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For over 10 years, Aedo has brought cultural projects to life. These projects are marked by a strong environmental vocation and social impact. Their realisation integrates different forms of cultural expression with contemporary languages and multimodal tools.
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Past projects:

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(Available in Italian language only)

Past projects:

Podcast FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano
(Available in Italian language only)

OJS Hosting

Fully managed and secure hosting solution for OJS (Open Journal Systems).

 

We also support other Public Knowledge Project applications: OMP and OPS.

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Smart Schooling

game–based learning experience | edutainment strategy

By creating a video game inspired by the biography and work of sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro works on educational innovation. Designed for second grade, Smart Schooling yields a journey between analogue and digital, an interactive educational experience.
(Available in Italian language only)

Il Gioco della

guerra

(The War Game)

civil theater choral action

The War Game is a choral civil theatre action themed on peace. It involves numerous local associations and cultural institutions active in the performing arts.
(Available in Italian language only)

AscoltaMI

(Listen to MI)

cultural podcast | urban storytelling

The project Listen to MI winds its way through the House Museums and connecting streets to tell the story of the city of Milan.
The multi-stage cultural tour spans two parallel itineraries. On the one hand, cultural itineraries are narrated with podcasts aimed at an English-speaking audience of future/potential tourists. On the other hand, a six-stage educational audio tour is devised for non-native Italian speakers living in the city.
(Available in Italian language only)

The MOON

VR experience

An immersive event of interaction between physical space and virtual worlds. Viewers are the narrative’s protagonists, surrounded by darkness and a starry sky overhead, thanks to the Zeiss IV projector of Milan’s Civico Planetario Ulrico Hoepli. They embark on a VR journey aboard Apollo 11 to experience the most exciting phases of the space mission.
(Available in Italian language only)

Opere narranti

(Storytelling artworks)

object biography | multimedia storytelling

Even a small work can tell a big story. After significant research, a thorough campaign to acquire multimedia materials, and extensive post-production work on two twentieth-century artworks, Aedo created and tested a narrative module for the biography of cultural heritage that will be used extensively in subsequent projects.
(Available in Italian language only)

MuSt

multimedia storytelling

At the Museo della Stampa and Stampa d’Arte in Lodi, one of Europe’s richest collections of printing machinery and typographic objects, comes to life through a multimedia narrative journey that explores the history of printing, techniques, tools and knowledge.
(Available in Italian language only)

That’s OPERA!

360° immersive experience

Aedo’s lead project, an action within the “CittàInCanto” project, was created to tell the world of opera from the point of view of those who contribute to its staging, namely the artists and backstage. By designing immersive sensitive environments inside and outside the theatres of the OperaLombardia circuit, new audiences approach opera music in a new way.
(Available in Italian language only)

L.E.N.T.O

territorial storytelling | slow tourism

Aedo creates two specific interventions for the L.E.N.T.O project, making the multimedia installations a permanent works and narrative tools for the collections of the Polironiano Civic Museum and the Madonnari Museum in the Province of Mantua.
(Available in Italian language only)

A Tavola

nel Tempo

(Dining through time)

edutainment software | multimedia education

With the educational project “A tavola nel tempo,” designed for the permanent collection of the Bagatti Valsecchi House Museum, Aedo is developing software that enables the visualisation of utensils and table elements from different eras through a touch-screen device.
(Available in Italian language only)

Nazario Sauro S-518

educational game | edutainment | paper toy

For Galata Open Air Museum in Genoa, Aedo creates a narrative paper toy inspired by the submarine Nazario Sauro S-518 to introduce young children to the living conditions of sailors aboard the historic submarine.
(Available in Italian language only)

Storie

a Bordo

(Stories aboard)

educational game | toy design

The iconic object of the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, becomes an ethical gadget, made in collaboration with the “Borseggi” tailoring shop at the prison of the city of Opera (Milan).
(Available in Italian language only)

Ora d’Arte

(Art hour)

educational workshop

An extended journey that crosses physical, mental and emotional boundaries. The Poldi Pezzoli House Museum brought reproductions of its works inside the Cesare Beccaria juvenile prison, which were transformed into contemporary collective works of art. An exchange of works and a mingling of languages
(Available in Italian language only)

