THE 2022 PRIZE "DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION" - Submitted works

ANYONE CAN FLY
Any obstacle can become your strength, you just have to want it. Choose to run, to fly, to live every time life seems to want to stop you.

SERENA CHAN
We invited some guys from other disciplines to teach them to use photographic equipment and to compose the shot correctly, in order to create one or more significant photos concerning the school context seen through their eyes.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Spastic tetraparesis is a form of paralysis that simultaneously involves the voluntary muscles of all limbs and can cause partial or total loss of movement.
In this video we have filmed this boy who is affected by the upper limbs and  thanks to technology is...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Disability is no longer an obstacle if technology improves life and daily gestures. Eating, drinking, walking are things that are taken for granted for many people and very complicated for others. The evolution of technology and the production of prostheses h...

INCLUSION
With our art book, we would like to represent how technology has managed to smooth out many of the difficulties that people with disabilities have to face on a daily basis.
However, technology alone cannot achieve this: it is up to us all to help these people

TECHNOLOGY FOR THE FIVE SENSES
This project was developed for a terraced house.
The customer is a blind man, who loves art.
By the elimination of the edges and thanks to a pedotactile path to facilitate the movement for the house and the garden, the project perfectly reflects its needs.
Home aut...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The idea for this project was to create an explicative video about epilepsy.
More specifically, I planned to explain as accurately as I could what this mental disorder is and what are its consequences.
The final video will also be created through auditory a...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
We were the demonstration that unity is strength; you were the cause of my suffering. For my sake, now it's just me.

NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY
Statuesque body that depicts the man who finds the light of hope thanks to a bionic arm, therefore, the coexistence between nature and technology. 
Technique: pencil, crayons, acrylic, digital app, gif montage.

MY STORY
I work on my life. It's me who helps my father get up from the wheelchair. The wheels are square because they have no hope. The base is felt with cardboard silhouettes. It's a pop up book. Pulling to the side the silhouette rises from the chair.
Tecnique: Made with Giotto tempera pencils ...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
They elaborate a comic. The topic that I'm going to work on is about blindness. By documenting myself I realized that functional blindness the visual system perceives only light and not shapes. As for the technology, I chose the hearing aid for mobility in cr...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
An old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease wakes up and notices a red thread on the ground, she gets up, she takes the thread, she follows it and arrives in the kitchen where she puts a pot on the fire (which she will forget) and her daughter arrives run...

PHOBIA
You are about to witness a boy who wakes up in the middle of the night and experiences pathologies on his skin that should not be underestimated.
When we talk about "Disability" we immediately think of missing a limb or a physical disability, with this video instead you will be able to push...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The disease that I have chosen to represent for this project is depression. First of all, I would like to explain broadly what depression is: it is a psychiatric pathology that affects almost all ages, it does not only affect the emotional sphere and the mood...

ART FOR EVERYONE
The client is a disable person, lover of modern and contemporary art.
The heart of the building is the acquarium whitch make on two floors and hosts the panoramic lift.
The strong points are the shower, adapted to his needs, and the stained glass that allows him to enjoy the work...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The poster, inspired by Van Gogh's “Portrait of Dr. Gachet”, is called “NEVER DISCONNECTED”, because in a completely digitalized world like today's, I wanted to highlight another type of conection: the one essential for living. Today's technological innovatio...

The Geoffrey House
The house has been designed for Mr. Geoffrey, a man with motor disabilities, who cannot walk, , lover of ancien art. The client requested greater ease in moving around the building. To allow this, we have built a freight elevator with a platform in the hall, raised by a piston to...

YOU NEVER WALK ALONE
I wanted to represent on the right a guy whose symbolises what society defines and identifies as “normal”, while on the left we can see a group of people, that sometimes are marginalised, that accept the guy; almost like as the world is upside down and those who normally are le...

LUCIA YOU ARE NOT ALONE
We invited some guys from other disciplines to teach them to use photographic equipment and to compose the shot correctly, in order to create one or more significant photos concerning the school context seen through their eyes.

