM PHENOMENA Making complex principles tangible, understandable, sharable is one of the tasks that we like to take when we work with scientific institutions. And results are long-lasting. At Revolución Cuántica - Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid - visitors can interact directly with some of the most counterintuitive concepts in physics that we originally designed with INFN and exhibited at @museomuse in Trento. A rotary controller adjusts light intensity and frequency, making electrons escape from a metal surface: the photoelectric effect, as Einstein described it. Two screens reflect the visitor’s own body filtered as waves or particles, staging the dual nature of light. An LED matrix shows how a beam of light - or individual photons - passing through two slits produces an interference pattern that classical physics cannot explain. And a large projection responds to touch: shapes in continuous transformation collapse into a defined state the moment they are observed, a physical metaphor for quantum superposition. For all istallations, interaction is the primary means of understanding. And an emotional carrier of meaning. __ QUATTRO INSTALLAZIONI, QUATTRO FENOMENI QUANTISTICI Rendere principi complessi tangibili, comprensibili e condivisibili è uno dei compiti che assumiamo quando lavoriamo con istituzioni scientifiche. E i risultati durano nel tempo. A Revolución Cuántica - presso Espacio Fundación Telefónica, a Madrid - i visitatori possono interagire direttamente con alcuni dei concetti più controintuitivi della fisica che abbiamo originariamente progettato con INFN ed esposto al @museomuse di Trento. In tutte le installazioni, l’interazione è il principale strumento di comprensione. Ed è anche un veicolo di significato. @infn_insights @espacioftef @espacioftef photos by Javier Arias #InteractiveExhibition #ExhibitionDesign

OUR INSTALLATIONS DON’T RETIRE, THEY TRAVEL Four interactive works from Quanto / Quantum, the exhibition we designed with INFN for @museomuse in Trento, are now part of Revolución Cuántica at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, open from 7 May to 11 October 2026, free admission. The photoelectric effect, wave-particle duality, the double slit experiment, quantum superposition: concepts that are genuinely hard to explain, were made tangible through interaction. When design is used to turn technology into a tool for sharing understanding around scientific principles the work holds up across venues, contexts, and audiences. - INSTALLAZIONI CHE CONTINUANO IL VIAGGIO Quattro opere interattive di Quanto / Quantum, la mostra che abbiamo progettato con INFN per @museomuse di Trento in collaborazione, fanno ora parte di Revolución Cuántica presso Espacio Fundación Telefónica a Madrid, visitabile dal 7 maggio all’11 ottobre 2026 con ingresso gratuito. L’effetto fotoelettrico, la dualità onda-particella, l’esperimento della doppia fenditura, la sovrapposizione quantistica: concetti autenticamente complessi da spiegare, resi tangibili attraverso l’interazione. Quando il design diventa uno strumento per trasformare la tecnologia in condivisione e comprensione dei principi scientifici, il lavoro mantiene la propria forza attraversando luoghi, contesti e pubblici diversi. @infn_insights @espacioftef @espacioftef photos by Javier Arias #InteractiveExhibition #ExhibitionDesign

AT FIRST, THERE WAS THE ORGAN In Anima Mundi, sound is not a layer added onto the image but the work’s substance. Its source: a nineteenth-century organ — almost 4000 pipes, occupying an entire wall and the rooms behind it. The score was written by humans but no musician was there to play it: an algorithm was. Parametric software would send real-time instructions to the instrument, activating registers and timbres in response to what happens in the space — visitors’ movement, the time of day, environmental conditions. Those parameters colour the score differently each time — just as they shape what appears on the veils. Sound and vision governed by the same system, always. The structure is designed. But within those boundaries, everything could happen within the cosmogony that Anima Mundi was conjuring up at each visit. @geely.italia @fuorisalone @portaveneziadesigndistrict_ photos by @_lorenzo_palmieri #MDW26 #Fuorisalone2026