MICRO – Musei Integrati delle Culture Rurali Originarie

(Integrated Museums of Original Rural Cultures)

diffuse ecomuseum | territorial narrative

Six demo-ethno-anthropological museums, an educational farmstead, the Historical Archives of Lodi, and eight municipalities in the Province of Lodi are being networked, thanks to a call for proposals “in an Expo key,” through stand-alone interactive systems and mobile devices, to create a multimedia diffuse ecomuseum of the territory’s material and intangible heritage identity.
(Available in Italian language only)

Lorenzo Storioni’s 1793 Piccolo Bracco violin

emotional diagnostics | scientific storytelling | conservation

Lorenzo Storioni’s 1793 “Piccolo” violin is the subject of a complex and structured intervention by the Violin Museum of Cremona, involving the acquisition, study, analysis, restoration, and public display of a fine “jewel” of Cremonese violin making.
(Available in Italian language only)

Lo stivale

in Tasca

(The boot in the pocket)

publishing | artist’s book | illustration

An artist’s book, made of serially numbered pieces, is selected at the national competition for young artists D.A.B – Design for Artshops and Bookshops and exhibited at MAXXI in Rome, before becoming an object of promotion of the Bel Paese for Italian museum bookshops.
(Available in Italian language only)

L’Opera

in Touch-screen

(Touch-screen Opera)

multimedia storytelling

Touch screen Opera: “The scores of the Archives of the ‘G. Nicolini ’ Conservatory of Piacenza unveil themselves to the public, bringing to life a concert of unpublished pieces, a temporary documentary exhibition and a permanent multimedia project.
(Available in Italian language only)

Guida Agriturist

(Agriturist Guide)

territorial promotion | gamification | rebranding

Through creativity and the enhancement of identity values linked to the geography of the Lombard territory, Aedo produces an innovative guide for Agriturist, the first trade organization for agritourism established in Italy.
(Available in Italian language only)

Agenda 2030

(2030 Agenda)

sustainable development in the territory | inclusion and climate justice

Telling and making the 2030 Agenda: Experiencing the cultures of sustainability is one of the most interesting challenges with which Aedo has engaged various educational institutions. The creative enterprise has focused on environmental sustainability and climate justice issues since its inception.
(Available in Italian language only)

Gonzagherie

territorial storytelling | digital communication | graphic design

The symbolic monuments of the history of the Gonzaga dynasty are transformed into the silhouette of an imaginary city and take shape as objects of digital craftsmanship, bearers of stories and territorial values.
(Available in Italian language only)

Mantova

con la “A”

territorial storytelling | Expo2015 | Mantua Italian Capital of Culture 2016

For EXPO2015, three symbolic places in the city of Mantua, the Ducal Palace, the Archaeological Museum and the Teresian Library, become a diffuse open-air museum, creating thematic and symbolic connections between works, stories and places, set up in the physical environments and designed for the multimedia environment.
(Available in Italian language only)

L’archivio racconta

(The archive tells)

podcast | archival storytelling

The Archive of the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro imagines a new mode of fruition and dissemination of the artist’s materials, the beating and living heart of the Foundation of the same name. The physical place and the digital environment interact to tell, with an online podcast, the stories of the preserved objects.
(Available in Italian language only)

What they say about us

Testimonial: Cariplo Factory

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“The project stems from the idea that the world of culture needs, once again, to have its role as a promoter of social values recognized.”

Cariplo Factory

Testimonial: Quotidiano Nazionale Il Giorno

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“Using languages and tools of contemporary cultural expression, Aedo shapes new narrative plots, creates multimedia paths, and designs multisensory experiences.”

Quotidiano nazionale Il Giorno

Testimonial: MUST Shop

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“The idea behind “Storie a Bordo” is to promote and generate new creative paths of cultural value, which enhance the beauty of manual labor and the value of social redemption.”

MUST Shop

Testimonial: Betwyll

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“Are they cantors? Are they prophets? They love art and create innovation. They are Aedo…”

Pierluigi Vaccaneo – Betwyll

Testimonial: Gazzetta di Mantova

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“… the project of Aedo is designed to be continually expanded, as if in the same place and with the same works it were possible to build a series of thematic exhibitions, the result of continuous historical and artistic research …”

Gazzetta di Mantova