Workshop: 06 - 12.07.2026

Directors: Mansoureh Aalaii, Antoine De Perrot

Assistant: Michele Blaser

Registration for inhabitants: mail@transversal-territory.org

Registrations for USI Msc1 and Msc2 students open from 15.04.2026 until 11.05.2026

Screening of the film PIANURA (45’) at the Museum Vincenzo Vela, introduced by the museum director Antonia Nessi, followed by a discussion with professor João Nunes, Dr. med. Mansoureh Aalaii and Antoine de Perrot.

Pianura - Hallucinations and Living Space

In seven videos and three performances, the theme Pianura - the plain - is explored together with students and local inhabitants. Thoughts, perceptions, dreams, narratives and visions manifest as figures and dynamics - a territory with Imagination at its core.

We are pleased to invite you to the film screening and discussion of Transversal Territory 2025 on November 19 at 6:00 pm at the Academy of Architecture USI (Palazzo Canavée).

Interspaces, Exhibition at La Filanda, March 2025

Rete Donne and SIA, La Filanda, March 2025
with Francesca Arnaboldi, student-assistent; Bruna Ferrazzini, workshop participant; Samuele Cavadini, Mayor of Mendrisio; Francesca Luisoni, Vice-Mayor of Mendrisio

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Vernissage with Christoph Frank, Professor ARC-USI, Marco Poloni, Director of CISA Film Academy Locarno, Francesca Luisoni, Vice-Mayor of Mendrisio

Presentation of the exhibition "Interspaces" and discussion with Professor Carla Mazzarelli.

Exhibition "Interspaces", talk with Riccardo Blumer, architect, professor ARC-USI, Elisabetta Consonni, choreographer, researcher, mediated by Lorenzo Conti, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura. Organized by Isadora Piattaforma Danza, www.isadora.dance

Like the Transversal Territory laboratory itself, we also wanted the making of the book to be a field of experimentation. Therefore, we chose to develop it with the University of Arts and Design HEAD Genève as a graphic research project. Among the nine imaginative and original graphic design proposals of the students of Coline Sunier, Xavier Erni and their assistant Noémie Besset, the MAP BOOK by Lila Zoggagh and Noa Perez seemed the most coherent to the research we carried out in the Rime Brecch district.