Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity: Immerse - A Submerged Map to Reveal Hidden Connections Between Water and Anthropic Life in Genoa

Maria Pina Usai; Juan López Cano; Avital  Barak

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/16880

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Maria Pina Usai DICAAR, University of Cagliari https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4730-7398

Maria Pina Usai is a Ph.D. architect, independent researcher and curator. Her research deals with the dynamics of instability of sea-related landscapes and investigates the coast as a paradigm of contemporary transformations, with a transdisciplinary approach crossing art, science and community engagement. Founder of U-BOOT Lab and MEDSEA Foundation, she has collaborated with the Coastal Conservation Agency of Sardinia and is artistic director of Zones Portuaires Genova and Tunèa.
Juan López Cano DAD, University of Genoa

Juan López Cano is an art historian, architect and PhD graduate. He has been part of Orizzontale studio since 2010. He collaborated with One Works Milan and worked for Doctors Without Borders. He combines his professional activities with academic and publishing activities (vuoto.xyz). His first monograph, ‘Urbanità Spontanee’ was published by LIBRIA in 2020.
Avital Barak IFILNOVA, Nova Institute of Philosophy Lisbon

Avital Barak is an art curator and a scholar of movement and performance. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions based on research, public events, and leading transdisciplinary research groups. In the last decade, she curated solo exhibitions and group exhibitions based on research in Israel and abroad and published articles in prominent journals and publications in Hebrew and English. She is a member of the Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity curatorial committee and the co-curator of the nomadic exhibition accompanying the project.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/16880

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Digital map, Genoa, Water, Infrastructures, Landscapes

Abstract

The focus of the research carried out by Zones Portuaires and Corpi Idirici for the digital map of Genoa is water. The map is broken down into the theme of the "immersed" with a dual meaning of "invisible underground or underwater'' due to it being submerged or forced, and of "invisible - unknown or hidden" as a result of it being abandoned or unused. The map tells the stories of a select number of noteworthy places along fresh and saltwater routes, land and maritime passages, stories made invisible by anthropogenic hyper-infrastructures and immersed in physical conditions that lack knowledge and accessibility. The phenomenon has been studied from a point of view that moves from the sea to the hinterland and vice versa using a transdisciplinary approach method of investigation and restitution that makes use of the hybridization between artistic practice and scientific research.

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