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Matteo Vianello is a PhD, author, educator and researcher in landscape architecture from Università Iuav di Venezia. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Università di Genova and Venezia. His research explores alternative design approaches through ecology and landscape theory, investigating the aesthetics, programmes, and processes of post-capitalist territories.
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RPrimo Bollettino dei Ghiacciai Estinti.2023-6
BOcean as Ground. An Offshore Theory on Urbanisation.2024-6
RBeyond the line of Piave river. Architectures, Machines and Landscapes.2024
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Coastal Design and Other Extreme Environments2024
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Soil and Land. An alternative settlement ontology from the surface of the water.
2025
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Sailing the Farm. Three projects about ground and its politics.
2022
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Ground Beyond Soil. Spatial And Ecological Trajectories Behind Three Offshore Platforms Of The Adriatic Sea. 2022
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Sailing the Farm. Three projects about ground and its politics
2022
to the paperIn contexts like the Netherlands and the coastal cities of the United States, affected by complex food supply chains and land scarcity, architects have sought new profitable opportunities away from the land, addressing water as a surface for urban settlement. The architectural debate depicts water surfaces as a useful space: it offers a viable solution to the urban soil consumption; it could sustain and provide local food production directly within cities; it could perform urban land processes with greater flexibility and movement. The recent construction of the first floating dairy farm in the harbor of Rotterdam figures as one of the first, prototypical embodiments of this debate. Nevertheless, the urgencies and the narratives behind the project are not new. On the contrary, they descend from a series of countercultural and artistic projects that since the late seventies address water surfaces as a ground suitable for food cultivation. In the attempt to build up a genealogy of this narrative, three apparently disjointed projects will be investigated with the purpose to unfold different politics of the ground, starting from an urban towards an ecological perspective.
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