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2024–2025Exhibition + Publication

Curated by OMNE Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est
Tiresia Media at Operaie Fest
Ex Asilo Santarelli, Forlì
10.10.2025 – 10.12.2025
Zone gathers the experience of fifteen photographers who participated in an urban reading workshop focused on the city of Forlì. Guided by the conviction that the city is a living, constantly transforming organism (Geddes, 1915), photography emerged as an ideal medium to offer new perspectives on the multiple aspects that characterize contemporary urban life. The urban explorations primarily focused on Forlì’s historic center and its peri-urban areas, including the most recent zones of transformation. The investigation paid particular attention to the architecture and morphology of the urban fabric, highlighting the role of public space in relation to private space (Lefebvre, 1974), where the interplay between natural and artificial elements, between ground and facade design, and between monumental and vernacular features, becomes most evident. 

The various projects enabled a reading of the city as a complex organism, subject to constantly evolving economic, social, and cultural dynamics. The multicultural character of the historic center neighborhoods, traces of industrial history, conflicts between nature and the built environment, and the tensions between past and present emerge as recurring themes, transforming each photograph into a personal yet collective narrative of contemporary Forlì.

Text by Stefania Rössl












Unbound folded editionEdited by
Michele Buda 
Stefania Rössl
Massimo Sordi 
with Alessandro Galli
Editorial project by
Damiano Fraccaro / Otium
Italy, October 2025
Language: Italian/English
Limited edition of 100
Otium
ISBN 9788894225341
The publication thus presents itself as a multifaceted visual map of the city, where photographs become tools for reading the urban landscape (Augé, 1992; Lynch, 1960), capable of articulating, through micro-stories, a new language for interpreting contemporary urban phenomena. Zone also testifies to the value of a participatory, workshop-based approach to photography, where theory and practice intertwine in a collective experience of observation and reflection on the present, the urban and social dimensions of a mid-sized Italian city, and the multiple identities that coexist within it.

The selection of images featured in this publication conveys the active dimension of a city that changes as hours pass and assumes different forms through the eyes of its inhabitants. The landscape is transformed, new constructions occupy empty spaces, while significant architectural presences, symbols of a past economy, are gradually reabsorbed by nature. The tension between natural and artificial manifests through urban imaginaries that reveal the fragility of this delicate balance. In urban planning and geography, the peri-urban space is studied as a continuously evolving marginal area, where dynamics of urban growth, agricultural land consumption, mobility needs, and environmental quality intersect. It is not merely a transitional zone but a border territory, making visible both the contradictions and the potential inherent in the relationship between city and countryside.

From these considerations arise fundamental questions: in which direction is Forlì’s urban landscape evolving? What future configurations may emerge for a city shaped by the legacy of partially resolved urban policies, that now confront new demands for sustainability and territorial quality?