GREEN INNOVATION

In this drawing I represented an idea to move on the wheelchair easier and more eco-sustainable
through technology. This work represents an ecological and technological solution to help people with disabilities in the activities of daily life.
A solution that in its simplicity ...

OSWALD THE CYBERG RABBIT
 This work was inspired by a Walt Disney character, Oswald the Lucky, forerunner of the more famous Micky Mouse. My Oswald takes shape from its own name, “lucky”, as it could obtain all the protheses needed to overcome its missing parts.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
A sculpture that can be seen from all angles.
With the help of Braille and a strong imagination, those without sight will be able to see far beyond the simple work: they will be able to perceive it.
The metaphorized whole, being able to appreciate a sculptu...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
With Keith Haring's recognizable style, i wanted to represent, in addition to disabled and non-disabled people, the technological tools that make contacts and relationships possible as never before. The objects of everyday technology become icons of modernity...

THROUGH MY EYES
With this artistic work I wanted to represent the partial recovery of sight through bionic glasses, for blind people.
Tecnique: Ibis Paint, Power Director

GIRL IN BLACK AND WHITE 
In my project I had in mind to represent autism as a disability and as a subject to use a girl. In my photo we find the girl in the center who has her hands in her hair because she is indicated by several hands and means that she is being judged

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Until a few years ago, it was difficult to stay in touch, especially for people with disabilities, but thanks to new technologies, it has been possible to connect different worlds.
And never as in this moment of global pandemic has the relationship passed th...

TOUR
With Tourette's Syndrome, we mean a neurological disorder characterized by multiple and repeated tics. The idea is to exhibit, (on canvas) a drawing, held in hand, by a human subject. The image of the drawing represents the face of a stylized human figure, with around symbolized all the signs ...

FLESH MADE OF IRON
The work represents the harmony and heat of a female body in all its forms. There is a clear contrast between the warm colors of the woman and the cold ones of the prosthesis that replaces part of the arm. Despite this contrast, the artificial limb manages to complete her perfect...

BIONIC HANDIn this graphic elaborate I wanted to represent on a sheet then made on the computer, it represents how technology is moving forward for example: a bionic hand, implantable based on use as if they were real hands, is used to give people proprioceptive sensations as well, or the ability to...

THE CONQUEST OF REALITY
I wanted to represent the ability of man to overcome an obstacle thanks to technological innovation.
Technique: pencil, acrylic, crayons, digital app, gif editing.

SILVER ARM
Everything is more comfortable when you have an extendable arm! You can eat your pizza without having to get up, and meanwhile you can enjoy your favorite show. With technology we are able to make up for any shortcomings.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY_Client with hearing impairment
The project was developed starting from the restauration of a pre-existing terraced house. The house had to adapted to the client’s disability, being hearing impaired, so it was asking for the application of elements and structure that make e...

THE CHAMPION
I wanted to represent how with technology in sport it was possible to get rid of their own difficulty.
Technique: oil pastels, crayons, pencil, cardboard, digital apps, gif editing.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
 
I made this work thinking about the disabilities and improvements that technology can and has already brought to the lives of people with problems.
I represented a girl who, wearing an augmented reality helmet, enters a new and free world, the girl is the...

CONNECTION…SUPERHERO
Art mends tears, cancels voids, brings distances closer
Technique: Graphic Illustration

PERSONALITY DISORDERS
The theme that I will bring will be psychic disorders, in particular those of the personality.
Mental disorders are for me even worse than a physical illness, because if you have a clear mind but you don't have a body you can still go on, but if you have the body without havi...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The evidences in this artwork are many, the Universe and the intention of global inclusion, the real progress in front of  men’s eyes.
This is the story of our life, for the inclusion of all of us. 
Technique:  tempera and white stucco with collage of colou...

