No other city is more representative of history and memory than Rome. An exhibition seeks out its essence, among artistic imagination and everyday life, socio-economic data and global comparisons. We explore these themes with the curators Ricky Burdett, Paola Viganò and Keti Lelo
Mattia Di Carlo, Circular Design Specialist at the GXN research centre, tells humus® how to design buildings with a view to their virtuous reuse and how the city can become a circular infrastructure rather than a deposit of future ruins
The Siris project, inspired by Edoardo Tresoldi’s concept of Absent Matter by, reinterprets the ruins of the Herakleia Archaeological Park in Policoro with the site-specific works of three international artists. We spoke to the artistic director Antonio Oriente.
The artist Vica Pacheco came up with a collective music work for the hamlet of Bagnara di Romagna: a lay procession and concert with ceramic instruments aiming to listen to the place, its history and its nature.
In their suspended beauty, the works of the Dutch artist do not conceal but rather show their nature as ceramics put back together, their consistency as regenerated fragments. Bouke de Vries explains why he chose to breathe new life into the remains of a distant past.
Born as an ideal Renaissance town inspired by the principles of the golden ratio, Barchi – a town in the Italian Marche region – was at risk of depopulation. Today it is the focus of a regeneration project that all the inhabitants are called on to take part in.
Within the urban fabric, stark contradictions coexist, defying the polished image curated for tourists. Elusive and compelling, cities become the flâneur’s terrain of discovery — he, the priest of the genius loci, whose aimless wandering allows him to grasp their deepest secrets.