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PALIMPSEST 2nd residential workshop in Jerez de la Frontera
News from Jerez de la Frontera, where the 2nd PALIMPSEST Residential Workshop was held from June 23rd to 28th.
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PALIMPSEST at the JRC Seville ceremony
On 30 June 2025, our Irene Bianchi represented PALIMPSEST at the official "first brick" ceremony of the new Joint Research Centre (JRC) site in Seville! This landmark event marked a significant step forward for the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative, celebrating the launch of what will be the EU’s first net-positive emissions building.
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PALIMPSEST 2nd residential workshop in Łódź
From 24th to 28th May 2025, the CALL team and the PALIMPSEST project consortium gathered in Łódź, Poland for the 2nd Residential Workshop with artist and designer Mona El Batrik.
Read moreIMMACCHINARIUM launched in Milan for PALIMPSEST
Cascina Biblioteca, Via Casoria, 50, 20134 Milano
What if a river could heal itself — and art could make the impossible visible?This is the premise behind the ACQUA LAMBRO project by artist duo gethan&myles, which imagined the Lambro River as both a site of care and an agent of self-restoration.
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PALIMPSEST in the limelight of Osservatorio Lambro Lucente
The tone was given from the start during Osservatorio Lambro Lucente's meeting last week. As Dario Kian expressed: creativity and art can carry important messages, and this one was clear. Rivers need our dialogues, attentiveness and attention…put simply, they need our care!
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PALIMPSEST talks at Milan Design Week: exploring the synergies between artistic practice and urban studies
From April 7–11, 2025, during Milan Design Week, PALIMPSEST hosted a series of public talks and artistic events at Politecnico di Milano, offering audiences the opportunity to explore the intersections between artistic actions and urban studies.
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Acqua Lambro: the “impossible idea” presented at Politecnico di Milano during Design Week
During Milan Design Week 2025, was officially presented the artistic project Acqua Lambro to the city of Milan. The artwork conceived by the British-Irish duo gethan&myles and piloted by PALIMPSEST was revealed to the public in the open spaces of the Leonardo Campus at Politecnico di Milano.
Read morePALIMPSEST talks, during Milan Design Week 2025
Edificio 11B Via Ampère - Campus Leonardo - Politecnico di Milano
ACQUA LAMBRO is an artistic work built around an “impossible idea”: transforming the Lambro River’s water, one of Europe’s most polluted rivers, into a prestigious mineral water. It merges speculative design and environmental activism into a situational and utopian work of art.
Read morePALIMPSEST presents Acqua Lambro during Milan Design Week 2025
Edificio 11B Via Ampère - Campus Leonardo - Politecnico di Milano
ACQUA LAMBRO is an artistic work built around an "impossible idea": transforming the Lambro River's water, one of Europe's most polluted rivers, into a prestigious mineral water.
Read moreThree Rivers’ Tales: Encounters at the Art-Research Interface
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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