Act 4 Changespace and design strategies coming from Rome (Stalker)
and Venice (BiennaleUrbana)
How can we decolonize our mindset
from violence and oppression, from illegitimate privileges, from the
quiescent social and environmental acceptance of injustice? Art and
architecture today has to question the present, explore its creative
margins, inhabit its conflicts, taking care of the rejected, welcoming
the possible, assembling the future. Art today needs to forge new
politics, new ecologies, new relationships with science and society
responding to emerging social and environmental questions, create the
forms and the languages we need for a better comprehension of the shift
we’re living in. We need to bring art back to a need, share it with those
who need it and transform it into something needed. It is about the
fine art of re-inhabiting the planet…
Andrea Curtoni Architect, PhD in Urbanism at the IUAV
University of Venice. His research has focused on insurgent practices
and the re-appropriation of urban spaces. Coordinator in different urban
regeneration projects in Venice: Teatro Marinoni (2012-17), Esperienza
Pepe (2016-19), Corte de l’Ogio (2022-). Co-founder of Biennale Urbana
(2014-) and Mutaforma (2022-).
Giulia Mazzorin Architect, artist and PhD in Urbanism at IUAV
University of Venice. Her practice focus on complex projects in between
art and architecture. Coordinator in different urban regeneration
projects: Teatro Marinoni (2012-17), Esperienza Pepe (2016-19),
AltopianoCommunityHub (2021-), Corte de l’Ogio (2022-). Co-founder of
Biennale Urbana (2014-) and Mutaforma (2022-).
Lorenzo Romito Architect, artist, activist. Prix de Rome
Architecte at Académie de France, Villa Medici, Rome (2000-01).
Co-founder of Stalker (1995), Osservatorio Nomade (2002),
Primaveraromana (2009), Biennale Urbana (2014), NoWorking(2016). Next
visiting professor to the Cattedra de Sanctis, ETH Zurich 2024.