program

2024

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Admission to all Biennale events is free without registration, while registration is required for some parallel events by e-mail to info@i2a.ch. Registration is required for lectures at the Stiftung Baukultur Schweiz Annual Congress.
Stiftung Baukultur Schweiz registration form

All speeches will be in the original language (Italian, English or French). There will be no simultaneous translation.


thursday

03.10

Baukultur back to the future: Stiftung Baukultur Schweiz Annual Congress

USI-ARC, Palazzo Canavée, Mendrisio

Congress

Congress

First part in collaboration with Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio (AAM)

upon registration through
stiftung-baukultur-schweiz.ch/baukultur


friday

04.10

Action: Transhumance

Walk

Walk

Back to a future co-habitat

Augustin Clément, Arianna Frascoli, Capucine Fouquin

with
Oliver Lucini and Alessandro Cominelli,


From Roveredo to the park of Villa Saroli


Baukultur back to the future: Stiftung Baukultur Schweiz Annual Congress

Consolato Generale d’Italia, Lugano

Second part in collaboration with the Istituto Internazionale di Architettura

upon registration through
stiftung-baukultur-schweiz.ch/baukultur


09.30

Welcome

Welcome

Gabriele Meucci, General Consul of Italy

Karin Valenzano Rossi, Head of Department of Safety and Urban Spaces, City of Lugano

Martino Colombo, Director of the Spatial Development and Mobility Division, Canton Ticino


10.00

Conference

Conference

Visioni territoriali

with Freek Persyn, Professor at the Department of Architecture, Head of the Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, ETH Zurich

speakers

Nicola Klainguti, Head of the Spatial Development and mobilit Section, Canton Ticino

Francesca Luisoni, ⁠Deputy Mayor of the City of Mendrisio, Head of the Department of Planning and Public Spaces

Nicola Navone, Architect and Deputy Director of Archivio del Moderno

moderated by
Matteo Moscatelli, Architect and lecturer at the Politecnico di Milano, Archi editor


11.00

Conference

Conference

Reciprocal Urban Design: The Prospect of Another History

with Tom Avermaete, Professor of History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zurich

Speakers

Ariane Widmer, Cantonal Urban Planner, Geneva

Enrico Slongo, Municipal Architect City of Freiburg

Andrea Felicioni, Director Planning, Environment and Energy Division, Mobility, City of Lugano


Closing Congress

Closing Congress

Carine Bachmann, Director of the Federal Office for Culture

Marina Carobbio Guscetti, Director of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Canton of Ticino

Alex Farinelli, National Councillor, member of the Transport and Telecommunications Committees CTT


Biennale svizzera del territorio

Consolato Generale d’Italia, Lugano

14.00

Opening

Opening

Back to the future

curated by Caspar Schärer, co-curator of the Biennale

with
Nelly Pilz, Call for Action selection committee and Matthew Phillips, winners of the Call for Action 2022


14.30

Introduction

Introduction

Call for Action presentation

Marc Frochaux, Co-curator of the Biennale

Alessio De Gottardi, Architect, Istituto internazionale di architettura


Recycling the future

curated by Tom Emerson, Call for Action selection committee, Architect co-founder of 6a architects, professor at ETH Zurich

with the Actions:

Recording utopias
Angelika Hinterbrander, Laura Margarete Bertelt 

Transhumance
Ariana Frascoli, Capucine Fouqin, Augustin Clément 

Soil Portraits
Stefan Breit, Uxía Varela 

Looping Wreath
Anton Krebs, Alicja Prusinska, Bartosz Bukowski, 

Zuzanna Siedlecka 

Gypsotechno
HPO, con Bill Kouligas, Samuele Bertoni, POL 100 


Hospitalités

curated by Vanessa Lacaille, Call for Action selection committee, Architect and landscape architect, co-founder of Le laboratoire architecture, visiting professor at Arc-Usi of Mendrisio

with
Valérie Rossier,  founding member of the association Fabbrica di Ospitalità, architecture student

Carla Jaboyedoff, architect, urbanist, Co-founder of the association KRAFT

with the Action:
Border-crossing
Thiago de Almeida, Gabriel Biselli, Guilherme Pianca, 

Priscilla Bellas 


17.00

Conversation

Conversation

Lugano sunset

curated by Vittoria Matarrese, Call for Action selection committee, Bally Foundation curator and director

with
Guillaume Aubry, artist and architect
Maxime Rossi, artist


17.45

Conversation

Conversation

Regards croisés

Sename Koffi Agbodjinou, architect, anthropologist and founder of the platform L'Africaine d'architecture

Cyril Veillon, Co-curator of the Biennale


Evening session

Parco Villa Saroli, Lugano

19.00

Opening

Opening

Actions exhibition vernissage

with

Roberto Badaracco, Deputy Mayor of the City of Lugano and Head of Culture, Sports and Events Department

