The work proposes to take the bellwether as a point of departure for exploring the interactivity of plants, people, animals, and terrain in relation to climate disaster. The area of Matese is a shepherding region, where shepherds and flocks circulate between mountains and valleys. Responding to this economic tradition with the practical and poetic qualities
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In the area of Matese, the “wasted materials” coming from the local practices end up in the local waste plant in Acerra. The final ashes coming out from the waste plant have still to be managed, some of the ashes are transported hundreds of kilometers to north Italy, to be processed in other plants. This
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Bio Mario Festa works under the principles of sustainable architecture and building design to minimize carbon emissions. He matured an extensive experience in these fields both in Italy and abroad. From 1993 to 1999, the years of reconstruction, he worked in Berlin dealing with urban design and redevelopment; from 1999 to 2008 he contributed to
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The design concept sees the realization of a scalable and applicable systemic model throughout the Matese territory. This proposal provides for the construction of a new plant textile district in an ecological, sustainable and innovative key which, in addition to develop numerous by-products, it is able to recover specific “outputs” from the typical Matesine food
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Bio Born in Bussi sul Tirino (Pescara) in 1938, a native of Arpino (Frosinone), he lives and works in Milan where he graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico in 1964. An architect by training, he is an artist, filmmaker, editor, musician, cartoonist and teacher. He has been defininghimself as a researcher in communication systems and
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Bio Marco Scotini is Artistic Director of FM Center for Contemporary Art in Milan. Since 2004, he is Head of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA, Milan. Since 2014 he is Head of Exhibitions Program at PAV – Parco d’Arte Vivente, Turin. During his career, Scotini has curated more than two hundred
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Bio Iain Chambers is presently Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Oriental University in Naples where he has been Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies. He is known for his interdisciplinary and intercultural work on music, popular and metropolitan cultures. More recently he has transmuted this line of research into a series
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Bio Maria Thereza Alves (1961, Brazil) is an artist. Alves was co-founder of the Partido Verde of São Paulo, Brazil in 1987. In 1979 while a member of the International Indian Treaty Council, based in New York, she made an official presentation on the human rights abuses of the indigenous population of Brazil at the
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Bio Rihards Funts sees design as a form of art that unites rational and emotional perception of objects, where aesthetic values of the object have roots in craftsmanship and engineering and become visible through the functionality of objects and highlight the value of the selected material. The useful things should be made beautiful. He has
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Bio Michael Obrist (1972, Bolzano, Italy) is an architect and partner of feld72 architekten zt gmbh. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and the School of Architecture of Portsmouth. He added a few semester of studies in philosophy at the University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts (Seminar Peter Sloterdijk).
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