for the first time during Industria Festival, an architectural festival, organised by the architectural associationof Modena, that promotes the reactivation of former industrial sites in the region Emilia-Romagna (IT).
In the workshop we invited the participant to explore a former industrial area in the harbour of Ravenna by taking the point of view of a pioneer plant. Through embodied research, observation and sensorial mapping, the participants surveyed the space starting from the margins, exploring how more-than-human entities re-inhabit abandoned spaces, and how life develops where our systems fail. The workshop was intended as a training for architects to envision new design possibilities that go beyond the human experience, and as a tool to understand how designing for different entities can promote the development of climate resilient spaces. However it was made in a way to be accesible also to citizens who want to actively engage with urban strategies towards multi-species living and flood risk adaptation. Both architects and citizens joined the workshop, teaming up to map the margins and the life they contain.
The partecipants enjoyed the possibilities of exploring nature and designed related themes in an engaging and participatory way and simultaneously discovered a precious former industrial site that would not normally be accesible. The theoretical framework of the workshop was introduced by a seminar in the previous month, and it was follwed by an open space technology to approach possible policymaking routes towards community based and flood resilient urban spaces, a fundamental topic, especially after the Emilia-Romagna floods of 2023