Drawing robot Scribit brings the world’s oldest painting on people’s walls and that’s only the beginning! Designed by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, the award-winning design and innovation firm led by MIT professor Carlo Ratti, Scribit is a write & erase robot that can turn any vertical surface into a low-refresh screen on which to display information from the web, user-generated content and art. Functioning as a “printer for walls”, Scribit ushers in a new way of presenting digital content and allows the user to instantly reconfigure and personalize a vertical plane. Following one of the most successful global crowdfunding campaigns of 2018, the device has been named one of the Best Inventions of the Year by Time magazine in late 2019.
At a time when a home is the only place to be and public exhibitions are inaccessible, the drawing robot Scribit brings humankind’s oldest painting to your wall, celebrating the25th anniversary of the discovery of the Chauvet Caves in France. The drawing -inspired to one of the evidence of Upper Paleolithic life - aims to make the restricted Cave accessible to all. The 25th anniversary of the discovery of the Chauvet Cave in Southern France coincides with the current worldwide lockdown that forces people to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing new ways of enjoying art and design in their leisure time. Scribit is designed to allow users to draw on their walls in the same way our ancestors did with their own tools tens of thousands of years ago: man marking walls to make his home. Using robotics to gain access to the cave paintings is a means of democratizing the rock art contained within it, making the paintings accessible to all.
The experience can be tested here.
In a time when our curiosity is flattened by boredom, a plethora of online trivialities, fastpaced scrolling and seconds-long attention spans, Scribit aims to reduce our screen time, acting as a low-refresh screen to provide an analog format for consuming digitally produced and shared content. The Chauvet Cave is the tenth installment of the Scribit Originals series, which aims to bring original artworks by the world’s leading artists, designers and public intellectuals to the Scribit platform in order to share knowledge, a story, cause or concept just as our prehistoric ancestors did through their Rock Art in the Chauvet Caves. This visual content for your wall will be featured in a curated online collection and available for download by the growing community of Scribit users.
The people behind the invention:
Scribit team: Carlo Ratti, Andrea Baldereschi (CMO), Andrea Bulgarelli (CTO), Ivan Lunardi (Senior Developer), Matteo Stoppa (Head of R & D), Danilo Ronchi (Developer), Riccardo Mereu (Junior R &D Firmware Developer), Gabriele Pertile (Junior UX/UI Designer), Marco Conte (Product Design Manager), Peter White (Scribit Originals), Svilena Sivova (PR and Business Development), Stela Karabina (Press Office), Federico Morando (Digital Content Specialist), Olaia Beltran (Social Media Manager), Zakaria Zarrouk (Technical Support Manager), Seyedalireza Khatoonabadi (Technical Associate).
We warmly thank Andrea Baldereschi, co-founder and CMO of Scribit, for the answers on our questions bellow regarding this device combining poetry with robotic intelligence- a tool about to stir the waters on curatorial, creative and educational design operations in the core of many different establishments and organizations around the globe.
All4design-design4All: Can the same technology be used to assist/facilitate people with disabilities-even quadriplegic people- to generate and illustrate their creative design ideas?
Andrea Baldereschi-CMO Scribit: The Scribit app and consequently Scribit can't be controlled through voice commands as of today. It's a feature that we are planning to develop in Q3/Q4 2020 as we strongly believe that creativity must be accessible to anyone. We really love the idea of being able to control Scribit with your voice: imagine how many interesting synergies might happen from multiple people collaborating in person or remotely on a piece of art!
A4D-D4A: How do you see the evolution of Scribit as a tool in other creative sectors apart from 2D painting?
A.B./CMO Scribit: Scribit has pushed the boundaries of drawing as traditionally conceived, by making art accessible to all. Moreover, at Scribit we have been promoting universal messages of equality, sustainability and spirituality in the last year by teaming up with several artists, public intellectuals, scientists and spiritual leaders to create the Scribit Originals, a series of authentic artworks to be streamed into people's homes.
A4D-D4A: Could eventually any private household adopt the technology and use Scribit for DIY interior solutions for instance or it is viewed mostly as a tool inside the functions of a public institution ex.a museum?
A.B./CMO Scribit: We aim, indeed, to promote an interactive use of Scribit not just as a tool for drawing but also as a way of experiencing new alternatives to screen addiction. Public offices, schools and institutions can use Scribit to transform any vertical surface into a canvas.
A4D-D4A: Which way can Scribit help in Art & Design education (schools and universities)?
A.B./CMO Scribit: We believe in technology and robotics as a vehicle for spreading universal messages and inclusive content instead of using technologies just as a passive hobby. For this reason, we constantly seek for new collaborations to help to spread powerful and positive messages.
EXPLORE SCRIBIT ORIGINALS!
Scribit Originals is a series of drawings inspired by well-known artists, poets and designers, which Scribit brings to people’s homes and everyday spaces. Each original constituting the selection has an underlying powerful message to convey, with the project culminating with the totality of works scheduled originallyto be exhibited at Milan Design Week in April 2020, (:cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic).
Take care, keep calm and enjoy Scribit!
A4D-D4A💟😃
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