Curry Stone 2008 Finalist, Antonio Scarponi_Dreaming Wall, 2004

The Curry Stone Design Prize is awarded by the Curry Stone Foundation to an individual or group who, in response to a particular need in an area of: clean water, clean air, clean food, shelter, community health, and peace, have developed a specific design solution that has the potential to create beneficial change and vital community. Like the MacArthur Award, this prize is "no strings attached." The recipient of the award will be announced each September at the Louisville IdeaFestival.

Antonio Scarponi, an architect based in Venice, Italy whose interdisciplinary projects use architecture, multimedia arts and design to jam conventional social orders and illuminate the social and political lines that unite and divide us. His 2004-2005 interactive project, Dreaming Wall, was a digitally generated billboard installed in an historic Milanese square that displayed randomly chosen real-time text messages sent from across the world.

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What was this wall all about? Did the people in the crowd type the words on there?