The project seeks to create a space that invites authentic and meaningful interaction. In a fast-paced world where time feels scarce, we need places to pause, breathe, and reflect. What could be more human than simply looking up and watching the rolling clouds?
This installation offers a moment of stillness — a refuge where one can sit, gaze skyward, and embrace light and silence. Built entirely from reclaimed materials, it combines a sturdy base of recycled cardboard with a delicate canopy fashioned from discarded tissue paper. Each element tells a story of renewal, showing that what is cast aside can be reshaped into something both meaningful and beautiful.
We believe that touch brings ideas to life. Through touch, our thoughts, memories, and emotions are anchored in the physical world. Touch begets presence; material fades into memory. Our aim is to transform waste into value, and distraction into awareness. To build a space that does not harm, but heals — a quiet place where what was once discarded is reimagined as poetry.
That is why we must love what we create — unconditionally. When we connect our emotions to objects, we do not merely possess them; we allow them to help us remember. Objects can hold experiences, carrying emotion and serving as bridges between past and future.
Designer: Jonathan Bocca; Assistant designer: Giacomo Tosi; Gallery: Umano.
Jonathan Bocca (b. 1998) is a sculptural designer from Lucca, Tuscany. He graduated in Interior and Furniture Design at IED in Florence and later joined the Fabrica Research Centre in Treviso, where he studied and experimented with new materials for his sculptures and objects.
A defining feature of Bocca’s work is his use of recycled paper, sourced from the industrial waste of Lucca’s paper mills. After several days of processing, this compound becomes extremely durable, almost entirely organic, and highly malleable. Through this material, Bocca aims to raise awareness of how organic waste can be repurposed in everyday life. He believes that design and art should avoid non-recyclable materials, instead embracing sustainable alternatives. His ambition is to challenge conventional notions of design by starting with humble, discarded resources, reinterpreting them, and giving them new life and meaning.
The inspiration for his objects often emerges from dreams, which he transforms into reality by creating fantastical, dreamlike creatures.