Al Fuorisalone 2025among the historical architectures of the University of Milan, Tam Tam It is an installation that does not just show himself, but asks to be lived. Made by the study Alvisi Kirimoto For Coreplathe national consortium for plastic recycling, is an invitation to rethink the role of waste materials, and our way of living in them.
The work, consisting of six five meters high columns made in recycled plasticlooks like a “secular temple”. But unlike a sacred building, it does not have a fixed structure: it is mobile, transformable. The columns, light and flexible, can be moved by visitors, which thus become co-aids of the space. Each gesture changes the landscape, each shift creates new geometries, new voids, new silences. It is an architecture that listens.
The name Tam Tam is not accidental. Evoke the ancestral beat of the drums used to communicate between villages, to gather people, to transmit messages. And here the message is clear: plastic, if treated with care, can become language. It can be sound, structure, content. It can tell stories other than those of pollution and waste.
To make the experience immersive is also the interior of the structure. Far from the city chaosthe visitor finds himself in an muffled environment, in which the noise becomes a rhythm and the static nature becomes potential dance. Silence is not absence, but presence: it invites you to reflect, to share, to stay. A simple, but powerful gesture, in a city that runs.
The installation is designed as an activated space: it houses readings, performances, meetings. It becomes a place of encounter between people and thoughts, between art and sustainability. It is not just an aesthetic work, but a social device. It shows that art, when it is well rooted in the present, can speak effectively of urgent themes such as recycling, environmental responsibility, urban coexistence.
“Tam Tam shows that plastic can be noble,” he says Giovanni Cassutipresident of Corepla. “When it is managed virtuously, it becomes raw material for creativity, culture, public reflection”. A declaration that is reflected in the physicality of the work: recycled plastic profiles do not try to mask their origin, but enhance it, bringing the question to the center of space and dialogue.
