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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN THE WORKSHOP IS NOW OPEN
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(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
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.
Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietoro, with contributions by Tobias Boos, Daniela Salvucci, Paolo Martelli, Attila Faravelli, Dorothy Louise Zinn, Matteo Capobianco /Ufocinque, Melania Ruggini, Marco Boffi, Nicola Rainisio, Carlotta Colonna, and Alessio Zemoz
“Porto Tolle, Italy’s youngest land.” That’s how the town was introduced to us the first time we visited: new land, land that emerged as a result of the diversion of the Po River carried out by the Venetian Republic in the early 1600s, and later reclaimed land. A land divided into three parts by the river’s branches: cut in half by the Po di Venezia and bordered to the northwest by the Po di Maistra and to the southeast by the Po di Gnocca or della Donzella. Two permanent bridges and two others made of boats (one temporary) connect the three islands that make up the municipality. Eleven hamlets are scattered across these islands. Many numbers in this edition: eleven of us for six days to explore eleven hamlets located on three islands, some above and some below sea level. In the Delta region, this marks the fourth Season of Studies on the Here, a project for the in-depth mapping of Italian territories.
Year: 2025
Publisher: Mimesis Edizioni
Collection: Deep Maps/Mappe Profonde
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Firenze, 26-28 novembre 2025
Rappresentazioni geo-topografiche e dati geo-spaziali. Prospettive di un dialogo in evoluzione
Info e programma: https://aic-cartografia.it/convegni/convegno-annuale-aic-2025/
Saturday, October 25, Studi sul Qui arrives in Agnone (IS) at the conference “Beyond Community: Hybrid Practices of Mapping and Participation”
We will present the project, focusing in particular on our concept of the Deep Map.
ChatGPT ha detto:Meeting at 9:00 AM at Palazzo San Francesco, Agnone (Molise, Italy)
Here all the informations.
Saturday, October 18, Studi sul Qui arrives in Lecco at the Festival Immagimondo,
We will describe the project, focusing in particular on Season 3 – The Line.
The event entitled “The Line: A Journey Along the Uncertain Boundary Between Land and Sea” will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco.
Here all the informations.
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.
On Thursday, June 19, starting at 7:30 p.m., the final meeting of Season 5 took place, during which the working group presented the initial results of the in-depth mapping carried out in the area to the citizens of Serrara Fontana.
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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On Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 6:15 p.m., at the Conference Room of the “Bruno Salvadori” Regional Library in Aosta, the Studi sul Qui project will be presented.
The event is organized by the Italian Association of Geography Teachers, Valle d'Aosta section.
Daniele Ietri will be the guest of honor for the evening.
Presentation evening for the project, Studi sul Qui, which returns to Jovençan (AO), the location of the project's first season.
Program:
THE TALK STUDIES ON THE HERE SEASON 1+2+3+4 In-depth maps of the territories
THE BOOK SEASON 1+2 Presentation of the volumes
THE FILM DOCUMENTARY SCREENING “Ferro” by Alessio Zemoz
Hosting the evening:
Daniele Ietri, Eleonora Mastropietro, Paolo Martelli, Alessio Zemoz
With the partecipation of:
Rosa Anatriello, Stefano Belli, Tobias Boos, Alexine Dayné, Adele Picone, Francesco Rispoli, Daniela Salvucci, Paola Zaramella, Dorothy Louise Zinn, Piero Zizzania,
Friends of Studi sul Qui from:
Jovençan, Oppido Lucano, Porto Tolle
Comune di Jovençan, Sala Consiliare
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On December 6, 2024, Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro will hold a meeting to present the Studi sul Qui project, on the occasion of the release of the book recounting the second season of the project, as part of the ARINT second-level Master's degree program in Architecture and Design for Inland Areas and Small Towns at the Federico II University of Naples.
The meeting will be attended by Prof. Adelina Picone, coordinator of the master's program, and Prof. Francesco Rispoli, Scientific Council of the ARiNT Master's Program.
The following speakers will also participate:
Rosa Anatriello| ARiNT III Master's student and Piero Zizzania|PhD student, ARiNT V Master's student
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MAED M a t e r i o t e c a
P a l a z z o L a t i l l a o r e 1 4 : 3 0
Via Tarsia, 3 1
Strategies for inland areas and local development in non-urban territories: contexts, policies, and evaluation
Daniele Ietri 24.10.2024
Bressanone Academic Theological Study
Conference room: Room V, 1st floor, 5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m.
