The winners of the ReAcademy Award have been announced on 12 june 2011 in Torino, during the final event of the "Ri.Nuovi: the second life of things" project organized by the Manamanà association (photos by Cosimo Maffione). The ReAcademy Award offers an internship for the construction of a prototype that has a good chance of being industrialized. The competition was aimed at developing the use of discarded objects in craft production. In order to transform the design idea into an operational project, ReAcademy provides its expertise and relationships.

The Movicentro project is designed by the Artz association in collaboration with the municipality of Bra. On saturday, from march to may 2011, the town of Bra is full of encounters with emerging and well known personalities whose work reflects innovation, creativity and technology (such as: Giuseppe Culicchia, the Baustelle, etc.). Some Cartona chairs, provided by Greencommerce.it, welcome the hosts.

Gastronome is a Russian magazine devoted to the world of food. An article about the LESEDIEDELTORCHIO project (available here) is published in the april 2011 issue.

Collaboration between Onfuton and LESEDIEDELTORCHIO continues at the Fuorisalone del Mobile 2011 (Milano, 12-17 april). “From the barrel to the glass” tasting will take place on 17 april at 18:00 in via Crema 14 (where Onfuton is based). Visitors will be given the chance to taste fine wines comfortably seated on the chairs made with the staves of the barrels. Moreover, Onfuton mentions KeoVelvet in its own blog. KeoVelvet is the elegant velvet by Keo made of 100% recycled PET from bottles; it perfectly fits into the fabric parts of LESEDIEDELTORCHIO pieces. Finally, the “Milano futuro” guide by the “Itinerari e luoghi” magazine publishes a file about Onfuton, accompanying it with some images of LESEDIEDELTORCHIO (the file is available here).

This is an example of the results of the application of the KeoHabitat® system. It is a renovation and energy efficiency upgrading of a building with a conventional structure. Energy class B+ has been reached with envelope improvements only.

The april issue of the Piemonte-Magazine magazine describes the PET recovery and transformation chain designed by Keo Srl in an article by Sabrina Roglio. In the article “Make money from waste - The long life of a bottle” the journalist interviews Marco Torchio, president of Keo, and Cristian Campagnaro, architect and professor at the Politecnico of Torino. She presents both the MrPET project, which is the system of rewarded separate collection of PET bottles, and the eko-logic Shop to Shop® project, which is the line of baskets and trolleys for supermarkets made of 100% recycled PET. The article is available here.