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SABATO 13

New World. A dialogue between American and Italian landscapes

Luogo: Basilica Palladiana Hall đź”—

Orario: 12:00 PM

Durata: 1 hour

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Relatori:

Sara Gangemi

PhD in Environmental and Landscape Design, currently teaches at the Politecnico di Milano. She works as senior landscape architect at Stefano Boeri Architetti. Her work focuses on complex processes of urban transformation and public space, as well as curatorial and research projects related to the theme of landscape and participation.

Valerio Morabito

Architect and professor at the Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria and the University of Pennsylvania, he has published numerous research works. Among his most original projects is a series of drawings of American cities—real places depicted through marks, traces, and symbols—conceived as living organisms that grow, fail, redefine themselves, and adapt.

Claudio Bertorelli

With a hybrid background and a natural inclination for exploring contemporary landscapes, he moved from classical studies to the Faculty of Engineering in Trieste, where he taught and founded LAST – Laboratory for Postgraduate Masters. He later created the research and design hubs Centro Studi Usine (2002) and Aspro Studio (2003), through which he carried out built projects and urban and social regeneration processes. From 2007 to 2013, he conceived and directed Comodamente, the first Italian festival to take place solely in disused spaces. In 2010, in collaboration with Fuoribiennale, he launched Provincia Italiana. From 2014 to 2016, he was director of the Francesco Fabbri Foundation. In 2017, he was invited as an expert by the Italian Ministry of Culture and Tourism to contribute to the first national platform “Futuro Periferie”. He contributed to the drafting of Veneto’s regional law on “Limiting land consumption and urban regeneration”.

The discovery of America marks the beginning of a new modernity. From that moment on, the unmeasured scale of natural expanses, the vertical growth of cities, and even Mark Rothko’s abstract canvases find in the landscape a key to inner interpretation that unsettles the cradle of the European imagination. To the point of provoking a reversal as simple as Columbus’s egg, and the birth of a mutual fascination between the two sides of the Ocean – a fascination that still endures today and manifests itself in a thousand forms of design: from the most ephemeral (it is said that Sergio Leone shot some Western scenes in the Sardinian village of San Salvatore) to the hyper-realistic, which draws Americans to lose themselves in the countryside and historic centers of Italy.
Once again, the landscape proves to be a (new) world of relationships balanced between identity and difference.

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