On Friday, November 15, 2024, starting at 10:00 a.m., at the Tomadini Nuovo headquarters (Via Tomadini, 30 – Udine), a conference will be held entitled: Deep Maps and Narratives of Territories. The project “Studi sul Qui” (Studies on Here) will present some of the results of the project “Studi sul Qui,” conceived by Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro and developed in several initiatives since 2017, with the aim of recounting the present of territories neglected by prevailing narratives.
The work is inspired by the concept of deep mapping: a thorough mapping of territories, carried out using artistic and scientific practices that focus on fieldwork.
The project is now in its fourth season and has so far visited locations in Valle d'Aosta, Basilicata, the Upper Adriatic coast, and Veneto. The third season, which produced a sort of photographic “diary-atlas,” also visited the coastal towns of Friuli Venezia Giulia from the mouth of the Isonzo to the mouth of the Tagliamento.
Introduction by Giorgia Bressan, associate professor of Geography at DIUM.
On the afternoon of Saturday, September 28, at the Sala della Musica in Porto Tolle, the initial results of the work carried out by the Studi sul Qui group were presented, and the new mural artwork related to the Porto Tolle project was inaugurated in Via Giordano.
A team of 11 professionals, ranging from the arts to the sciences, spent seven days collecting stories, images, representations, and sounds specific to Porto Tolle.
The work will continue over the coming months, during which time the group will compile the material collected into a book dedicated to the initiative, which will be presented in Porto Tolle in early 2025.
The study involved social psychologist Marco Boffi, geographer Tobias Boos, street artist and set designer Matteo Capobianco, musician Attila Faravelli, geographer and documentary filmmaker Daniele Ietri, filmmaker Paolo Martelli, geographer and documentary filmmaker Eleonora Mastropietro, art curator Melania Ruggini, anthropologists Daniela Salvucci and Dorothy Louise Zinn, and photographer Alessio Zemoz.
Studies This is possible thanks to the PRIN 2022 PNRR project “Deep mapping crisis and transformation in non-metropolitan areas: representations, society, and territorial policies,” funded 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.
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TITLE: Una settimana nel paese del Delta
TYPE OF INITIATIVE: Short residency
PERIOD: 23-29 september 2024
PLACE: Porto Tolle (RO)
PARTECIPANTS:
Marco Boffi – Social psychologist
Tobias Boos – geographer
Matteo Capobianco / @ufocinque – street artist and set designer
Attila Faravelli – musician
Daniele Ietri – geographer and documentarist
Paolo Martelli – filmmaker
Eleonora Mastropietro – geographer and documentary filmmaker @melania_ruggini – art curator
Daniela Salvucci – anthropologist
Alessio Zemoz – photographer
Dorothy Louise Zinn – anthropologist
PRIN 2022 PNRR Deepmap Project – “Deep mapping crisis and transformation in non-metropolitan areas: representations, society, and territorial policies”
CUP I53D23006750001
codice progetto P2022E22CX
European Union funding – NextGenerationEU – M4C2 —Investment 1.1
May 31, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
Cineteatro Obadiah,
Oppido Lucano (PZ)
RETURN TO THE RESIDENCE IN OPPIDO LUCANO
May 29, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
Porticoes of Palazzo Annunziata,
Matera
The second volume of “Studies on the Here” is now available!
Studi sul Qui (Studies on Here) is an experimental project conceived by Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro and developed in several initiatives since 2013 by the collective of artists and researchers La Fournaise and the deep map lab of the University of Bolzano. The work is inspired by the concept of deep mapping: a detailed mapping of territories, created using a variety of tools and diverse skills. The aim of Studi sul Qui is to recount the present of territories neglected by prevailing narratives, places that often ‘do not matter’. In the summer of 2022, the authors of this volume carried out a deep mapping experience in a research residence: a week of intense work in the field in Oppido Lucano in Basilicata.
On June 8, 2023, at the Department of Humanities – Disu of the University of Calabria, a meeting organized by Prof. Giannantonio Scaglione was held, during which Daniele Ietri discussed some of his research activities, including the Studi sul Qui project.
Studies on Qui will be present at the Neue Kulturgeographie 2023 conference, which will take place in Halle (Saale) from January 26 to 28, 2023.
Tobias Boos, Daniele Ietri, and Eleonora Mastropietro will participate in the conference with their contribution “Deep map and Short Residence: Artistic-Academic Research in non-urban territories.”
