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Invited by Marjetica Potrc to hold a workshop 27-28-29 January 2010, within the course led by Marjetica Potrc at IUAV (Venice, italy): Sustainable Venice. The course gave place to an array of experimental workshops supported by Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Those workshops resulted in the exhibition Common Ground: Projects for the Lagoon which took place April 10, 2010 in Palazzetto Tito, Venice.
My workshop with the students of Visual Arts - IUAV focused on giving voice to the invisible citizens of Venice by revisiting four of my projects: The Cook, the Farmer, his Wife and their Neighbor, Homemade, Singingchairs and Moving in Free Zones #2. By referring to the exhibition of Marjetica Potrc and Marguerite Kahrl in Palazzetto Tito, Lucy Lippard says, in her text Water Water Everywhere: “Relational objects by students, which were produced with Lucia Babina, are the result of personal discussions between students and local residents and will later be presented as gifts to the residents, emphasizing the fact that people are one of Venice’s sustainable assets. In fact, when these artists look at place, they see the people who live there and the ways their lives must be negotiated with the powers that be – both political and natural”.  © Marjetica Potrc. See also Marjetica Potrc's website
Urbanacción Conference 25-26-27 November 2009 in La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Presentation of The Cook, the Farmer, his Wife and their Neighbor, organized by Urbanaccion
 See La Casa Encendida
HOMEMADE project: First workshop 21-30 October 2009 in Venice.
 See Rebiennale/HOMEMADE website Freedom is participating into the life of your own city. Problems of a city belong to its inhabitants, as well as the joy of conducting there a good life. Finding an alternative to the social, economical, environmental and political system, we are part of, is also our duty as inhabitants and citizens. HOMEMADE is a collective project that involves inhabitants of Venice, international experts and professionals to re-think the city, to re-vitalize it and to re-appropriate it. By learning from the experience of ASC (Associazione Sociale per la Casa – Social Association for Housing) and of Rebiennale (permanent recycling workshop of materials from the Biennale of Venice) – both practices are aimed at re-using and redefining the urban habitat of Venice –, it sprang HOMEMADE. HOMEMADE is an experimental workshop which stimulates a sense of belonging, which advocates for the right to the city and for the freedom to choose a sustainable future. HOMEMADE aimes to: - stimulate participatory and awareness processes - redefine the urban space as a community space - re-imagine a city in which inhabitants are able and allowed to decide about needs and priorities - promote the coexistence between the rural and the urban in the lagoon of Venice - encourage a sustainable social tourism The project originated from the collaboration between ASC, Rebiennale, Emiliano Gandolfi, Lucia Babina/iStrike, Exyzt and Refunc, and the participation of Anomalie Urbane (IUAV). HOMEMADE intends to give a voice to inhabitants of Venice and to allow them to decide, through their active participation in a process of transformation, in what kind of city they want to live and cohabit.
Lu Cafausu: luoghi, assenze, iper-luoghi,
territori, transiti e permanenze, on occasion of Dov’è
casa? - Nomads in Res, organized by Soundres in Lecce, 22nd July 2008.
In the panel: Lucia Babina (cultural producer), Emiliano Gandolfi (architect and curator of the Padiglione Italia at the XI Biennale of Architecture in Venezia 2008), and the artists Giancarlo  Go to the Soundres website
Presentation
of the book Networked Cultures (eds. Peter Moertenboeck
and Helge Mooshammer, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008) which took place in the NAi, 1st May 2008.
In the panel: Emiliano Gandolfi (curator at the NAi and of the Biennale of Venice of Architecture , 2008), Sudeep Dasgupta (professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam), Lucia Babina (cultural producer and president of Moderators: Peter Moertenboeck (fellow at Goldsmith University, London) and Helge Mooshammer (founder and member of ThinkArchitecture).  Go to the Networked Cultures website |