Human Habitat, (HU-HA) is an artistic research project that focuses on the human features of the city as the main habitat for our life. In order to obtain imaginations, designs and changes for the city, my question and strating point is: What makes us humans? Feelings, behaviours and practices represents, in my opinion the foundamental feature of our sociaetal being.
Meet, resist, reproduce, move, learn,believe;
Are some of the most important practices that makes us humans and that we will keep performing in the future in our habitat, but how? How this predictions can affect and change the city?
By reflecting on each of them, I intend to elaborate and idealise the way we are going to perform these practices in the future. I do this for a design scope but also for an artistic research of form, meaning and multilayered visual communication. The result will be a series of immersive paintings depicting cityscapes from a perspective point of view. Each perspective will represent an idealised version of a specific practice, that in a second stage will be “tested” in the real context of a city, which will be chosen for its features and adaptability to the topic. Therefore each practice will be represented by one city. The human practice I want to start with is: “Encountering”.
“Future Encounters” is the title of the pilot project to begin this research. The first stage of the research consists of gathering dreams, feelings and ideas of citizens, thinkers and intelllectuals. This will happen with a participatory and artistic performance of the Imaginarium. The contribution will be collected, taken into consideration for the implementation of the project. Lastly it will be exposed in a final exhibition, together with ta central piece representing: “Future encounters“ located and based on the selected city.
Considering the cities as places for meeting:
What is the value and meaning of the act of meeting?
How are we going to perform it in the future?
How are cities going to be affected by our changing behaviour?
HU-HA
Jan-June 2022
