Wednesday 13 April 6-8 pm CET

online meeting in Italian
with Rita Elvira Adamo, Ilaria Bussoni, Ilenia Iengo, Ilaria Mazzoleni, Miriam Tola

Io canto e la montagna balla is a multi-voice conversation that is part of the public programme of the exhibition Le 3 ecologie. The dialogue, moderated by Marta Federici, Assistant Curator at MACTE, takes the form of an online meeting involving philosopher and curator Ilaria Bussoni, researchers and activists Ilenia Iengo and Miriam Tola, architects Ilaria Mazzoleni, founder of the NAHR Nature Art Habitat project, and Rita Elvira Adamo, part of the La Rivoluzione delle Seppie. The speakers are invited to share their experiences and research, to reflect together on the connection between bodies and territories and on the multiple meanings and implications of the interdependencies that bind us.

Io canto e la montagna balla is a novel written by Irene Solà (Blackie Edizioni, 2020), which offers a choral narration of a small village in the Pyrenees: in the story, it is not only women and men who speak, but also a roe deer, clouds, ghosts and the mountain.

The online meeting aims to multiply the perspectives of observation and broaden the view beyond the human, trying to focus on some concepts and key words, such as environmental justice, care, reparation, that can help us to reread the ecological crisis with crosswise gazes.

Rita Elvira Adamo graduated in Architecture in 2018 at the London Metropolitan University. She is a PhD student at the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, in co-supervision with LMU. She has worked at the studio of Norman Foster in London and Santiago Calatrava in Zurich. She curated the exhibition Architettura Invisibile (2017) in Rome at the Carlo Bilotti Museum and the exhibition School / Work in London (2017) at the Bank Gallery. In 2016 she co-founded the Rivoluzione delle Seppie, an experimental cultural movement that, starting from the knowledge of small municipalities, proposes examples and models of cultural and social reactivation of marginal rural areas.

Ilaria Bussoni trained as a philosopher who deals with the relationship between ecology and aesthetics. For the publishing house DeriveApprodi she edits the habitus series, dedicated to agri-ecologies, landscape and taste. Between 2017 and 2020, she curated some contemporary art exhibitions on these topics at the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna in Rome. She collaborates with the Master Environmental Humanities at Roma3 University and carries out a PhD in Ontology and Aesthetics of Landscape at the FISSPA Department of the University of Padua.

Ilenia Iengo is a PhD student in Feminist Political Ecology at the Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability of ICTA-UAB within the WEGO-ITN project. Co-coordinator of the Toxic Bios environmental justice storytelling project at the Environmental Humanities Lab at Stockholm University of Technology, her research and activities move on coalitions between transfeminist movements and for environmental justice as embodied and prefigurative politics. With the workshop Ecologie Politiche del Presente she is co-curator and author of Trame.

Ilaria Mazzoleni is an architect, author, educator and founder of IM Studio Milano/Los Angeles and of Nature Art e Habitat - NAHR. Her conceptual work in the field of sustainable architecture and biomimicry has been published internationally. Ilaria has been a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and at CalArts in Los Angeles. Her research focuses on biomimicry, in which nature's processes and functions inspire innovation in architecture and design. Her book Architecture Follows Nature - Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design is published by CRC Press. Since 2015 she has been coordinating NAHR together with an international committee.

Miriam Tola teaches Environmental Humanities at the University of Lausanne. She works on cultural studies and feminist political ecologies. With Maddalena Fragnito she edited the book Ecologie della Cura (Orthotes, 2021). She has published numerous articles in international journals including South Atlantic Quarterly, Feminist Review and Feminist Studies. She is on the editorial board of the journal Environmental Humanities. She has taught at John Cabot University in Rome and Northeastern University in Boston. She has worked as a journalist and documentary producer in Italy and in the United States.