Tag: Francesca Berni
PALIMPSEST closing event: a celebration of three years of creative research
Three years of artistic research, cross-border collaboration, and creative experimentation came to a celebratory close at Politecnico di Milano, as the full PALIMPSEST consortium gathered for its final event.
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Landscapes in Trouble, Landscapes in Action: a new publication from PALIMPSEST
We are delighted to share the (open access) publication of Landscapes in Trouble, Landscapes in Action: Theories and Practices Between Space, Art and Ecology (Mimesis International).
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Spazio CRAFT Building 11B Via Ampère - Campus Leonardo - Politecnico di Milano
On 23 April 2026, the final event of the European project PALIMPSEST will take place at Politecnico di Milano, marking the conclusion of a three-year research exploring the role of artistic and creative practices in environmental and territorial transformations.
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Entangling soil and sky: water, mycelium and meander as languages of landscape contamination
Reflections from the Łódź Pilot Project, PALIMPSEST On March 27th Francesca Berni took part in the IASLA National Conference 2026 “Contaminations”, contributing to the thematic track Representations with a reflection on how landscape can be read, imagined, and reconfigured through alternative ecological narratives and spatial practices. The contribution develops within…
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Lambrogino Award on World Water Day
On World Water Day, Sunday 23 March, the Lambrogino Award was bestowed at Casa di Quartiere Parea, in Milan's Ponte Lambro neighbourhood. Before an audience of local residents and institutions, the partner organisations behind the award presented the winning projects.
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On Friday, the 21st of March, Francesca Berni will chair a seminar curated and organised with Irene Bianchi, Three Rivers' Tales: Encounters at the Art-Research Interface. The seminar explores water as a connection, transformation, and artistic inquiry medium.
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Diving into the prototyping activities of PALIMPSEST pilots
These past weeks, CALL has been working with artists gethan&miles on the development of their project that aimes to integrate the transformative power of creative action around the river Lambro. This artist residency is lead as part of PALIMPSEST – Creative Drivers for Sustainable Living Heritage Research Project.
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“Exploring Mycelium in Urban Water Management” at the inaugural Nature in the City event, Paris
Francesca Berni was present at the inaugural Nature in the City event hosted by Sciences Po Paris Campus where she presented her research "Exploring Mycelium in Urban Water Management Through Autopoietic Processes and Holistic Perspectives: Insights from the Polish City of Łódź".
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The Case of the PALIMPSEST Milanese Pilot at the MISERABILIA PRIN Conference “The City of Misery,” October 30-31, 2024
Francesca Berni had the pleasure of presenting her work, “Life’s Irreverent Pulse Thrives: With the River Lambro, a Tribute to the Present Yet to Come.” Drawing from observations of drifting refuse and debris carried by water during one of the three residential workshops of the PALIMPSEST project, she explored the…
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1st Review Meeting of the PALIMPSEST project
Last week, the 1st Review Meeting of the PALIMPSEST project took place in Milan, organized and hosted by DAStU - Politecnico di Milano. The three-day event was marked by intense work and a rich exchange of ideas among the multidisciplinary team of PALIMPSEST.
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Francesca Berni has been selected at the Aperto seminars
Good news Francesca Berni has been selected to attend one of the Aperto seminars, "Relazionarsi al presente”, next week in Turin. Aperto is a project of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
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First PALIMPSEST Residential Workshop in Milan
The concluding Residential Workshop of the first phase of PALIMPSEST – Creative Drivers for Sustainable Living Heritage Research Project took place in Milan last week.
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Compost Fest @Bergamo
From May 20 to 26, the first edition of "Compost Fest - Il festival delle scienze ecologiche e sociali del domani" was held . This independent and self-financed initiative blended research and social commitment into an experimental lab spread throughout the city of Bergamo.
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CALL at AESOP Young Academics Conference
CALL researchers participated at the AESOP Young Academic Conference 2024 "Bridging Gaps: Urban Planning for Coexistence”, held at Politecnico di Milano from March 19th to 22nd. The conference was organised and coordinated by PhD students from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
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