Underground

International Landscape Study Days

Thursday 20-Friday 21 February 2025
Treviso, spazi Bomben

The theme for the 2025 International Landscape Study Days revolves around the key word underground.

 

 

Thursday 20th February

> h 10am – 10.30am

Introduction to Study Days 2025 by the curators Luigi Latini and Simonetta Zanon

 

> h 10.30am – 1pm

· One thousand and one caves. Darkness and sleep of Time, Matteo Meschiari, Associate professor of Geography, University of Palermo

· Terra Forma. Giving depth to the surface, Alexandra Arènes, Architect and researcher at Shaā

· Imaginaries from the underground, Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli, Architects, curators and associate professors, EAVT Paris-Est

 

> h 1.30pm – 2.15pm

A look at underground Treviso

Bastione di Santa Sofia, guided visit organised together with the association “Treviso sotterranea”

(for Study Days participants, reservation required, duration 20 minutes)

 

> h 3pm – 5.30pm

· ‘Behind’ vs. ‘under’ the landscape, Michael Jakob, Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio

· Geoarchitectural Histories, Galaad Van Daele, Researcher, ETH Zürich

· The search for water in Trieste and the discovery of the underground river Timavo, Marco Restaino, Speleologist, President of the Società Adriatica di Speleologia, Trieste

 

> h 5.30pm

Il buco, a film by Michelangelo Frammartino (Italy, 2021, 93’)

Screening introduced by the director

 

Friday 21st February

> h 10am – 11.30am

· Invisible landscapes: the underground connections between roots, fungi and bacteria, Paola Bonfante, Professor Emeritus of Plant Biology, University of Turin

· In a hole in the ground there lived… a bee. Journey among inhabitants of the underworld, Elena Antoniolli, Architect and PhD in Landscape Architecture

 

> h 12pm – 1pm

On the side of fire. Rites, approaches and cultivation practices in the landscape Presentation of the book edited by Luigi Latini and Simonetta Zanon (Fondazione Benetton-Antiga Edizioni, Treviso 2024) by the editors and Marco Belpoliti, writer and essayist, University of Bergamo, author of To rescue fire, introductory essay of the book

 

> h 3pm – 5.30pm

· ‘I feel it under my shoes’, Paolo Bürgi, professor, Landscape architect, Camorino

· Underground water and gardens, Henry Bava, Agence Ter, Paris

· Inside out, outside in, Catherine Mosbach, mosbach paysagistes, Paris