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A great middle ground, like a pier stretching into the Mediterranean, where the traditional contrast between North and South is dematerialized, revealing an Arcipelago, in which the islands are the interior regions of Italy, projecting like a pier into the Mediterranean. Spaces, places, areas, neither metropolitan cities nor suburbs, representing 60% of the country.
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“OTHER SPACE” is the film that narrates the journey of Mario Cucinella through the interior territories of Italy, to rediscover the roots of a tangible and intangible material knowledge along the millenarian history of the country, its true DNA. In these places the arts, crafts, and knowledge were born, which gave life to cities, with their architecture, their piazzas, their cultural heritage, then eventually their manufacturing and industry. Today, cut off from the transport networks that connect large urban centers, these areas have become depopulated and often seem abandoned. This journey is one of continuity, a dialogue between the past and the future: a synthesis that can be represented through contemporary architecture, without being imprisoned in the golden cage of History.
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Cucinella departs from Venice and crosses Alps, Apennines, islands. Along the way he meets the people who live there. Ashepherd who still practices seasonal livestock migration in Alta Murgia, a painter who tells stories by painting murals on the walls of the houses of Orgosolo, the citizens of Gibellina nuova, the city born out of the rubble of the Belice earthquake, rich in immensely valuable works ofart, but incomplete and abandoned. And then a Camaldolese friar, the order that for a thousand years looked after the Casentinesi Forests. Lone eagles, escaping the metropolis, who come from all over the world to work thanks to the broadband of the visionary project of the Telematic Village of Colletta in Castel Bianco. And still others.
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The following questions arise from these encounters: What is right way forward after an earthquake? How to rebuild? How much can we exploit our woodlands? How will we get from one place to another in the future? Where do we live better and longer? And why?
“Abandonment” versus “Healing.” “Sustainability.” These are the themes.
Sustainability understood as support, help, as a civic duty, borrowing its meaning from music, where sustain is the duration of a note. If the environment in which we live is a musical note, can architecture help it to last? Can the architect reclaim his role as a “physician of places” and help people to take care of the environment they live in? To revive them and to instill new life?
The Italian National Pavilion Theme Documentary of 2018 Venice International Architecture Biennale,
A future rural sustainable development journey through humanity, nature and architecture
produced by
SOMEONE srl, production company from Milan with Rai Cinema
Director: Marcello Pastonesi and Carlo Furgeri Gilbert
Author: Mario Cucinella
Lenght: 60’
Color
Language: Italian
Mario Cucinella
Global Sustainable Design Leader, Famous Italian Architect
Honorary academician college by The American Institute of Architects(AIA)
Gold Medal Winner by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Founder of Mario Cucinella Architects
Founder of the S.O.S Bologna Institute for Sustainable Development
Founder of BGF Building Green Future Organization
Head of the PLEA Passive and Low Energy Building Science Committee
The Curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018
Mario Cucinella is one of the most influential architect in the world nowadays and the soul of sustainable design worldwide. His influence on architecture and education is widely recognized internationally and contributes to the environment and society.
His design concepts of “building a greenfuture” and “creative empathy” have received much attention and praise.
Sustainable building design and the rational use of local natural energy are among the focuses of their work and research. He motivates every building to have a positive impact on the regeneration of its surroundings (nature, city and society), and he always encourages the use of beautiful and rich design languages that express local culture.
Theme of the Italian Pavilion at the 2018 Venice International Architecture Biennale:
Arcipelago Italia
Arcipelago Italia was the theme of the Italian Pavilion at the 2018 Venice International Architecture Biennale. The curatorial plan is to express the theme of ‘freespace’ by focusing on the territorial archipelago made up of urban/rural settlements and the landscape connecting them. It is within these cells, which escape the rationale of the aggregation of metropolitan organisms, that the demarcation line between public and private space tends to be blurred.
Historically, different regions of Italy have their own sphere of influence, and disputes between regions have shaped the rich multicultural heritage of every part. In recent years, people’s attention has focused on the major works in the urban areas, leaving out the brilliant culture of over 4,000 towns, even though they represent 60% of the Italian territory and 25% of the population, hence losing that the region with the most potential and beauty.
Curator Mario Cucinella emphasizes the urban space of Italy, which is different from the metropolises of other European urban structure. It is a series of small and medium-sized cities and villages scattered like small islands. The neighboring cities are connected to form the Italian archipelago like an urban space in the Mediterranean. From the aspects of nature, humanities, science and technology, etc., we will explore how architecture can promote sustainable development and stimulate rural vitality in a specific way. In the end, it can bring about the revival of Italy as a whole.
Guided by an interdisciplinary team of architects, planners, sociologists, local university scholars and professional consultants, “crossing” Italy, shifting people’s attention from big cities to the countryside, taking the dialogue with history and culture, architecture and nature to sees the key words of environmental protection and regeneration.
In the exhibition, people’s attention is focused on the villages of “inventory of infinite cultural heritage”. Functional mixed buildings and communities can help solve social problems such as population reduction, lack of services and weakening of connections, and achieve sustainable development of the countryside.
After years of shifting agricultural population to cities, the theme of rural world change has also been pursued by China. This is an unprecedented place for growth; through the “Village Revitalization” strategy and the “Green Water Mountain” initiative, The value of rural areas opens up new frontiers for sustainable development.
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