Off

OFF is an academic gathering revolving around the recognised state of being off-focus.

Rather than renouncing knowledge, the blurred view encourages creative unease and the embrace of lateral questioning and permanent enquiry.

OFF collects random subjects and artefacts relating to architecture, urbanism and landscape, prividing material for debate.

MEMBERS

Elisa Bacilieri (UniRomaTre) / Federico Broggini (UniFe) / Silvio Cristiano (UniFi) / Fabrizio D’Angelo (UniRomaTre/UniFi) / Alessandro Delli Ponti (UniFe) / Silvia Farano (UniRomaTre) / Federico Marchese (Polito) / Ilaria Maurelli (UniRomaTre) / Emilia Nardella (UniRomaTre) / Sofia Nicoletti Altimari (UniRomaUno) / Giordana Panella (UniRomaTre) / Marco Ranzato (UniRomaTre) / Riccardo Ruggeri (Polito) / Valeria Volpe (UniRomaTre)

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INDEX

DISRUPTION

Monteverde Goes Down / The Construction Site of Imagination / Urban Disruptions as Laboratories for Innovation / Resurgence / The Story of Krater

ENERGY

Positive Energy Districts / Paesaggio Elettrodomestico / Cena Elettrica

SOIL

Asphalt Soils

BIOCLIMATIC

Frigidarium / Alfresco / Spazio Pubblico e Nuove Alleanze / Microclimatic Snapshopts / Ostiense Bioclimatica / Marciapiede Fresco / Borgofresco / Frigidarium

CONSTRUCTION SITE

Roma Cantiere Eterno / Trace / Cantieri Istantanei

FOOD

Convivio dell’Abbondanza

URBAN-RURAL

No–City FossileFertile

CARTOGRAPHY

Amphibious Cartoghraphies

SPATIAL JUSTICE

Reframing Spatial Justice / Eccedenza

SOIL

Summer school NO-CITY 2025 Charleroi: Fossile Fertile

MISCELLANEOUS

2025 / Research - pedagogy / Charleroi, Belgium

Charleroi, historically one of Europe’s key industrial hubs, developed as a coal and steel powerhouse within the emerging conceptual framework of the so-called ‘Fossil Crescent’. This region, stretching from northern England through Belgium, Germany, and into Poland’s Silesian basin, was shaped by the extensive extraction of coal over centuries. Fertility and fossility are central to this NO-CITY Summer School exploration. Here, fertility is not limited to its agricultural sense but refers to the capacity of a post-extractivist landscape to be reimagined, reintegrated, and transformed. What forms of fertility emerge in the wake of industrial activities? If fossility has supported a fertility that has been quickly exhausted, how can we consider the fertility of the Charleroi region in light of the material legacy of fossil?

Amphibious Cartoghraphies

MISCELLANEOUS

2022-2025 / Video Installation / Venice, Italy

To broaden the perspective on Gaia's deep time and investigate the fluid dynamics that continuously hybridize sea and land, five amphibian cartographies of the central Mediterranean area are proposed, capturing the oscillating boundary between the emerged and the submerged. Each map observes distinct elements which, through their own specificity, make the demarcation of Terræ Aquæ fluid by employing different exposure and observation times.