BEYOND THE FINITE
In this drawing I wanted to rappresent tecnological  glasses that allow us to see beyond human possibility and understanding.
Technique: Handmade with charcoal pencils on rough sheet, Cartoon Photo.

INCLUSIVE SIGN_T 03 CLASSROOM (3D CUTTER)
This inclusive sign for the classroom T 03 aims at guaranteeing full accessibility to foreign students and those who are visually/cognitively impaired or have communication difficulties. The sign includes the name of the classroom which is in alphabetical w...

RECONNECTION
Our work is a necklace that represents some interrupted circuits, reconnected, in the center, by a hand supporting an eye; the hand embodies the technological innovation which, thanks to the research and development of important computer aids, is now able to restore that "missing link"...

NOISEDeafness cannot be solved, it must be overcome. Benny lives on vibrations, noises, at the rhythm of her heartbeat.  She is in the first year of the high school, it’s difficult for her to integrate. Dancing is her dream. A talent’s school is the chance to try a community technology, where the...

THE SMALL HOUSES OF THE SCULPTORS
In our school there are many students with different difficulties, who find history of sculpture not very engaging. Taking advantage of their passion for social networks, we created “the small houses of sculptors”: in each house there is a QR code linked, on an Ins...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Lorenzo is typing and trying to clean up his hands from the light blue, simbol of autism as to hide something that is wrong. His classmates with their light blue coloured hands who on the contrary, understands his Beauty continue writing with him. An act whic...

EVOLUTION IS A SIGN OF INCLUSION

Evolution is a sign of inclusion is an art installation with multiple solutions, a praise to the inexorable march of technological progress. Disability is accepted by the adolescent, who freely lives his own life through several phases: from the saddest pose he ri...

GAMES OF COLOURS AND COMPLEMENTARITY
The symbolic color of schizophrenia is blue, this color will be present in the background, and orange (complementary color of blue) will be used in clothing or in some detail of the face.

TECHNOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION
Thanks to the use of technology you can have a relationship with society.
Technique: pencil, crayons, acrylic, digital app, gif montage

DREAM BODY
The work represents a girl with mechanical parts, depicted as if it were the cover of a magazine. In reality the meaning is in the title "Dream body" it explains that the bodies of the future, with mechanical parts that replace the non-functional ones, it will no longer be a problem but ...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
In this last period we are fighting every day more and more against COVID-19.I would like to raise awareness of this topic through shots that represent how fragile and subtle our life is, just like a thread, and how easy it is to detach it, even with a simple...

SIMPLY NICCOLÒ
We invited some guys from other disciplines to teach them to use photographic equipment and to compose the shot correctly, in order to create one or more significant photos concerning the school context seen through their eyes.

LOVE YOURSELF
The theme is anorexia, with this video we want to make people understand that with technology we can overcome this disorder, and also with the help of friendship. Through an instagram story she manages to make the protagonist understand that she must not feel different from the others...

THE GLOVE
My work give an alternative idea or a solution for those who suffer from paralysis or have a lack of certain parts of the limb itself
So through technology and through electro-magnetic pulses it will be possible to move the hand without problems like a “glove” if it is paralyzed or as a ...

GETTING RID OF A BURDEN
The main subject is a mute woman who, through a futuristic device, manages to speak and finally say everything she always wanted to say.
Photoshop, acrylics and colored pencils on paper and Ibis paintx (digital app).

UNSTITCHED MOUTH

Half-length woman (Raphael's "Veiled" reinterpretation) with a white face and rosy lips, at first unable to utter a word, then "unstitched" by the intervention of technological innovation.
TECHNIQUES: pencil, acrylic colors, digital application (for Photoshop) and digital applic...

PRINCESS GIULIA
We invited some guys from other disciplines to teach them to use photographic equipment and to compose the shot correctly, in order to create one or more significant photos concerning the school context seen through their eyes.

