Da marzo a giugno ad Arvier il gruppo di lavoro di Studi sul Qui ha lavorato alla mappatura profonda del territorio.

Il 6 giugno alle 20 un incontro in piazza con proiezioni, fotografie, installazioni e conversazioni in un’atmosfera conviviale.

È arrivato a Avier (AO) il progetto itinerante “Studi sul Qui”. Nato nel 2019, dopo una prima edizione in Valle d’Aosta e successive edizioni in piccoli centri di varie regioni di Italia, è arrivato ora alla sesta Stagione, con un ritorno in regione. Il progetto prevede la presenza di un gruppo di ricercatori, professionisti e artisti italiani e internazionali impegnati nella realizzazione di una mappatura profonda del comune. Per la costruzione della mappa, il gruppo di lavoro lavorerà sul campo osservando, parlando, camminando e costruendo un racconto composito e stratificato del presente di Arvier.

Nel 2026 Studi sul Qui arriva alla sua sesta stagione e si sta svolgendo a Arvier. Tra marzo e giugno, un gruppo di tredici persone impegnate nella ricerca, nell’arte e nelle professioni sta lavorando sul territorio. L’obiettivo è realizzare una mappatura nella quale troveranno spazio racconti, immagini, rappresentazioni, suoni, etc.

I primi risultati saranno presentati a “lavori in corso” il 6 giugno, in un evento aperto, gratuito e conviviale. In quella occasione artiste/i, ricercatrici/ori e professioniste/i condivideranno un primo risultato della mappatura. La Cappella di Saint-Joseph ad Arvier e la piazza antistante saranno trasformate, ospitando una istallazione che include progetti fotografici, sonori, filmici, grafici.

Il gruppo di lavoro multidisciplinare è composto da: Valentina Ascione (progettista grafica), Marco Boffi (psicologo sociale), Tobias Boos (geografo), Matteo Capobianco / Ufocinque (street artist e scenografo), Natalie Norma Fella (artista sonora), Daniele Ietri (geografo e documentarista), Onofrio Magro (progettista grafico), Paolo Martelli (filmmaker), Eleonora Mastropietro (documentarista e geografa), Greta Papaveri (designer), Daniela Salvucci (antropologa), Alessio Zemoz (fotografo), Dorothy Louise Zinn (antropologa), Piero Zizzania (architetto e fotografo).

Studi sul Qui – Stagione 6 è sostenuto da “Agile Arvier. La cultura del cambiamento”, in partnership with the University of Milan and the Free University of Bolzano, and in collaboration with theAssociazione La Fournaise

PNRR – M1.C3.INV.2.1 “ATTRACTIVENESS OF VILLAGES – LINE A”, ADMINISTERED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE

PILOT PROJECT “AGILE ARVIER: THE CULTURE OF CHANGE,” FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION – NEXT GENERATION EU (CUP F87B22000380001)

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN THE WORKSHOP IS NOW OPEN

LA SCADENZA PER CANDIDARSI E’ STATA ESTESA A LUNEDì 06.04.2026

(In the Workshop) we critically review our fieldwork methods, starting with concrete problems

Studi Sul Qui brings the Deep Map Hub to Arvier, a center dedicated to critically examining territories and their narratives.
The first activity of the Deep Map Hub will be theOfficina, in which we will critically review our fieldwork methods, starting with concrete problems. The aim is to review and repair – just as happens in a workshop – of methods and tools that are now commonly used in public discourse and in professional work in local communities.

The Workshop is designed as a place for work and comparison dedicated to the ways in which people think and act in non-metropolitan areas. The “Studi sul Qui” group will make its tools available to those who live, work, or study these areas. It will be an open workshop where participants can review and repair—just as one would in a workshop—the tools used to work in these areas.

The Workshop will open in May and is aimed at people who work in the public sector or in local development, who study regions at all levels and across various disciplines, and who are involved in communicating or representing regions through all forms of art and creativity.

La call per la partecipare è aperta fino al 06.04.2026.

The Workshop invites prospective participants to share a real problem: research to be turned into a project, a work to be contextualized, a regional policy challenge to be tackled, and much more. We will study and tackle the issue together at the workshop bench.

