Alta Langa is hosting for the fourth consecutive year the activities organized by Interfaces, the design studio of the first-year master’s program in Architecture for Sustainability at Politecnico di Torino, entitled Bormide. Ecologies and Practices of a River.

More than 50 international students from Politecnico, together with faculty and researchers, will be engaged in moments of explorations, data collection, interviews and dialogue with local communities, in order to reflect on the future of the territories linked to the river and the valleys.

The objective is to answer two questions:

• How is the relationship with a river changing—long a terrain of conflict over environmental pollution—in the face of new forms of naturalness?
• How is the relationship of inhabitants with the valley roads changing—once territorial and social infrastructures connecting services and local hospitality facilities, today largely abandoned or underutilized?

The initiative, organized with the support of Parco Culturale Alta Langa APS and the Unione Montana Alta Langa, will involve several municipalities along the course of the river and the provincial road SP 439.

Event

The first appointment is at 6:30 PM on Friday, October 16 at the Filanda di Monesiglio for the meeting Ultraterritorial Explorations. Account of the Practices of the Cult(r)ural Outpost *, laboratory and collective Habitat — with Federico Poni and Enrico Tarò.