Preennale of Water 2024 (Preennale dell’acqua 2024) welcomes artists, architects, activists, writers, researchers, designers, planners and others to a transdisciplinary gathering in Naples, Italy. Together, they will imagine, discuss, create and design effective and durable responses to a range of local/regional and trans-national/global water issues.
Preennale will foster the renewal of our intimate and vital connection to water, the reuse of Naples’ ancient Greco-Roman underground water network to countervail global warming and urban heat islands; a bottom-up action to resurrecting the city’s communal water heritage; a communal reaction on water scarcity. Preennale curators will design urban water utopias, imagining new eco-cultural paradigms, reasserting water as Commons, and more. Under the umbrella of commoning, they will engage in a collaborative exchange, workshops, presentations, site tours, round table discussions, performances, community engaged art projects, music and other participatory practices giving back creative interventions in public space.
Cool City Design Lab (June 24-July 3)
Together with international architects and students, this lab will explore ways to reactivate the ancient aqueducts, cisterns, and fountains of Naples, to counteract urban heat islands created by the global warming. The lab will design how to bring up cool water from underground ancient infrastructure and create new communal spaces and public life that can further conjoin the existing organizations and people in Lanificio. We will begin with tours of the Complex of Santa Caterina in Formiello; the Centro Direzionale Business Centre; the Casa dell'Acqua in Volla; the Source of Acqua Ferrata at Chiatamone, to inspect how ancient and modern water systems, including underground aqueducts and cisterns. The lab will connect with other parallel programs of Prennale; lectures, roundtable discussions, music, with a special collaboration with participatory art projects by Commoning Lab. We will be guided by the principal of water as a common, a subject and not an object, with legal status of personhood, and nature, not natural resource, and the first ‘community’ and ‘state’ of human civilization.
Workshop Leaders: Dongwoo Yim (Hongik University, Seoul)—Kyong Park (University of California San Diego) + Marjetica Potrč (artist, Ljubljana)—Carla Langella (Federico II University, Naples)
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June 24, 2024 09:02 PMUntil
July 03, 2024 09:02 PMVenue
naples, italyAddress