New ecologies and archaeology of navigation
23-26 June 2026
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.
Programme
Tuesday 23 June 2026
knowledge/exploration: meeting participants, site visit, identification of themes.
Wednesday and Thursday 24 and 25 June 2026
processing: work in groups, reviews.
Friday 26 June 2026
discussion: round-table discussion of results, exhibition of work.
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
Teachers
Antonio Perazzi e Benedetta Forni,
Studio Antonio Perazzi, Milano
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Giacomo Casentini (tutor)
architetto
Marco Ferrari, architetto, borsista in Fondazione (tutor);
Michele Zammattio, architetto, borsista in Fondazione (tutor);
Luigi Latini
direttore, professore di Architettura del Paesaggio all’Università IUAV di Venezia
Simonetta Zanon (coordinamento)
progetti paesaggio