Also this year Lungomare proposes the series of talks, workshops and performances: Difference as potential.

With this program Lungomare focuses on the idea of the city as a social space. We think of the city and its shared places as a tool that can make visible the transformations that currently take place in our society, as a place of contact and meeting between different cultures and people, a place where difference becomes a protagonist. The events represent an opportunity for exchange and discussion with artists, architects and designers to question the urban spaces that are transformed and radicalized, making aspects ephemeral such as the concept of “other”, “identity”, “belonging” and “hospitality”.

ORIZZONTALE
26 November 2019
7 pm

Nasrin Mohiti Asli (Orizzontale)
in conversation with Campomarzio

in Italian language

The third appointment of the series of talks Difference as potential presents Orizzontale, an architects’ collective based in Rome whose work crosses the fields of architecture, urbanism, public art, and DIY practice.

Since 2010 Orizzontale has been developing projects of common relational spaces, giving form to both dismissed and unseen images of the city. These projects have led to experimenting new kinds of collaborative interactions between city dwellers and urban commons as well as offering the possibility to test the boundaries of the architectural creation process.

Currently Orizzontale is composed by Jacopo Ammendola, Juan Lopez Cano, Giuseppe Grant, Margherita Manfra, Nasrin Mohiti Asli, Roberto Pantaleoni, Stefano Ragazzo

TALK

RE-HABIT AND RE-CONSTRUCT THE COMMON SPACE

The public space is the dimension in which we live every day as inhabitants, and where Orizzontale decided to act as architects. The progressive estrangement of communities from the collective spaces of the city and the rapid evolution of the needs of contemporary society, led the collective to start a design research that had as its central theme the public space.

Orizzontale’s aim is to investigate the causes of this “desertification” and to respond to new social needs by experimenting with new ways of intervention in public space. Public actions, ephemeral architecture, shared construction workshops are some of the tools they use to act in the reactivation of common spaces.

Through the actions and processes of reactivation of collective places, we re-live spaces, both directly, with the “open building site” and indirectly, through their installations. The objective of these “urban scenic machines” is to create a collective imagination, stimulate emotions, reflections, habits and behaviours, promoting interaction and involving the inhabitants in the redefinition of the use and configuration of the space.
With their projects Orizzontale tries to give shape to an imaginative, inclusive and celebratory common space.

Campomarzio is an architectural collective practice which merges practical and theoretical expertise within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research, and visual communication, to develop projects and strategies for public and private clients.