Spaghetti.obj

Without any doubt "Spaghetti" is the most well-known shape of pasta worldwide; a cylindrical strand of semolina and water dough. They appeared relatively late, in 1836, due to industrial inventions because they could be extruded only by mechanical press.

Spaghetti.obj is one of the pieces of the limited edition collection "Pasta Shootah" in 100 pieces. A decorative element that resembles the intricacy of Spaghetti when they are all rolled together. Thanks to the digital world, I was able to extrude 4 Spaghetti simultaneously without gravity, resulting in this complex and striking object brought to life together with supports of the printing media. It is entirely made in 3D printing with Silver PLA filament.
The object is the result of an innovative digital methodology that results in a whole new way of understanding 3D modelling and digital production.
In particular, for the digital creation of this element 350 frames of simulation were required to be digitally cut and printed with a 0.6mm nozzle.

In the global imagination, Italy means pasta and vice versa. The cliché, captured in “Mangiapasta” and other epithets (not always complimentary), transforms the country’s eating habits into the main characteristic of the people, fueling the stereotype of Italian identity. Not all Italians accepted this fate: in 1930, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti declared in the Manifesto of Futurist Cooking that it was time to abolish pasta as a symbol of the nation; an absurd gastronomic religion that made people lazy and heavy and unprepared for an increasingly mobile and fast-paced life. Nevertheless, nothing has changed.
Food culture has stagnated in Italy, a country that freezes tradition through conservation and idealizes the normal. If pasta is a symbol of being Italian, how can design be used to question its deep-rooted conventions? How do new methodologies, 3D software, and new materials connect to a national heritage in which food, industry, and politics have always had a complex relationship? And what future possibilities do they reveal?

This project appropriates pasta as a primary source, beyond its culinary origins, to explore technology and making in a cultural context. By translating extrusion from the main method of pasta production to 3D software, new rules emerge for efficiency, form, scale, and process. This experimentation is an opportunity to create a new in a medium that is over 1,000 years old.