ROME.- A gigantic green dinosaur, a neon flying saucer, a rainbow and myriad coloured lights: just a few of the elements making up the installation MAXXI Temporary School: The museum is a school. A school is a Battleground by the Milanese studio Parasite 2.0, winner of YAP MAXXI 2016, the sixth Italian edition of the programme supporting and promoting young architecture organized by MAXXI in collaboration with MoMA/MoMA PS1 of New York, Constructo of Santiago de Chile, Istanbul Modern and MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul.

YAP MAXXI 2016 is curated by Pippo Ciorra, senior curator MAXXI Architettura, directed by Margherita Guccione, main partner Enel.

Three sets built with elements in wood, recycled rubber and metal have been installed in three different areas of the piazza to offer the public a place to relax.

Each set has different details and structures: one has just two walls rising on a star-shaped podium that can be reached via a tunnel; in the second, a gigantic dinosaur spouts water, creating a timed fountain while from a wall rises the script “desert” along with images of a head from Easter Island and Saturn; in the third, a rock garden overarched by a rainbow and a neon flying saucer are in part hidden by dolmens.

Fantastical settings, references from diverse cultures, fragments of nature and pop-up details providing backdrops for visitors’ thousand-like selfies: interaction with the public is fundamental to this year’s project. All the structures are dominated by the colour green which is read as a green screen by a special web app created for the project; thanks to this app visitors may take photos and modify them with special effects associated with the project images and then share them.