MORE THAN SITE SPECIFIC With Anima Mundi for @geely.italia , we wanted to push the concept of site-specific installation further. Not an installation that simply responds to a space but one that listens to it, reads it, translates it in real time. The experience was built from environmental data - the light of that day, the humidity of that moment, the atmospheric pressure of that hour - and from the movement of the people inside. Five large semi-transparent veils, arranged like Renaissance theatrical wings, each an allegory of a natural environment, shifted and evolved continuously. A score composed by human musicians was interpreted by a parametric algorithm — played through the hundreds of pipes of the room’s nineteenth-century organ, drawing out different timbres and registers with every passing moment. The result was a generative, participatory work in which space and installation became indistinct. Visitors were not an audience. They were live variables in a system that never repeated itself. The organ said it all: an ancient, analogue instrument — built to hold the multiplicity of the world’s voices — doing exactly that again, through a contemporary algorithm. A dialogue across centuries and languages, human and non-human, digital and acoustic. A Technological Renaissance in which different voices told a story of harmony together. Always different. Always unrepeatable. #MDW2026

THE ORGAN, THE VEILS, AND AMAZING SPACE. AND YOU. At the heart of Anima Mundi sits a 19th-century pipe organ — 4,000 pipes, no musician. Instead, a parametric algorithm reads the room in real time: how many people are moving through the space, the light outside, the atmospheric pressure of that exact hour. And it plays accordingly. The same data shapes what you see.  Five semi-transparent veils carry five ecosystems — ocean, underground, sky, wilderness, city — each one alive with movement driven by real environmental inputs. Wind patterns, seismic rhythms, tidal cycles. Nothing is pre-rendered. Everything is now. The score exists — written by human hands, with tension, resolution, a progression from minor to major. But the algorithm interprets it differently every time. Which register emerges, which timbre takes over, how the image shifts: all of it in flux, all of it coherent. # ANIMA MUNDI by Dotdotdot with Geely, a Milan Design Week 2026 installation that translates the Technological Renaissance of the brand into an immersive, participatory narrative. lstituto Italiano dei Ciechi — Via Vivaio 7, Milan | Porta Venezia Design District - Milan Design Week Open to the public: 19-26 April 2026 10am - 7pm @fuorisalone @portaveneziadesigndistrict_ photos by @_lorenzo_palmieri #MDW26 #PVDD26 #DESIGNISACT #fuorisalone2026

OPENS TODAY: ANIMA MUNDI — NOW, YOU ARE PART OF IT. Step inside Anima Mundi at Istituto Italiano dei Ciechi and you will feel the space shift. As the organ breathes — slowly, then fully — you begin to realise that the sound is reading you: your movement, your presence, the weight of how many bodies are in the room. The instruments generating the sound change, as the organ is played by a computer. The veils respond. The light transforms. It’s a performance with you, not just for you. Anima Mundi does not exist without the people inside it. Because it is the place itself — as a physical, geographic, and atmospheric entity — that plays. The technology does not replace the specificity of the space: it listens to it, reads it, and translates it. The organ becomes the symbol of the entire work: an ancient, analogue instrument, built to contain the multiplicity of the world’s voices — now doing exactly that through a contemporary algorithm. A dialogue across centuries and languages, where machine and place, human and non-human, digital and acoustic find an unexpected harmony. # ANIMA MUNDI by Dotdotdot for @geely.italia , a Milan Design Week 2026 installation that translates the brand’s Technological Renaissance into an immersive, participatory narrative. WHERE: Istituto Italiano dei Ciechi — Via Vivaio 7, Milan Porta Venezia Design District — Milan Design Week WHEN: Open to the public: 19–26 April 2026 10am - 7pm @fuorisalone @portaveneziadesigndistrict_ photos by @_lorenzo_palmieri #MDW26 #PVDD26 #DESIGNISACT fuorisalone2026

Luce, suono, materia. E tu, con la tua presenza. Anima Mundi è un universo che si attiva con chi lo attraversa: uno spazio che respira e genera una nuova dimensione visiva e sonora. Un’installazione di Dotdotdot con Geely per la Milan Design Week 2026. Fondazione Istituto dei Ciechi — Via Vivaio 7, Milano 19–26 aprile 2026 #MDW26 #PVDD26 #GeelyItalia #GeelyAuto