HOW TO REMEMBER
With this artistic work I wanted to represent a girl who, thanks to the camera, manages to overcome her discomfort due to a disease that does not allow her to keep Memories.
Tecnique: Lartbook, Power Director

VOCAL SYNTHESIZER
The instrument that the girl has in her head is a voice synthesizer, she writes on a device what she wants to say and the voice synthesizer says it for her. The tool is useful in case the subject has communication problems
Technique; digital graphics

CIP

The piece consist of a surgical intervention to be carried out in favor of people who are unable to speak.
It will be necessary to connect an external memory “cip” connected to the cerebral neurological system.
The thought created by the brain will send the information to the cip, it’s conn...

AFRORA' FASHION
We invited some guys from other disciplines to teach them to use photographic equipment and to compose the shot correctly, in order to create one or more significant photos concerning the school context seen through their eyes.

BEING IS NOT A CHOICE

Image that represents the man from behind with a disability who manages to overcome this discomfort through the use of a bionic arm that helps him choose which physical "characteristic" to choose, distinguishing him from other individuals.
Technique: Pencil, acrylic, silver...

I AM PROUD OF BEING MYSELF
In this drawing I wanted to represent a girl without a limb, technology has allowed her to continue living.
Technique: Graphic tablet, Ibis Paint

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
With this photograph I want to represent the way a visually impaired person needs to get extremely close, or use magnifying instruments, to observe, for example, a detail of a flower.

SPORT AND DISABILITY
The graphic-pictorial elaborate presented deals with the theme of sport and inclusion through 6 illustrations performed with the watercolor technique on cardboard. The subjects depicted are people with motor disabilities who play sports, even at a competitive level.

ACCEPTANCE 
The artwork wants to communicate the acceptance of a people, who has lost a part of himself that is replaced by a machine, putting his humanity into question.
Man looks up, towards the light of reason, while his counterpart looks at his own new limb, understanding that the key to accep...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Technological innovations can be a hook, a real "catch", to be able to lift oneself from the inequalities and physical limitations of disability. True inclusion can therefore use technology as a means of emancipation.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The disability that I want to address is deaf-mutism, a disability that in a certain sense alienates those who are subject to it from the world.
In our school I had the opportunity to meet a school worker with this disability, I tried to get to know him bett...

ONE HEART, ONE NUMBER
For a diabetic like me, blood is often associated by a single number, which often affects my health. With this shot I wanted to immortalize the concept of diabetes, exasperating it through black and white.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The idea was to make a video on multiple personality disorder, where at first we see this girl confronting the bully who insulted her, we see her savior and her dear friend who always supports her. In reality, these people are her personalities with whom she ...

JOINTS
The digital graphic elaborate shows some prosthesis-joints that can help a disabled person.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Technology provides extraordinary aids that allow people with disabilities to experience a wonderful normalcy

NATURE MEETS TECHNOLOGY

The subjects depicted are two arms, a mechanical one and a “normal” one that meet. Some people with impaired mobility often feel different, and it’s out job to make them feel accepted.
Tools: Ibis Paint X (digital application), gouache and pencils on paper, Videostar (dig...

TECHNOLOGY IS STRENGTH
The drawing shows how the technology can be the strength of who is less lucky.

SPECIAL MODEL
I chose to design a model because in my opinion, we need to break down all the barriers and canons that society imposes

GACHA OPEN CITY
The setting scene with an anime-style character, created with Gatcha life's app, is used to represent the  theme of overcoming barriers: a city with three videogames scenes symbolises the prediction of a more enjoyable-living future, thanks to new technologies and artificial intelli...

THE LIGHT OF MY EYES
In my project I will talk about a personal fact that happened to me when I was only six years old.
When I was six, my family realized I had a squint in my left eye.  
Squint is a condition in which the eyes are misaligned and not oriented in the same direction. While one eye ...

TACTILE IMAGE
Blind people can see the images thanks to the technologic machines which give a tactile shape to the figures. 
 
Technique: Acrylic paint and sanguine.

