{"id":2850,"date":"2018-12-03T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/kiss-the-frog-3\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:30:03","slug":"kiss-the-frog-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/kiss-the-frog-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss the frog &#8211; Politecnico Milano Bovisa (Italy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span lang=\"EN-GB\">More than fifty brightly coloured frogs will soon invade the Politecnico di Milano\u2019s Bovisa Campus, with a few incursions taking place in the Leonardo Campus as well, climbing up and down the walls of its buildings and elegant awnings. <i>Kiss the Frog<\/i> is the initiative organised by our University and Cracking Art, the artistic movement founded in 1993, renowned worldwide for its urban installations of works resembling animals made from reclaimed and recycled plastic.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Kiss the Frog<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> is a <b>fundraising campaign<\/b>. Indeed, by purchasing the small Cracking Art <b>sculptures<\/b>, which in view of the event have been customised and co-branded \u201cPolitecnico di Milano\/Cracking Art\u201d, buyers will be funding <b>the new interdepartmental laboratory CIRC-eV <\/b>(Circular Factory for the Electrified Vehicles of the Future) dedicated to the development of circular economy technology within the automotive sector to be used in future sustainable factories. Specifically, the research will focus on advanced systems for recovering and reusing lithium-ion batteries discarded from electric and hybrid vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cThe new laboratory set to be built on the Bovisa Campus\u201d, explained Prof. <b>Marco Bocciolone<\/b>, <b>Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department <\/b>and promotor of the initiative, \u201cwill become a point of reference for the Region, the Nation and even Europe when it comes to circular economy and future sustainable factories, in such a strategic sector as that of electric mobility\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The keyword for \u201cKiss the Frog\u201d is <b>#rigeneriamoci <\/b>(\u201clet\u2019s regenerate\u201d). For years now, Cracking Art has shared the concept of <b>\u201cart that regenerates art\u201d<\/b> combining artistic initiatives with charity campaigns aimed at supporting cultural heritage and scientific research. And the Politecnico, through the research that will take place in the laboratory, will make a fundamental contribution to the challenges involved in circular economy. All within a neighbourhood charged with a powerful sense of \u201cregeneration\u201d, that of <b>Bovisa<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">For this reason, among the many animals produced by Cracking Art, the frog was chosen, which, because of the metamorphosis it undergoes during its lifecycle and its connection with water, becomes a symbol of rebirth, regeneration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The miniature sculptures will be available from 30<sup>th<\/sup> November in the <b>Politecnico di Milano official merchandise store at Via Bonardi 3<\/b> in Milan and on <b><a class=\"external-link-new-window\" title=\"Opens internal link in current window\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2P850Al\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/b>. All proceeds will be put towards the research and development of the CIRC-eV laboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than fifty brightly coloured frogs will soon invade the Politecnico di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5776,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/5776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}