Day 4

The Planetary Household, Coronavirus and the Planetary Imaginary
Lydia Kallipoliti
Lydia Kallipoliti links Coronavirus with the planetary home and the future imaginary.
Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology and environmental politics. She is the principal of the ANAcycle thinktank, an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union in New York, and has taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, the Columbia University GSAPP and the Pratt Institute. She is the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds: Or, What is the Power of Shit and the 'History of Ecological Design' for the Oxford English Encyclopedia of Environmental Science.

Biocontrol and Infection: Conversation Between Lydia Kallipoliti, Andrea Bagnato and Ivan Lopez Munera
Lydia Kallipoliti, Andrea Bagnato and Ivan Lopez Munera
Ivan Lopez Munera and Andrea Bagnato in conversation with Lydia Kallipoliti on domesticity, biocontrol and infection.
Ivan Lopez Munuera is a New York-based scholar, critic and curator working at the intersection of culture, technology, politics and bodily practices in the modern period and on the global stage. Since 2015, he has been developing his dissertation on the architecture of HIV/AIDS at Princeton University. Andrea Bagnato is an architect and book editor.

The Possibility of and Island
Sofia Pia Belenky, Luigi Savio and Margherita Marri
Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, tells the story of a group of young people that escaped Florence during the black plague and took refuge together in the countryside of Tuscany. For Boccaccio, the suspension of time during the plague and the condition of isolation provided the literary expedient for a moment of general rethinking. As the stories of the protagonists follow one another, the images, relational structures and values of society that would otherwise be lost are reconstructed. Similarly, The Possibility of an Island is at the center of this global epidemic that we are experiencing and set within the same landscape of Boccaccio's text. Today, in this rare moment of suspension we find ourselves with the possibility of an island. Situated in Tuscany, a site with links to both Decameron and radical Italian design, we aim to reactivate the countryside as a space of transversal, collective and productive forces. The two-week Visiting School will develop an experimental episode that responds to the current condition by addressing issues such as isolation, transition and temporality. The workshop seeks to produce new tools, practices and rituals that reflect on this particular moment in time.
SOFIA PIA BELENKY is an architect from New York, USA based in Milan, Italy. She completed her BFA at Bard College in 2011 and continued her studies at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, Architectural Association and Strelka Institute. Sofia Pia works as a researcher and designer with Space Caviar in Milan, Italy and previously collaborated with a number of other offices in New York, London and Paris. Her work with Space Caviar uses built work, event and exhibition design, research, writing, and film as forms of an extended mode of architectural practice. LUIGI SAVIO is among the founders of (ab)Normal. During the past three years he has been collaborating with Baukuh in Milan (2016), and OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam (2016-2017), in which he mainly worked within the research unit AMO. Between 2018 and 2019 he was working together with Studio Folder in Milan, specifically for the set design of the XXII Triennale of Design “Broken Nature” curated by Paola Antonelli. He is currently collaborating with GRACE architecture office in Milan. MARGHERITA MARRI is an Italian architect based in Milan, she graduated with honors from the Politecnico di Milano where she currently works as a teaching assistant. Her master thesis Logistics Landscape: unveiling protocols is part of a wider research carried out with the research practice CAPTCHA that investigate the contemporary condition through the relation between architecture, technology and ecology. Together with CAPTCHA she has been part of the lectures series DON18 from Microsoft to Microdosing at ETH-Zurich and she curated for Milano Arch Week 2019 in the context of the XXII Triennale Milano/ Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival a series of panel discussion and the exhibition Machines of Loving Grace. She is currently completing, for a private client, the construction of a project in the Maremma countryside with the aim of joining the rural scenery to the artistic production. Her essays and articles have been published, among others, on Domus-Web and StrelkaMag.

QUARANTINE BOOK REVIEW 3
Nerma Cridge
Nerma Prnjavorac Cridge was educated at the universities of Sarajevo and Birmingham, the Bartlett and the Architectural Association. After participating in an Antarctic expedition, she became a Special Envoy to UNESCO in 1997.

SUMMER RE-SCREEN: What is Art Actually for?
Brian Eno

SUMMER RE-SCREEN: All Must Fall
Lesley Lokko