The volume presents the work developed on the occasion of the 18th international architecture exhibition - Venice Biennale 2023 for the Egypt pavilion. NiLab is a laboratory for the knowledge and elaboration of ideas and projects along the Nile River, an emblematic opportunity for reflection on the theme of water in the more general context of climate change. Never as in Egypt, the presence of a waterway has been identified within the history of civilization, in its cultural, scientific, and humanistic aspects. Its extraordinary geographical dimension draws natural and man-made landscapes, feeds cities and productive systems, reserves and agricultural landscapes. Any alteration of the Nile River can cause a destruction of the millennial balance between living species and the historical and natural landscape, especially in an age where major territorial and productive transformations risk disturbing the established natural balance, causing entropy and degradation. The themes, corresponding to six landscape sections – Nature, Agro, Urbe, Infrastructure, Industry, Archaeology – were developed within eighteen areas of design intervention, identified for a common international comparison between Egypt and the planet. Together with Cairo’s Ain-Shams University, Faculty of Engineering (Egypt) and Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, dArTe Department (Italy), curators of the pavilion who have been collaborating for years in research and teaching activities, 24 international universities are invited to build NiLab, a laboratory in which, students, teachers and researchers discuss possible future scenarios along the river. The aim is to create a reflection on design strategies, as a contribution to major urban and landscape emergencies, in the general context of a contemporaneity that demands new reflections on the tools and languages of architecture from the project.
Il volume presenta il lavoro sviluppato in occasione della 18. Mostra internazionale di architettura - Biennale di Venezia 2023 per il padiglione dell'Egitto. NiLab è un Laboratorio per la conoscenza e l’elaborazione di idee e progetti lungo il fiume Nilo, occasione emblematica di riflessione sul tema dell’acqua nel contesto più generale dei cambiamenti climatici. Mai come in Egitto la presenza di un corso d’acqua si è identificata con la storia della civiltà, nei suoi aspetti culturali, scientifici e umanistici. La sua straordinaria dimensione geografica disegna paesaggi naturali e antropici, alimenta città e sistemi produttivi, riserve e paesaggi agrari. Qualsiasi sua alterazione può rappresentare una distruzione di un equilibrio millenario tra le specie viventi e il paesaggio storico e naturale, soprattutto, in un’epoca dove le grandi trasformazioni territoriali e produttive rischiano di stravolgere equilibri naturali consolidati, causando entropia e degrado. Le tematiche, corrispondenti a sei sezioni paesaggistiche – Nature, Agro, Urbe, Infrastructure, Industry, Archaeology – sono state sviluppate attraverso diciotto aree d’intervento progettuale, individuate per un confronto comune internazionale tra l’Egitto e il pianeta Insieme a Ain-Shams University of Cairo, Faculty of Engineering (Egitto) e Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento dArTe (Italy), curatori del padiglione, che da anni collaborano in attività di ricerca e didattica, 24 università internazionali sono invitate a costruire il NiLab, laboratorio nel quale, studenti, docenti e ricercatori si confrontano sui possibili scenari futuri lungo il fiume. L'intento è quello di creare una riflessione sulle strategie progettuali, come contributo alle principali emergenze urbane e paesaggistiche, nel contesto più generale di una contemporaneità che richiede al progetto nuove riflessioni sugli strumenti e sui linguaggi dell’architettura.
An Open Project Lab on the Nile / Tornatora, R. M.; Amaro, O.. - (2023), pp. 24-35.
An Open Project Lab on the Nile
Tornatora R. M.
;Amaro O.
2023-01-01
Abstract
The volume presents the work developed on the occasion of the 18th international architecture exhibition - Venice Biennale 2023 for the Egypt pavilion. NiLab is a laboratory for the knowledge and elaboration of ideas and projects along the Nile River, an emblematic opportunity for reflection on the theme of water in the more general context of climate change. Never as in Egypt, the presence of a waterway has been identified within the history of civilization, in its cultural, scientific, and humanistic aspects. Its extraordinary geographical dimension draws natural and man-made landscapes, feeds cities and productive systems, reserves and agricultural landscapes. Any alteration of the Nile River can cause a destruction of the millennial balance between living species and the historical and natural landscape, especially in an age where major territorial and productive transformations risk disturbing the established natural balance, causing entropy and degradation. The themes, corresponding to six landscape sections – Nature, Agro, Urbe, Infrastructure, Industry, Archaeology – were developed within eighteen areas of design intervention, identified for a common international comparison between Egypt and the planet. Together with Cairo’s Ain-Shams University, Faculty of Engineering (Egypt) and Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, dArTe Department (Italy), curators of the pavilion who have been collaborating for years in research and teaching activities, 24 international universities are invited to build NiLab, a laboratory in which, students, teachers and researchers discuss possible future scenarios along the river. The aim is to create a reflection on design strategies, as a contribution to major urban and landscape emergencies, in the general context of a contemporaneity that demands new reflections on the tools and languages of architecture from the project.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.