“To write, to learn, to write, to convey to others the vision of your knowledge, your learning, your wisdom. To write fluently, effortlessly.” 

Abdus Salam

After the internship at Luca Nichetto Studio, in April 2016, I met Francesco Zardini (historian and illustrator) and Nicole Rodda (anthropologist), so we created WOO. This is the acronym for “Work Over and Over”, which is a part of the sentence that Abdus Salam pronounced after the announcement of his Nobel Prize win in 1979. Our aim is to divulge innovative, multidisciplinary culture, open to new possibilities and technologies.
The first prototype is a project that we introduced at the Trieste Mini Maker Faire 2016. It is a panel which is a didactical support and a display. The represented character is Abdus Salam, funder of ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics). The back of the figure contains a series of icons on which we wrote curious anecdotes that describe the life of this exceptional man.
It is integrated with another project which aim is to convey art to blind people. All the texts were translated to braille writing which accompanied a 3D printed relief of the watercolor drawing (which someone liked it to the point that it disappeared… and I printed more than one), the outline of the figure is 1.5mm thick, to make it easily readable. A laser cut world map highlights Abdus’ itinerary to Trieste.

Photos by Andrea Sanson