What if man could be understood starting from the white areas, from the empty spaces? From the scraps of what he creates? From what it leaves rather than from what it collects or gives shape to? If something is chosen and thrown away or abandoned every day, these shreds of history, even personal ones, are selected to enrich lists and lists: perhaps then this second life, these "new lands" that unfold, often in the collector's obsessive repetition, raise the doubt that the problem, or the new opportunity, is not in the objects but in the way in which they are arranged. Sara Marini leads us among what she defines as "New Lands", on a path that intends to cross and expose the sediments that have been deposited on primary actions; if the gap sometimes represents the resultant then starting from this it is possible to go backwards to better understand what we started from.
Meeting organized in collaboration with quodlibet
Architect, PhD, Sara Marini is a researcher in architectural and urban composition at the IUAV University of Venice. He mainly deals with architectural and urban design and architectural design theory. Among his publications Re-cycle. Strategie per l’architettura, la città e il pianeta, Electa 2011, Nuove terre. Architetture e paesaggi dello scarto, Quodlibet 2010 e Architettura parassita. Strategie di riciclaggio per la città, Quodlibet 2008.
Manuel Orazi (Macerata, 1974) trained as an architectural and city historian in Venice. He is a contract professor of theories of contemporary architecture at the faculties of architecture of Ascoli Piceno and Cesena. He works for the Quodlibet publishing house, where he is a press agent and deals with architecture titles, and collaborates with some newspapers and magazines including "Abitare" and "Log". Since 2011 he has been part of the scientific committee of Festarch International Architecture Festival of Perugia.