The Mediterranean garden is a space of cultivation, culture, and care, capable of preserving biodiversity while activating practices of social cohesion and territorial resistance. The Parco della Favorita in Palermo represents a stratified system in which nature and artifice, design and spontaneity, have coexisted for centuries thanks to a sophisticated water infrastructure.
The Summer School Favourite’s Waters explores the contemporary role of this peri-urban garden as a reservoir of water&care practices, through mapping, archi-botanic surveys, and collaborative design interventions conceived as replicable prototypes for addressing the future ecological challenges of Mediterranean cities. Over the course of the week we will wander around the City, its natural reservoirs and cultural spaces to explore the relationship between water and common spaces for conviviality.
The Summer School Favourite’s Waters explores the contemporary role of this peri-urban garden as a reservoir of water&care practices, through mapping, archi-botanic surveys, and collaborative design interventions conceived as replicable prototypes for addressing the future ecological challenges of Mediterranean cities. Over the course of the week we will wander around the City, its natural reservoirs and cultural spaces to explore the relationship between water and common spaces for conviviality.
Mediterranean garden
We will be conducting sitework at La Favorita garden in Palermo while collective work is based in Teatro Garibaldi hosted by local association Fondazione Studio Rizoma
Speculative design
The school aims to learn from the traditional pioneering hydric systems of the mediterrenean gardens to produce spectacle design and debate the role of water as a social, cultural and enviromental device
Collective work
A common research guided through the experience of Flavia Saggese and Wunder collective, spiced up by our guest’s lectures and supported by local associations background
Sicilian summer
The summer school consists of 5 days of group work, starting from arrival date on July 5th to final conclusion on July 11th