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Dal 17 al 21 febbraio 2025, presso il Dipartimento di Architettura (aule Studio B2), si terrà il workshop dal titolo "Rome in the Tiber".
Rome in the Tiber | Dilip da Cunha with Ilaria Maurelli and Annalisa Metta, University of Roma Tre and with Joe Bondi, TA University of Pennsylvania | Weitzman School of Design
17-21 february 2025 Dipartimento di Architettura | aule Studio B2 Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi, 10 - Roma | ex-Mattatoio
ROME IN THE TIBER is the title of the workshop led by Professor Dilip da Cunha (Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design) and Professor Annalisa Metta (Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University). There are two Romes: Rome on the banks of the Tiber and Rome in the Tiber. In the first Rome, Tiber is a flow of water between two drawn lines on the earth surface from the Apennine mountains to the Tyrrhenian Sea. In the second Rome, Tiber is an all-consuming wetness that hydrologists structure in the water cycle, scientists describe as the critical zone, and ancients called Oceanus. If we know the first Rome for its pioneering past and its past-filled present, we need to know the second Rome urgently for a warming future that threatens the earth’s surface and line separating land from water with erasure and chaos. How do we experience, understand, and design this second Rome?
Among the scheduled activities, Dilip da Cunha will give the lecture
Ocean of Wetness
17 February 2025 | 5.30 pm Dipartimento di Architettura | aula Nervi Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi, 10 - Roma | ex-Mattatoio
Dilip da Cunha teaches Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he has taught at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, and Harvard University. He is partner of Mathur / Da Cunha (Link identifier #identifier__34889-1https://www.mathurdacunha.com/). He is author with Anuradha Mathur of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001); Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006); Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009); and editor of Design in the Terrain of Water (2014). His most recent book, The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. The book has received the 2020 ASLA Honor award and the J.B. Jackson Book Prize. In 2017, da Cunha was a joint recipient of a Pew Fellowship Grant, and in 2020 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2021, Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha were Mercedes T. Bass Landscape Architects in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. In 2017, Mathur and Da Cunha initiated a design platform called Ocean of Wetness (Link identifier #identifier__19058-2https://www.mathurdacunha.com/ocean-of-wetness) directed to imaging and imagining habitation in ubiquitous wetness rather than on a land-water surface. Ocean of Wetness was part pf the exhibition Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics (2020-2022), at the ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (Link identifier #identifier__58683-3https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2020/05/critical-zones).
