Studio SER Revealing Encounters

The Valle di Muggio was taken as a case study in order to reflect on the relation between the public space and the social life of the community living in it. Students investigated on the potential of architecture to encourage relations between people, as a reaction to the phenomena of solitude which is more and more taking over the peripheral regions of Ticino, of Switzerland, of Europe. Groups of three students engaged each with one specific village of the Valle di Muggio. They considered the realities of elderly people and the community as a whole that lives in these peripheral regions. Students investigated, observed, listened and understood how the community relates to the public space surrounding them. They observed the encounters taking place in these spaces. Encounters of times, encounters of materials, encounters of spaces, encounters of people. And they envisioned the encounters that are being longed for, the encounters that are missed, the encounters that can be imagined. They re-drew the encounters, leaving behind fragments of built imagination.

Intervention 1

Intervention 2

Intervention 3

Participating students

Carmen Höhener, Paul O’Neill, Helene Stüben, Nikola Nikolic, Oliver Luther, Sejjad Zameli, Zosia Krupa, Albert Jimenez, Aleix Salazar, Alia Bennani, Ricardo Lopez, Sara Navarro, Lara Avram, Sofia Manieri, Tobias Van Hecke, Max Böhringer