Workshop: Transversal Territory

Transversal Territory is a transdisciplinary and participatory workshop that critically engages with the intersections of urbanism, ecology, artistic practice, corporeality, and health. It explores how to deepen, expand and transcend conventional paradigms of the perception and understanding of urban space. Its particularity lies in triggering experiences of, and reflections on, the relationship between us, our bodies, our health, the built landscape and natural environment through in situ artistic performances and installations. The aim of the workshop is to nourish our imagination and to broaden the scope of our environmental sensitivity, through another possible experience of our own living space. Students, in collaboration with the local community, carry out artistic-landscape-architectural and performative interventions carried out in situ. These interventions culminate in a public presentation, designed to invite critical engagement, shared experience, and dialogue across academic and non-academic audiences. This workshop is a collaboration with the City of Mendrisio.

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The aim of this workshop is to nourish our imagination and to broaden the scope of our environmental sensitivity, through another possible experience of our own living space.

• Sustainable cities and communities

In presence

This workshop is conceived as a laboratory for experimentation. The students in collaboration with local inhabitants develop site-specific interventions at the intersection of art, landscape architecture, and performance. While the thematic framework is clearly defined, the approach remains open and playful, encouraging freedom in both research and experimentation. The aim is to investigate, discover, experiment and to take a new look at our living space, to understand, feel, see and live the notion of environment with “enlarged senses”.

Active participation to the workshop and to the public presentation.