Fabiola Fiocco, Giulia Pistone

Giulia Pistone is a contemporary art curator interested in practices at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and domestic space. Giulia holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2015, she co-founded curatorial ANGL Collective, a curatorial collaboration producing exhibitions and projects. Fabiola Fiocco is a contemporary art curator and museologist. Her core interests are architecture and biopolitics, and sexuality. Fabiola holds an MA in Museology from Reinwardt Academie in Amsterdam and an MA in Art History from Università Roma Tre in Rome. In 2017, she initiated homeawayfromhome, an open-ended online platform reflecting on home, dwelling and belonging.

Good Content vs Good Architecture: Where Does ‘Instagrammability’ Take Us? - Featured Image — Alexis Christodoulou, out of office reply, 2017, 3D rendered artworks. Courtesy of the artist.

Social media is changing urban planning, facilitating the shift from a functional understanding of design to a formal and commercial one. Behind the friendly veneer of spaces conceived as sets for social media content, complex systems of surveillance are being tested and developed. The built environment turns into an attraction, populated not by citizens but rather by users who feel the need to self-document their lives. Public space disappears under the lack of agency and collective use, becoming a stage on which bodies move according to predefined rules and choreography.

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Good Content vs Good Architecture: Where Does ‘Instagrammability’ Take Us?

Fabiola Fiocco, Giulia Pistone