Most Americans know MoMA’s Young Architect’s Program (YAP) through its annual summer festival in the MoMA PS1 courtyard in Long Island City, but they also have an impressive international program. For the Roman edition of the program, this year’s winner, studio Parasite 2.0, installed a giant green dinosaur, a neon flying saucer, and other peculiar objects in the sunlit courtyard of the Zaha Hadid-designed MAXXI Museum.

Entitled MAXXI Temporary School: the museum is a school. A school is a battleground, the installation is composed of three sets made of wood, recycled rubber and metal. One of the sets has two walls rising from a star-shaped podium accessible by a tunnel. Another comprises a rock garden, a rainbow, and the flying saucer. In the third, a dinosaur spout water alongside images of the planet Saturn and Easter Island moan.

“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,” read the press release. 

The project also includes a bespoke app. Since most of the elements in the installation are green, they serve as a green screen, enabling visitors to modify the objects with the help of special affects.

Like with the MoMA PS1 iterations, the YAP MAXXI 2016 includes a great lineup of concerts and other events. For more information on the cultural programming, follow this link.