CENTRO PECCI Prato

Call for Papers | SEEDS
submission deadline | 5th December 2022

Dear all,
the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci and the Urban Center of Prato city are pleased to invite you to the two days of discussion on the theme of Landscape Urbanism, 25 years after the first Chicago conference. As a Center for the arts we believe the landscape should be an increasingly place of imagination and comparison for the communities of today and tomorrow.
Director Stefano Collicelli Cagol

In this context, the Seeds program aims to highlight current research and practices in landscape and ecology as a conflict; how these are responding to the asymmetries of contemporaneity and the problems of civil and environmental rights; and how they are defining otherness as a source of design, aesthetics and codes. In particular, the Seeds program is pleased to announce the call for paper Seeds:
Beyond the rhetoric of the green and contemporary exploitation, the landscape is - in itself - an element of conflict. It is an alterity both considering the inhabited world and to the world of design. It questions new codes, aesthetics, tools, and vocabularies. It is therefore a probability. But the landscape is also otherness with respect to the inhabited world, it is a project that clarifies, reveals everything that instead the design world wants to mask, conceal, embellish, pacify. With this in mind, Seeds questions  the original and primary meanings of the landscape and of our way of inhabiting the Earth: it investigates the landscape as a detector of the world’s asymmetries and, at the same time, as design alterity.
Seeds aims to generate a multicultural vocabulary. Seeds’ call for papers invites students, researchers, and professionals to launch new words that will build or would like to build the landscape of the future. Words are like seeds and, as with pioneer plants, they are sprouts of a new language, of a new multilingual grammar. The call invites to identify a word in your native language and to describe it in 500 characters in an original artwork. The call welcomes submissions from all design disciplines and 40 selected submissions will be projected to a parallel session of the Seeds Symposium, at the Centro Pecci (January 2023).

Abstract deadline: 

5th December 2022

Email abstract:

seed@centropecci.it

The call for papers poster and authoring guidelines are attached here:

Editor Centro Pecci | Urban Center:
Mario Pagano
Curator Seeds program:
Elisa C. Cattaneo
Mario Pagano
Curator of Seeds call for paper:
Carlotta Olivari

Scientific Committee:
Marco Brizzi
Silvia Cangioli
Elisa C. Cattaneo
Emilia Giorgi
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli
Andrea Valzania