Luigi Di Corato, Director of the Culture Division of the City of Lugano


Presentation of the selected Call for Action

with Marc Frochaux, Co-curator of the Biennale

Alessio De Gottardi, Architect, Istituto internazionale di architettura

Looping Wreath - Anton Krebs, Alicja Prusinska, Bartosz Bukowski, Zuzanna Siedlecka

Border-crossing - Thiago De Almeida, Gabriel Biselli, Priscilla Bellas, Guilherme Pianca

Notti future - Maria Clara Castioni, Roberto Zancan

Soil Portraits - Stefan Breit, Uxía Varela

At the tone, the time will be… - Flavio Maria Gorgone, Victor Müller, Pierre Musy

Transhumance - Augustin Clément, Arianna Frascoli, Capucine Fouquin

Bake to the future - Inés Ariza, Gerhard Bliedung, Maximiliano Ciovich

Punto di Rugiada - Joanna Lewanska, Walter Toccaceli

Recording utopias - Angelika Hinterbrandner, Laura Margarete Bertelt

Gypsotechno - HPO Collective


Aperitif curated by Officina del Gusto
Pop-up bar La Soleggiata and food–truck located in the park


20.30

Performance and DJ Set

Performance and DJ Set

Gypsotechno
DJ Architronic


saturday

05.10

Walking along the river - Spunti per il futuro del nostro territorio

Starting at 09:30

Walk

Walk

Spunti per il futuro del nostro territorio

curated by the International Institute of Architecture with the Department of Land Development Section DT and De Molfetta Strode Studio

arrival at Villa Saroli at 12:30 pm and lunch in the park.


Action: Recording Utopia

Parco Villa Saroli, Lugano

Streaming

Streaming

A Mobile Radio Studio for Collaborative Future Casting:
09.00 - 16.30


Children's workshop

Children's workshop

16.30 - 17.00


Action: Bake to the future

Laboratory

Laboratory

Bread workshop
09.00 - 12.00

14.00 - 17.00



Action: Border-crossing

Villa Saroli, Lugano

Children's workshop

Children's workshop

with the association Fabbrica di ospitalità

14.00 - 16.30


Afternoon session

Consolato Generale d’Italia, Lugano

14.00

Introduction

Introduction

Call for Pecha Kucha

Heike Biechteler, Co-curator of the Biennale


Presentation

Presentation

Fake Tales of TicinoEveryone is into weird stuff, Lydia Genecand

Moving LandscapesSelma Alihodžić Maerz

The reserveNatalia Petkova

Highwaytopia, The Anthropogenic MilieuAdrian Wetherell 

The cemetery’s digital turnStefania Rasile


Round Table

Round Table

Future Heritage

curated by Silke Langenberg, Pecha Kucha selection committee, Scientist and Architect, Full Professor for Construction Heritage and Preservation at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich

with Pecha Kucha authors


Presentation

Presentation

air your dirty laundry in publicindiana collective

Archaic texturesJan Henrik Hansen, Michel Kessler


Round Table

Round Table

Il corpo fragile nella città - Ieri, oggi, domani

curated by Sandro Cattacin, Pecha Kucha selection committee, Professor in sociology at the University of Geneva, President of the Think Tank Penser la Suisse

with
Fiorenza Gamba, Professor and anthropologist at the University of Geneva
Paolo Fusi, Professor for Architecture and Urban Design at the HafenCity Universität Hamburg

with Pecha Kucha authors


Presentation

Presentation

The village is our home, a love letter to the vita di paeseAnna Clocchiatti


Round Table

Round Table

Stages to Share

curated by Asli Çiçek, Pecha Kucha selection committee, architect, guest professor in Ghent University and associate professor in Hasselt university. 

with the author of Pecha Kucha and Action Bake to the future


Afternoon session

Consolato Generale d’Italia, Lugano

17.30

Round Table

Round Table

Quale futuro per il nostro territorio

Luciana Mastrillo, Head of the Office for the Master Plan, Ticino Canton
Francesca Pedrina, Architect and spatial planner and co-president of the Swiss Federation of Urban Planners FSU
Sergio Rovelli, Graduate Engineer ETH Zurich, planner REG A, Planidea
Paola Viganò, Architect and urban planner, professor at EPFL Lausanne and IUAV Venice
Ariane Widmer, Co-curator of the Biennale

moderated by
Barbara Camplani, Radio and TV journalist


Evening session

Parco di Villa Saroli, Lugano

18.30

Closure of the Bienniale

Closure of the Bienniale

Cyril Veillon, Co-curator of the Biennale


Aperitif

Aperitif

Aperitif curated by Officina del Gusto
Pop-up bar La Soleggiata and food–truck located in the park


21.00

DJ Set

DJ Set

DIA BEAT - Fishnet Collective


Action: Notti Future

Performance

Performance

Una pièce notturna tra i parcheggi di Lugano 

with the Action group Notti future 
Maria Clara Castioni, Roberto Zancan 

with the Department of Interior Architecture HEAD - Genève (HES-SO),

Alina Arshi e Jean-Daniel Piguet 

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