June 8, 2018
JOURNEY ACROSS THE STRAIT I/2018
VIDEO SUMMARY

JOURNEY ACROSS THE STRAIT I
June 8, 2018
Journey across the Strait I – Reggio Calabria and Messina aboard the Caronte
A symbolic roundtrip journey between Reggio Calabria and Messina. The cities, the sea, the journey.
A dialogue on the unique and extraordinary condition of the strait, becoming aware of a place to understand its power, together with our fellow travelers: Luciano Marabello, architect and blogger, Francesca Oddo, journalist, Nello Calabrò, playwright and film maker, Fabrizio Ciappina, artist and architect, Giovanni Multari, architect, Francesco Messina, architect, Michelangelo Pugliese, landscape architect, Francesca Agostino, cultural operator, Salvatore Greco and Santo Marra, Calabrian architects.
REGGIO CALABRIA
June 8, 2018
Reggio Calabria – Palace of Justice
Together with Armando Neri, deputy mayor of the city of Reggio Calabria, engineer Antonio Sorrento, and two exceptional ambassadors, architect Santo Marra and landscape architect Michelangelo Pugliese.
The objectives, the potential and the recovery of measure that enable citizens to express themselves within the city.
GRIKO AREA
June 9, 2018
Griko area – The villages of Amendolea and Gallicianò
Accompanied by Domenico Guarna we discovered a magical and remote place: the village of Amendolea that overlooks the river of the Griko area. The cultural association “Il Giardino di Morgana”, of which Domenico is president, tries to keep the interest in the historic villages of the area alive by creating connections and guided paths to discover this amazing collector of history and heritage.
Rosi Rodá, president of the Greek study center, accompanied us in the discovery of Gallicianò, municipality of Condofuri in the Griko area. A small village in the Amendolea valley where an ancient language is spoken, an archaic Greek that marks a remote tradition and a heritage to be preserved and valued.
ACROSS THE STRAIT, FILANDA COGLIANDRO AND COSTA VIOLA
June 9, 2018
Across the Strait – Reggio Calabria seafront
Along the seafront of Cannitello, the architect Antonino Cogliandro tells us about the “passerella” ritual, the hunting of swordfish in the strait and the myth of Morgan le Fay.
Filanda Cogliandro – Villa San Giovanni (RC), Italy
The architects Antonino Cogliandro and Benedetta Genovese tell us about their work for the recovery of the old Fratelli Cogliandro textile mill. The recovery of a historic building that will have public functions and much more.
Costa Viola – The terraced lands and the city of Scilla
The agronomist Rosario Previtera tells us about the terraced territory on the Costa Viola.
Invisible Mediterranean(s)
8-9-10 June 2018

Each page opens a Mediterranean, describes something Invisible to the travelers. Each page, through words, drawings, photographs, works, horizons, imaginary, reality, takes us into a world, opens the door to a slow reflection on details, dreams, hands, traits, poems, desires, maps, hidden memories, emotions, wishes, dialogues.
We discover how in each of us there is an “imaginary realism” and/or an imaginary that feeds our own reality. Too often we do not talk about it, we do not put it in the foreground, we simply let the sanctioned and homologated reality make us respond as we are expected to.
Many think that to talk about architecture we only have to speak through the architecture or to establish ourselves through the approval of other architects, while we are more and more convinced that architecture speaks of those who think and/or realize it and that maybe, through it, we need to focus, at least for some time, on the human being and on his thought so that architecture may belong to the world.
It is not necessary, it is not mandatory and to someone it may even seem wrong, but when this happens it is magic and unique.
We are time.
Our matter is our time and by way of our time we narrate a world, our look at the world if we are not overwhelmed by it even in the soul.
Alfonso Femia