For more information, visit the dedicated page

or download the informational PDF

The deep map hub Workshop is a project by Studi sul Qui sostenuto da “Agile Arvier. La cultura del cambiamento”, in partnership with the University of Milan and the Free University of Bolzano, and in collaboration with theAssociazione La Fournaise

deep map hub is conceived and coordinated by Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro

PNRR – M1.C3.INV.2.1 “ATTRACTIVENESS OF VILLAGES – LINE A”, ADMINISTERED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE

PILOT PROJECT “AGILE ARVIER: THE CULTURE OF CHANGE,” FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION – NEXT GENERATION EU (CUP F87B22000380001)

Starting February 24, the Arvier (AO) Public Library will host 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢 𝐒𝐮𝐥 𝐐𝐮𝐢: 5 Seasons on Display, an installation chronicling the first five seasons of SSQ’s fieldwork.

The installation is a modular project designed to adapt to different spaces and offer visual, photographic, and multimedia experiences. It explores the places the project has traversed and fosters a dialogue between regions based on parallel themes, contrasts, and free, poetic associations, inviting us to reflect together on what it means to inhabit contemporary territories.

We look forward to seeing you at the opening of the exhibition Tuesday, February 24, at 7 p.m.at the Arvier Municipal Library, Via Saint-Antoine 12 (AO).

The installation is open to the public free of charge on the library’s operating days:
tuesday 2 p.m – 6 p.m.
thursday 2 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.
friday 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Curated by Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro, with Luca Bertoldi and Alessio Zemoz; graphic and exhibition design: Studio ascionemagro and Marina Cinciripini; installation: Studio Grassi Design

PRIN 2022 PNRR Project “Deep mapping of crisis and transformation in non-metropolitan areas: representations, society, and territorial policies,” supported by the Ministry of University and Research under Mission 4 “Education and Research,” Component 2, Investment 1.1 of the PNRR, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢 𝐒𝐮𝐥 𝐐𝐮𝐢: 𝟓 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚 marks the beginning of a new journey of reflection on the territories that we will soon reveal.

Tobias Boos e Daniele , coordinano il panel dal titolo “Mapping Methods for and of Alternative Narratives and Futures in the Face of the Climate Crisis” alla Conferenza “Neue Kulturgeographie“ in Augsburg, Germany, dal 30 settembre al 2 ottobre 2025.

All’interno del pannel presenteranno il progetto Studi sul Qui e in particolare i risultati della stagione realizzata a Porto Tolle con un intervento dal titolo “Deep Mapping the Delta del Po Area”

Abstract sessione

Since at least the 1980s, human geographers and their colleagues from neighbouring disciplines, such as social anthropology and sociology, have used mapping techniques to make emerge and to visualise counter narratives and alternative stories to mainstream narratives on development. In the mainstream views, development is still frequently considered a foremost economic matter bound to quantitative, indicator-driven kinds of planification and governance practices in which maps are meant to consent discourses to a special aura of truth. Of course critiques on the power of maps are already well established in the field of critical cartography (Boris & Dammann, Eds., 2022).

The power of maps and critique on it is employed in techniques such as counter mapping (Peluso 1995), community mapping (Parker 2006), participatory mapping (Sletto 2015), parish mapping (King & Clifford 1985), and deep mapping (Boos, Ietri & Mastropietro 2022) to give voice to people in marginalised positions, to change views on areas conceptualised from planners of urban dwellers as peripheral, to elicit plural forms of knowledge, and to give non-humans a platform of visibility/audibility. Further, some of these techniques are applied in teaching activities (Schreiber 2022) to make students develop sensitivity to uneven power constellations and ecological matters. In their philosophical underpinning, they range between humanism and flat ontologies and mostly include artistic elements and aesthetic theories. Most of such mappings, which see the process of mapping as more important than the final map and try to avoid presenting maps as timeless fixes, show that they can contribute to outlining alternative perspectives on and futures of our planet and societies. Several of the mappings mentioned above, imply also a consistent fieldwork as part of their processing.

From June 9 to 20, researchers and artists will be in residence in Serrara Fontana (NA) for the in-depth mapping project “Studi sul qui” (Studies on the Here).