From July 4 to 9, 2022, “Studi sul Qui – deep map lab” in residence in Oppido Lucano, Potenza.
During the week, the group, composed of geographers, anthropologists, architects, photographers, and documentary filmmakers, will work closely with the inhabitants of Oppido Lucano in search of stories, both big and small, and territorial data. Sabato 09 luglioAt the end of the residency, there will be an immediate return to the community, where the impressions and stories gathered during the work will be presented in various forms. The group will meet the population starting at 7 p.m. in Piazza del Paschiere.
"Studi sul Qui" is a project created by Daniele Ietri, professore ordinario presso la Libera Università di Bolzano and Eleonora Mastropietroassociated professor at the University of Milan.
The multidisciplinary working group is composed of individuals from a variety of backgrounds: Pietro Ambrosini (architect), Rosa Anatriello (architect), Tobias Boos (geographer), Daniele Ietri (geographer and documentary filmmaker), Paolo Martelli (filmmaker), Eleonora Mastropietro (geographer and documentary filmmaker), Adele Picone (architect), Francesco Rispoli (architect), Chiara Rizzi (architect), Daniela Salvucci (anthropologist), Alessio Zemoz (photographer), Dorothy Louise Zinn (anthropologist), and Piero Zizzania (architect).
Tobias Boos and Daniela Salvucci present their paper entitled “Ethnographic explorations, mapping, and community heritage preservation: a collective research experience in the mountainous region of Jovençan, Valle d'Aosta,” at the SIAA-Italian Society for Applied Anthropology Congress, Rome (online), December 16, 2021.
At the Ettore Majorana Institute in Genzano di Lucania (PZ) for the screening of “Qui è Ora” (Here and Now), a film by students from the Hic[est]Nunc workshop—an initiative carried out as part of the National Cinema Plan for Schools promoted by MIUR and MIBAC.
Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro will be speaking to present the Studi sul Qui project.
Studi sul qui partecipa alla prima Transnational Conference on Landscape and Sustainable Tourism, organizzata nell’ambito del progetto Interreg ADRION – ADRILINK project.
The conference, organized by CORILA and hosted by the IUAV University of Venice, aims to explore the concept of landscape and its social, economic, cultural, and ecological approaches, as well as to explore models and tools for an integrated landscape interpretation strategy for sustainable tourism.
See you on November 18, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Venice, Italy
Appointment in Oppido Lucano, as part of the Incanti program, with a presentation of the book Studi sul Qui. With Daniele Ietri, Eleonora Mastropietro, and Alessio Zemoz.
Studies on Qui participates in the program of meetings organized as part of the exhibition MAPS dalla Collezione Museion insieme a Bolzanism Atlas, un progetto curato da Bolzanism Museum.
Attraverso un public program Through talks and workshops, we want to reflect on the concept of contemporary mapping in the context of the neighborhoods of Bolzano West, in collaboration with the Faculty of Design and Arts and the Faculty of Education Sciences of the Free University of Bolzano.
Studies on Qui: an experience of deep mapping. Presentation of the book and research with Tobias Boos, Daniele Ietri, Eleonora Mastropietro, Daniela Salvucci, Dorothy Zinn
See you on June 18 at 6:00 p.m. — @ Cubo Garutti Via Sassari-Str. 17, Bolzano
The book, edited by Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietro, has been published, recounting the first “season” of Studies on the Here.
In this first season, the deep map was created in a small town in the Aosta Valley during a residency involving professionals from the worlds of art and research.
Con contributi di: Tobias Boos, Alexine Dayné, Daniele Ietri, Paolo Martelli, Eleonora Mastropietro, Daniela Salvucci, Paola Zaramella, Alessio Zemoz, Dorothy Louise Zinn
Friday, November 13, presentation of the book “Studi sul Qui” at Bookcity Milano.
The Studi sul Qui project becomes a book!
Studies on Qui. Season 1, edited by Daniele Ietri, Eleonora Mastropietro, Mimesis, Milan 2020
We present it at BookCity Milano (Virtual) Friday, November 13, together with the co-authors of the book and fellow adventurers at the research residence: Tobias Boos, Alexine Dayné, Paolo Martelli, Daniela Salvucci, Paola Zaramella, Alessio Zemoz, and Dorothy Louise Zinn.
Chiara Rizzi joins us to help us describe the work.
The meeting will take place on Teams.
Friday, November 13, 6:30–7:30 p.m.