RUN FORREST RUN
The work is characterized by the famous quote "Run, Forrest, run!”, based on the movie Forrest Gump and it is also composed by a face of one of the most famous para-lympics runners, Yohansson Nascimento. The composition foresees the writing placed on the left side of the sheet and o...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
I decided to focus on blindness, as I believe it is a condition almost taken for granted nowadays.
Today's technology is useful for people affected by this condition thanks to the voice assistants of smartphones or the increasingly widespread home automation...

REVELATION OF BEAUTY
Half-length portrait of a girl whose beauty is revealed thanks to technological innovation. 
 Technique: pencil, pastels, acrylic, gold leaf, digital app, gif montage

LIKE A PHOENIX
She started dancing and having fun again after the operation on her lower and upper left limb, Reborn as Phoenix.
 
Technique: As materials I used colored pencils, watercolor pencils, pantone ink pens and as digital material piscat

THE ALTRUISM OF A SHOT
We invited some guys from other disciplines to teach them to use photographic equipment and to compose the shot correctly, in order to create one or more significant photos concerning the school context seen through their eyes.

CLIMBING TOWARDS THE GOAL
 I wanted to represent those who do not have the possibility of reaching goals due to theri disability and thanks to technological innovation they manage to reach high peaks.
Techniques: pencils, black indelible marker, digital app, editing.

THE FREQUENCY OF MEMORIES
Alzheimer's disease shuts down the mind, initially with simple memory lapses, up to the total loss of the individual who suffers from it.
The video 'The frequency of memories', represents the daily life of a person victim of this disease: post-its have been stuck around t...

THE COLOUR OF A GLANCE
The woman represented in the work is visually impaired and thanks to an electronic device called ESight she is able to see a colorful world in all respects. For the first time, experience an emotion never felt before. The heart starts beating faster and lights up like her smi...

I AM THE FUTURE 
I decided to play with the augmented characteristics of the Batman hero, and the chances  of augmenting our possibilities thanks to technology, and in this particular case a wheel-chair. The typical Batman’s sentence “I am Revenge, I am the Night, I am Batman” has been revisited, a...

STENDHAL SYNDROME
Stendhal syndrome causes hallucinations, in subjects placed in front of works of art of extraordinary beauty, they even claim to feel "come out" of their body while they are enchanted and entranced by what they observe.

FREEDOM AND LIFE ARE EARNED BY THOSE ALONE WHO CONQUER THEM EACH DAY ANEW
With my drawing I wanted to represent the possibility of freeing ourselves from someone or something that has always held us back.
 
Materials: crayons, acrylic colors, watercolors, digital app, gif montage.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Imagine having to live without being able to use your hands, but with a very strong passion for the world of technology ...

YOU ARE YOUR ONLY LIMIT
A girl who runs a marathon, even if she has a prosthetic, leg advances to raise awareness among the people who are watching the race the same.
She runs because nothing can stop her from making her dreams come true.

SECOND CHANCE
I chose the disability of blindness because I have always esteemed these people who despite everything manage to live, have adapted to the world.
I can imagine that it is not nice to live without seeing or seeing little of anything, so I tried to make a dream come true.
To be able t...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
It is like being trapped, locked up in a bubble, immersed in darkness but through a prosthesis you can improve and have the opportunity to do many things and sometimes help others.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Borderline Disorder is a personality and mind disorder that focuses on the sociability of the person affected and altered.  My goal is that through the use of a long exposure I am able to make the viewer understand how these people react to external stimuli a...

BLINDNESS
Knowing what colors are, recognizing a place, opening the front door and seeing familiar spaces and feeling safe, cooking, washing, using the telephone. These things are very obvious to us, but for people blind from birth or who have suffered trauma these things matter a lot. Imagine your...

SHOES AS PROSTHESES
The shoe displayed by me allows a woman to walk in high heels and then it gives the woman the opportunity to feel more feminine.