The traveling project “Studi sul Qui” (Studies on Here) arrives in Serrara Fontana. Launched in 2019, it is now in its fifth season, after a first edition in Valle d'Aosta and subsequent editions in small towns in various regions of Italy. The project involves a multidisciplinary group (researchers, artists, and professionals) from Italy and abroad who will spend a week creating a detailed map of the highest municipality on the island of Ischia. To construct the map, the people involved in the working group will proceed independently and as a group, observing the territory, conducting interviews, and meeting the population, in order to build a collective narrative about the present of Serrara.

The project is designed to be implemented in small towns. These places are generally underrepresented, struggle to make themselves heard, and find it difficult to generate narratives that transcend the local dimension. Often, the only existing narratives look backward, tending to emphasize historical dimensions, local identities, and traditions, with little regard for the present and even less for the future. Places like these are now included in the broad definition of Internal Areas, which, while useful in many ways, sometimes risks creating a homogenized vision that tends to hide differences and lump together territories that often have little in common.

In 2025, Studi sul Qui will reach its fifth season, which will take place in Serrara Fontana. Over the course of ten days (from June 9 to 20, 2025), a group of ten people involved in research, art, and various professions will work in residence in the area. Their goal will be to create a map that will include stories, images, representations, sounds, etc. The first results of the residency will be presented as “work in progress” on the evening of Thursday, June 19, at an event to which the entire community of Serrara Fontana will be invited. On that occasion, artists and researchers will share their first impressions.
The work will then continue in the coming months, during which the group will rework the material collected into a book dedicated to the initiative, supplemented by an online archive dedicated to all seasons of the project (www.studisulqui.it).

“Studi sul Qui” is a project conceived by Daniele Ietri, geographer and consultant, full professor at the Free University of Bolzano, and Eleonora Mastropietro, associate professor at the University of Milan.
The 2025 edition in Serrara Fontana is supported by the PRIN 2022 PNRR Project “Deep mapping crisis and transformation in non-metropolitan areas: representations, society, and territorial policies” supported by the Ministry of University and Research as part of Mission 4 “Education and Research,” Component 2, Investment 1.1. of the PNRR, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

The multidisciplinary working group consists of: Marco Boffi (social psychologist), Tobias Boos (geographer), Natalie Norma Fella (sound artist), Daniele Ietri (geographer and consultant), Peter Karl Kresl (economist), Paolo Martelli (filmmaker), Eleonora Mastropietro (documentary filmmaker and geographer), Daniela Salvucci (anthropologist), Alessio Zemoz (photographer), and Dorothy Louise Zinn (anthropologist).

Tobias Boos, Daniela Salvucci, Eleonora Mastropietro e Dorothy Zinn, coordinano il panel dal titolo “Writing and unwriting territories: participative, multimedia, and alternative methodologies” alla 17th international SIEF Congress presso University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, dal 3 al 6 giugno 2025.

Abstract:

How to “write” territories avoiding both objectifying reality and reproducing current stereotypes connected to both idealized self-representation as well as to external misrepresentation of “the other”? Who is entitled to produce a narrative on places and their inhabitants? How could we, as researchers, propose an understanding of specific locations and their sociocultural dynamics, starting from the inhabitants’ perceptions, but also contributing with our own independent and creative point of view?
This panel calls for “unwriting” and “rewriting” territories as an opportunity to discuss alternative methodologies that promote participative, multimedia, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, narrations, and critical writings of inhabited territories. It fosters a dialogue among ethnology, folklore, anthropology, geography, art, visual, and performative disciplines about the possibility of unwriting and rewriting in a different way the places that we all dwell in.
We take inspiration from those methodologies that attempt to produce unconventional and multimedia “writings” of inhabited territories, such as the deep mapping-method. This is a relatively “anarchic” practice based on collaboration between insiders and outsiders, beyond any hierarchy between experts and non, putting together inhabitants, scholars, and free-lance artists to rewrite places by unwriting preconstructed narratives as well as pejorative and stereotyped representations. We especially focus on those places that are often portrayed as “marginal,” “ugly,” or uninteresting, but also on those usually and uncritically described as “untouched,” or “idyllic,” or even “exotic.” We are eager to discuss with colleagues and practitioners interested in participative, multimedia, and multidisciplinary alternative methodologies to unwrite and critically rewrite territories.

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