In Cerca di Cibo. Significa in cerca di nutrimento

Imagination nourishes the gaze for a project and helps to see and look (and to guard and take care of) things without limitations. Starting in childhood, we play with words and things that can become ‘something else’. I am interested in Words that turn into Images and can be Inhabited. I have always tried to describe architecture in words because, as E. Sottsass Jr. says: “The vocabulary fills up with words, the syntax fills up with sentences, metaphors multiply (they Amplify and expand in breadth and depth), and shadow and light become figurative matter, or rather, an open figurative system, meaning they become an everyday language, a spoken language, invented and reinvented. And we can enter it. Thoughts become things, and things, in a circular way, lead us back to thoughts.” In this project, I am interested in searching for ecosystemic Words that bring Text into Context, where thoughts (to Think) become trails (to Tread) to cross and follow, seeking something Wild, raw, evolving, and expressive of something political (of the polis) – evoking a Material Cosmos, because it leads to the Mother, the Origin, and a Symbolic dimension that takes root in a Primary system, bringing gestures and relationships into a Broad and Deep ecosystem.

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ARCHALP
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2025-05-20
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https://doi.org/10.30682/aa2514n
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Diverse academic and cultural studies
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In Cerca di Cibo. Significa in cerca di nutrimento

Luca Valentini
ARCHALP
Diverse academic and cultural studies
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In Cerca di Cibo. Significa in cerca di nutrimento

Luca Valentini
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Abstract

Imagination nourishes the gaze for a project and helps to see and look (and to guard and take care of) things without limitations. Starting in childhood, we play with words and things that can become ‘something else’. I am interested in Words that turn into Images and can be Inhabited. I have always tried to describe architecture in words because, as E. Sottsass Jr. says: “The vocabulary fills up with words, the syntax fills up with sentences, metaphors multiply (they Amplify and expand in breadth and depth), and shadow and light become figurative matter, or rather, an open figurative system, meaning they become an everyday language, a spoken language, invented and reinvented. And we can enter it. Thoughts become things, and things, in a circular way, lead us back to thoughts.” In this project, I am interested in searching for ecosystemic Words that bring Text into Context, where thoughts (to Think) become trails (to Tread) to cross and follow, seeking something Wild, raw, evolving, and expressive of something political (of the polis) – evoking a Material Cosmos, because it leads to the Mother, the Origin, and a Symbolic dimension that takes root in a Primary system, bringing gestures and relationships into a Broad and Deep ecosystem.

ARCHALPVol. 14(2025)
Openalex Percentile: Top 84%
Diverse academic and cultural studies
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