There are no miracle recipes, no manuals to be followed meticulously, and everyone recognizes that the top-down approach has failed. Public authorities more often than not fail or struggle to find solutions to these challenges. At the same time, a global movement of active citizenship is researching, experimenting and testing new behaviors, new activities and new services for their communities.
Design plays a crucial role in this new game.
How do you involve the greatest number of citizens and public authorities in the process of enhancing your neighborhood in a long-term process?
How can we facilitate the emergence of new forms of civic leadership that serve the Community?
What are the tools that can facilitate experiments to enhance under-utilized spaces or improve the quality of public spaces?
The second edition of Countless Cities will address these challenges through three new themes: Housing Diversity, Good Business, and Parkifying the Future.
HOUSING DIVERSITY
Explores various types of individual and collective living for people with different means and in different stages of their lives.
GOOD BUSINESS
Researches jobs and trades, especially regarding manual labor, that are able to fuel passion, territoriality and durability. Looks in particular at the social entrepreneurship commitment in finding innovative solutions that respond to social, environmental, economic and cultural challenges.
PARKIFYING THE FUTURE
Investigates new strategies to implement an education to the vegetal world, by re-constructing a new relationship between People and Plants and promoting the depaving of portions of the city to improve the quality of life of citizens.
Spontaneous living space
Curated by Corinna del Bianco
The Five Senses of the Future
Manuela Catania - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
In-Mobility: Tanger\Redeyef\Irbid
Fanny Bouquerel with Yagoutha Belgacem, Amina Mourid, Safi Adnan and Marco Scarpinato
Napoli ri-cuntata
Curated by Teresa Alfieri
The community-driven city
Alberto Squizzato - ULB- Université libre de Bruxelles
Very Bangkok, In the City of the Senses
Philip Cornwel-Smith
Chorizo, villa Miseria and Barrio 31
Davide Vero
Jubail Mangrove Park
Andrea Bartoli with the special participation of Lorenzo Conti
Urban Jungle
Curated by Valerio Barberis - Assessore all’Urbanistica del Comune di Prato, Co-curator Corinna Del Bianco
It’s not for all, it’s not for us
Curated by Andrea Bartoli
Villaggio Eni. Un piacevole soggiorno nel futuro
Davide Maffei
Gente Colaborativa
Curated by Hugo Díaz Cordero
EL MUI - Museo Urbano Interactivo (Museo Tecnológico de Monterrey)
Curated by Emilio S. Leo
Dilli Chalo
Co-curated by Giulia Ambrogi and Alessandra Arpino
St+art India Foundaton
Eye on Tirana
Iraci Architetti
Gradi di Incertezza (Photo: Andrés Salazar, 2020)
GIT Galeria Itinerante + Escuela de Arquitectura Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, curatela e organizzazione Alessandro Grossi
Cosmopolis Palermo
Curated Maurizio Carta - Augmented City Lab Università di Palermo
Trades of Cultural Capital A Caracas Narrative of Movements, Ecologies and Urbanities
Project led by Alejandro Haiek in collaboration with Luis Pimentel and Xenia Adjoubei. Audio visual: Alvaro Leon. Computational Design: Tomas Mena, Osmin Avalos
I segni della rinascita
Contenuti a cura di Comune dell’Aquila, USRA, Accademia di Belle Arti, Università dell’Aquila, Gran Sasso Science Institute Enti sostenitori Comune dell’Aquila, USRA (Ufficio Speciale della Ricostruzione dell’Aquila), in collaborazione con ANCE L’Aquila (Associazione nazionale costruttori edili)
Mulka - a story from remote Australia
Curated by Miriam La Rosa for Agency
Project by Lemonot
Winner of 2021 Open Call
Site specific project by Michele Lombardo
Curated by
Santo Eduardo Di Miceli
With the participation of
Antonio Jorge Cerejeira Fontes
Fernando Matos Rodrigues
Carlo Colloca
Site specific project by Alfonso Siracusa Orlando
Urban Regeneration Stories
The Active Citizens of San Ferdinando, Calabria
Main Curator: Graziella Trovato
in collaboration with Mariagrazia Leonardi and Luis Moya.
Supported by the Madrid Government with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Excellence Programme for Professors V Pricit.
February 2021
Call for volunteers
Countless Cities wants you! We are looking for passionate volunteers to set up the exhibitions, help to manage visits and access to the Biennial. If you would like to apply, please send your CV and covering letter to farmculturalpark@gmail.com
8.03.2021
Countless Cities received the Human City Design Award by the Seoul Design Foundation
Farm Cultural Park Countless Cities is the winner of the ‘Human City Design Award’. The prize is presented to designers or groups that have contributed to building a more harmonious and sustainable relationship between people and people, people and society, people and the environment, and people and nature by tackling urban environmental issues and by presenting a new vision through creative design.
A BIENNIAL INITIATIVE OF
FARM CULTURAL PARK
IN COLLABORATION WITH
QUID VICOLO LUNA / PALAZZO CAFISI
PROJECT PARTNERS
PUSH / OFFICINE TAMBORRINO / RADICE PURA / SCAFFSYSTEM / VELUX / PIANTE FARO / UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO / SCENARIO PUBBLICO COMPAGNIA ZAPPALÀ DANZA / DARCH PALERMO / CULTURAL WELFARE CENTER / ANALOGIQUE / LAPS ARCHITECTURE / ISPLORA
TECHNICAL SPONSORS
PEDRALI / BONUÈ / GEVA AZIENDA AGRICOLA F.LLI VITA
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
ASSEMBLEA REGIONALE SICILIANA / COMUNE DI FAVARA / CONSOLATO GENERALE USA DI NAPOLI
SUPPORTED BY
CULTURABILITY PROMOSSO DA FONDAZIONE UNIPOLIS