SORORIS VOX
Deafness is a problem which makes life difficult for more than 80 million people.
Luckily, nowadays there are technologies that allow deaf to hear for the first time, arousing in them unrepeatable emotions.
This short film is about how difficult it is to book a hearing test of this ge...

BIPOLARISM
There are three photos, each representing the three phases of bipolarism. They are distinguished by the beam created by the movement of the person. The photo with more movement represents the maniacal phase, the second is the normal phase, in fact the movement is less and similar to that...

BEYOND THE SENSES
The figure of a girl with a shiny leg prosthesis is shot in a scene that represents the exact moment of the push-up, the action one, that immerses her "in the blue of life" and let her overcome the barriers  represented by the city below.
Willpower is the main means to "go beyond...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The goal is to represent a blind boy and a deaf boy who together make one person and help each other. This means that we must always help everyone, even a blind person and a deaf person together can be one person.

TECHNOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS
Thanks to the help of technology, it is possible to break the patterns of the distance that real life brings and it is possible to develop a relationship even on screens.
Technique: oil pastels, pastels, pencil and acrylic, digital app, gif montage

A BIONIC LOOK
In this project I wanted to represent a blind girl who sees through a bionic eye, none of this is still possible even if I trust that in the future it will become.
With this design I also wanted to convey the message that anything is possible with the right knowledge.

SOMETIMES LITTLE IS SUFFICIENT TO UNDERSTAND
Is there a correlation between disability, technology and happiness? Perhaps happiness is found only when technology meets disability to improve the quality of life.

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The "disability" I am talking about is anorexia; it is a discomfort where the person involved refuses to feed for various reasons.
Anorexia is a very common disorder among young people, because with the development of technology and social media it has becom...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
In this project I would like to talk about mental disability or rather derealization. This disorder refers to the feeling of unreality, of detachment from the world. The person can feel as if he is in the fog, or as if there is a veil or a wall. glass between...

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Equality in the society means same opportunities for all, becoming with children.
The current techniques allow to remove the obstacle for the real inclusion of children with disabilities, if we want.

SCHIZOPHRENIA
My idea consists of a series of shots that represent schizophrenia and what people who suffer from it feel.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that dissociates the individual's personality and also affects various fundamental psychic activities, such as: delirium, causes hallucination...

THE BODY MADE OF IRON
Frida's body, damaged by an accident, regains the light of hope thanks to an iron armor that allows her to move again.
 
Technique: pencil, acrylic, pastels, Picsart digital app and gif editing via CapCut.

INNER STRENGTH 
The work shows a disabled martial arts athlete, portrayed while performing a form.
For every individual, sport is a possible source of inner improvement. (Pierre De Coubertin).
Heroes are created at the Olympics, heroes arrive at the Paralympics (Ambra Sabatini).
Technique: sodiu...

PARANOIA
The story is not just about a girl, but about all teenagers full of paranoia and thoughts about themselves that often do not correspond to reality.
Paranoia born of insecurities but mainly from others, from the fear of a judgment and of not being up to par and, often, the only way to sile...

AUTISM
Autism in children is a very delicate issue that has to be treated with tact. People often think that being autistic limits a person in everything, but it is not so and with this project  I want to prove it.
I will focus on the order that an autistic child creates in front of himself, what ...

BIPOLARISM
Bipolarism is a mood disorder, alternating phases of mood changes, leading to suicide. Pharmacotherapy serves to reduce the frequency of symptoms of the disorder, the treatment involves the administration of antidepressant drugs. I would like to represent my photos with moments of mood s...

TO EXPRESS ONESELF THROUGH ART
I represented through a statuary group technology’s innovation that allows the character to surpass physical rigidity, represented by the statue itself, and communicate with the external world through painting, form of expression.
 
Used technics: pencils, acrylic p...

oneSOUL
The work is intended as a reflection on the importance of the fusion between souls and body, which if needed can be helped by technology.
The title is a word play between souls, the natural and the artificial one, and Souls, in the style which recalls that of Japanese souls.
Finally the w...