ANIMA MUNDI A VISIONARY IMPULSE Un’installazione immersiva per la Milan Design Week 2026, realizzata da Dotdotdot per Geely presso la Fondazione Istituto dei Ciechi, Porta Venezia Design District. Un battito profondo. Pulsante. Una vibrazione originaria che attraversa la materia e il tempo. Così si rivela Anima Mundi: non come un’idea da decifrare, ma come una presenza da attraversare, un respiro da condividere. Qui, la visione di “Rinascimento Tecnologico” di Geely prende forma in uno spazio vivo, sensibile, dove suono e movimento diventano linguaggio e guida. L’ambiente si trasforma in organismo, in strumento, in paesaggio percettivo che accoglie e risuona. Anima Mundi invita a entrare in una nuova cosmogonia esperienziale: un orizzonte in cui riconoscere le trame invisibili che legano ogni elemento del vivente. Distanze che si fanno relazione, differenze che diventano risonanza. In una coreografia di suoni e visioni, il confine tra umano e non umano si dissolve, lasciando emergere una dimensione più profonda: fatta di armonia, reciprocità e coesistenza. Fondazione Istituto dei Ciechi — Via Vivaio 7, Milano | Porta Venezia Design District – Milan Design Week Aperto al pubblico dal 19 al 26 aprile 2026 #MDW26 #PVDD26 #DESIGNISACT #GeelyItalia #GeelyAuto

BEYOND THE EXHIBITION What becomes of installations once the show ends? Sea Oasis is a research-driven project presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, where regenerative design, generative AI and marine ecology intersect. At its core are 3D-printed modules generated through parametric algorithms inspired by natural architectures created by ecosystem engineers such as coral reefs. These structures are not merely formal explorations: their geometries are carefully calibrated to maximise surface complexity, porosity and microhabitats. Cavities, textures and interstitial spaces are designed to slow water flow, trap nutrients and provide shelter—conditions that favour the settlement of microorganisms and the progressive colonisation by marine species. In this way, the modules act as catalysts for biodiversity, supporting the gradual formation of new underwater ecosystems. A project that doesn’t end with the exhibition—but begins again underwater. Photos by @demayda Concept & Art Direction: Dotdotdot Product design & Engineering: @opendotfoundation Technical enabler: @3dwasp @unipd @labiennale #BiennaleArchitettura2025 #GENS

DESIGNED FOR THE SEA Our Sea Oasis project was featured on Corriere della Sera in a story that warms our heart: what happens to installations after the show closes. Sea Oasis is a research-based design project presented at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale — at the intersection of regenerative design, generative AI and marine ecology. Its 3D-printed modules, generated through parametric algorithms inspired by natural architectures built by ecosystem engineers like coral reefs, are optimised to maximise surface complexity and encourage underwater colonisation and habitat formation. But the project was never conceived as an exhibition piece. From the very beginning, the modules were designed to be submerged in the Adriatic Sea after the Biennale — living on as artificial reefs, with their ecological impact scientifically monitored by the University of Padua. A project that lives on, and makes life thrive. Article by @cristinapiotti Photos by @demayda Concept & Art Direction: Dotdotdot Product design & Engineering: @opendotfoundation Technical enabler: @3dwasp @unipd @labiennale #BiennaleArchitettura2025 #GENS

Every year, the ADI Design Index highlights the projects that best represent the excellence of Italian design and production. Data Bugs is one of them. The installation was conceived to raise awareness around how biases emerge in AI systems, using design and meaningful storytelling to turn an abstract topic into a shared, physical experience. This recognition acknowledges our approach to using design to address contemporary issues, and our interaction design approach—where visitors engage with AI not through words, but by moving through space. From April 15 to June 4, the Data Bugs insects will be part of the Compasso d’Oro ADI exhibition at the ADI Design Museum. Discover a fragment of Data Bugs at the exhibition. #ADIDesignIndex #Dotdotdot #DataBugs #DesignCulture #CriticalDesign