The exhibition foregrounds ideas that rethink water management in a disrupted future. We explored three clusters Revealing Traces, Reusing Flows, and Regenerating Routes each outlining possible directions for Sicily’s emerging water landscape.



Projects that make the traces of water scarcity legible: consumption, losses, quality, and the footprint of use.

The soil speaks, Ruro gives it a voice

Team: Marta Brighel, Anna Dall’Aglio, Emma Gerroni, Xinzhi Lyu, Alessio Pani, Lars Riemann

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Every drop is tracked

Team: Nabila Devonia Alfansi, Matteo D’Ancona, Berkay Darcan, Giorgia Fontana, Ludovica Maccioni, Eichha Singh

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Highlighting water flow, enabling better behaviour

Team: Nicolas Atelman, Bilguunzaya Boldbaatar, Camilla Damnotti, Juwon Kang, Shiruo Zhang, Alice Zin

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Beyond the surface we reveal the flow

Team: Mattia Addario, Ezel Biton, Nicoletta Dodaj, Marina Martinez, Lucrezia Polini, Aditya Pratama

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Capiamo l’acqua insieme

Team: Tiffenn Solène Marie Barbé, Elisa Bonaiuti, Giorgio Emanuele Galli, Beatrice Monti, Filippo Pavesi, Xiangrui Zhou

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Projects that intercept and redirect material flows otherwise destined for dissipation: greywater, sediments, biomass, and residual by-products. 

From waste to worth

Team: Lorenzo Cacioli, Madhuri Muralidharan, Isadora Vicenza Pacini, Sofia Pasculli, Francesco Pecorari, Sara Gravdal Volstad, Hairu Zha

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Wise water

Team: Jude Abou Hamdan, Xuanye Chen, Lara Erdir, Myriam Giagnoni, Sara Eva Guarino, Juan Salaza

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From the land to the water to the land

Team: Arianna Bosco, Yu-Ting Lo, Sophia Moncayo, Yuan Su, Edoardo Trapani

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Side-thinking the sidestream

Team: Maya Alhasan, Mattia Garofalo, Hootan Mortazavi, Xiaouxuan Ren, Matteo Terraneo, Zuyi Wang

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Learning to eat with the cycles of the land

Team: Marco Bellavite, Riccardo De Pasquale, Anya Fasolyak, Chendong Sun, Nicole Troncoso, Andrea Zorlon

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Oltre l’acqua

Team: Jean Paul Alcandre Massa, Mathilda Faggionato, Mehrnaz Gelyani, Rekha Lilou Mouilleron-Becar, Risca Pratita, Giorgia Marissa Serra

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Projects addressing the regeneration of degraded sites and territories: abandoned agricultural land, marginal areas, and urban fragments in need of renewal.

La cultura che disseta

Team: Jingwen Deng, Elena Gasparrini, Begüm Güleryüz, Camilla Krossøy, Savié Lizotte, Greta Piccioli

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Rethinking the ground we share

Team: Alice Burgess, Katherine Chimoy, Beatrice Ciavarella, Agnete Heidensleben, Matteo Impieri, Sofiia Lomkin

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Rooting future in Sicani

Team: Damaris Camacho, Marco A. Delbue, Andrea D’Ignazi, Francesca Maggi, Shalvi Sabnis, Rongcheng Zou

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Adapting pruning for resilient olive farming


Team: Lara Bosani, Josefina Bustos Guirao, Wuriandita Wahyumurti Candra, Despoina Hadjiyianni, Alessandro Moneta, Alessandro Parente


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Nourishing food, thriving soil


Team: Francesca Alderisio, Shafire Erdia Anjani, Emanuele Croce, Alessia Menduni, Helene Netlan, Yatin Seth


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Mattia Addario | Marina Martinez Aires | Francesca Alderisio | Nabila Devonia Alfansi | Maya Alhasan | Nicolas Atelman | Tiffenn Barbè | Marco Bellavite | Ezel Biton | Bilguunzaya Boldbaatar | Elisa Bonaiuti | Lara Bosani | Arianna Bosco | Marta Brighel | Alice Burgess | Josefina Bustos | Lorenzo Cacioli | Wuriandita Wahyumurti Candra | Xuanye Chen | Beatrice Ciavarella | Emanuele Croce | Juan David Salazar Cuellar | Matteo D'Ancona | Andrea D'Ignazi | Anna Maria Dall'Aglio | Camilla Damnotti | Berkay Darcan | Marco Aurelio Delbue | Nicole Andrea Troncoso Delfin | Jingwen Deng | Nicoletta Dodaj | Lara Erdir | Mathilda Faggionato | Anna Dmitrievna Fasolyak | Giorgia Fontana | Mattia Garofalo | Elena Gasparrini | Mehrnaz Gelyani | Emma Gerroni | Myriam Giagnoni | Sara Eva Guarino | Begum Guleryuz | Despoina Hadjiyianni | Agnete Heidensleben | Matteo Impieri | Juwon Kang | Camilla Krossøy | Savie Mathis Lizotte | Yuting Lo | Sofiia Lomkina | Xinzhi Lyu | Ludovica Maccioni | Francesca Maggi | Jean Paul Alcandre Massa | Alessia Menduni | Alessandro Moneta | Beatrice Monti | Hootan Mortazavi | Lilou Rekha | Mouilleron-Becar | Madhuri Muralidharan | Isadora Vicenza Pacini | Alessandro Parente | Riccardo De Pasquale | Sofia Pasculli | Filippo Pavesi | Francesco Pecorari | Greta Piccioli | Lucrezia Polini | Risca Pratita | Aditya Rizki Pratama | Xiaoxuan Ren | Lars Riemann | Shalvi Gurunath Sabnis | Sofia Moncayo Salazar | Giorgia Marissa Serra | Yatin Set | Eichha Singh | Yuan Su | Chendong Sun | Matteo Terraneo | Edoardo Trapani | Helene Netland Unander | Katherine Mercedes Chimoy Vega | Puneetha Veerapaneni | Sara Gravdal Volstad | Zuyi Wang | Hairu Zhai | Shiruo Zhang | Xiangrui Zhou | Alice Zini | Andrea Zorloni | Rongcheng Zou