Call edition 2026

Aims and contents

The Benetton Foundation is dedicating the 2026 landscape design workshop to a short section of the Sile river, downstream from the city of Treviso, in the municipalities of Casier and Silea, a typical context of the resurgence river that stands out for the unexpected presence of the “archaeological” area known as the burci cemetery and, on the opposite bank, of a partly abandoned industrial landscape. In the large ruined buildings that accompany the course of the river, new wild ecosystems are now developing thanks to pioneer and ruderal vegetation that is also enveloping the still visible remains of the old semi-submerged boats.
In continuity with the experience conducted in 2025 (Unveiling landscapes. The resurgences of Botteniga north of Treviso), the workshop looks again at a water landscape, the most connotative element of this territory, a much-loved and lived-in landscape, and stands as a moment of reflection and awareness on the meaning of exploration, observation and representation of the dynamism of emblematic places of the era we live in. Environments that are not only spaces available for leisure, not even theaters of memory or spaces awaiting replacement processes, which represent, instead, opportunities for design experimentation aimed at the future. Places that invite us to grasp, in the “nature of abandonment”, the disruptive presence of all living beings and the physical elements that act in the landscape, giving it shape and meaning. To imagine, alongside innovative forms of knowledge and design of the places themselves (an exercise possible only with the complicity of many different contributions), also a more conscious relationship of people with the landscape and their own places of life.

Teachers: Antonio Perazzi and Benedetta Forni, Studio Antonio Perazzi, Milan
conception and coordination: Luigi Latini, director of the Benetton Foundation, professor of Landscape Architecture at the IUAV University of Venice and Simonetta Zanon, landscape projects Fondazione Benetton

Activities
The workshop will occupy four days from Tuesday 23 to Friday 26 June 2026.
It will be based in Treviso, in Fondazione Benetton, and will include seminar type activities, lectures, sites visits, discussions, design, and work presentations.
All participants will be issued with an attendance certificate.

Selected participants
Tommaso Antiga
Luca Autore
Francesca Baracco
Andrea Bernardelli
Jacopo Calafati
Maria Vittoria Ceola
Sofia Luce Contini
Valentina Dell’Olio
Linda Flaviani
Elisabetta Gatti
Marta Elisa Signorelli
Alberto Tallon