Anthology: Permanence in four seasons
Ayelén Betsabe Zucotti (1990, Córdoba – Argentina) graduated in architecture from FAUDI (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina – 2015), with a thesis entitled ‘Pause’.
She has collaborated on various architectural project seminars at FAUDI and has taught the ‘Ordenamiento Ambiental y Territorial’ seminar (Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Argentina 2016-2020), where she was also part of the Technical Planning department.
Zucotti has curated various workshops such as ‘Periferia Pública, bordes y transiciones públicas de las instituciones ' (Centro Cultural España Córdoba, 2016-2017), ‘Mapas para usar el suelo’ (UNVM, 2018) and ‘Memoria de los territorios' (Usina Cultural, 2019).
He obtained a Master's degree in Advanced Architectural Projects from the ETSAM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España - 2024) with a thesis entitled ‘La institución, una arquitectura de conflictos. Los museos Munch en Oslo’. During his studies, she was awarded a scholarship from the Department of Architecture at ETSAM and a scholarship from UPM for the “Educational Innovation Projects” program.
In the field of research, she recently participated in the EURAU conference at the Politecnico di Milano with the article 'The tags associated with the Munch Museum and its relationship with the Oslo community'.
Her work is mainly focused on design and construction of institutions.
There are places where time does not arrive. There are places where the unit of measurement is the seasons. In spring the new beginning, in summer the harvests and the festivals, in autumn the ground is prepared for the snow, and in winter its magic is awaited.
Humans and non-humans who are the result of a transhumant past and a disconnected present, cohabit in a physical landscape froze in time, but connected in digital landscapes.
In the book “I nuovi Veneziani”, by Caterina Falomo (StudioLT2; Venezia,2011), different narratives of inhabitants who today resist on an island that is almost empty but reproduced on a million’s images produced of visitors. Falomo ends her back cover saying: ‘Venice needs new Venetians, it needs their attention, their care and fantasy’. The Molise also needs new Molisanos and Molisanas who can write narratives in the present time of their landscapes, to inhabit them and to be critical of what remains by nature and of what remains by nostalgia. The aim of this anthology is to bring together pieces that represent the landscape of Molise in the four seasons of the year. Each of the pieces will be created for the first time for the present collection, by people born after in 2010. In this sense, the aim is to highlight elements of the landscape that remains, through the critical perspective of a generation born with new narratives on a ground of digital landscapes. Trivento is proposed as a starting point, a town of about 5000 inhabitants located in Alto Molise. At the end of the four publications, one for each station, it is proposed to end with an exhibition open to the rest of the young people of the region, and why not, that the young people themselves proposed the next village.
The initiative behind the proposal arose as concern about the process of depopulation in the villages of the Molise region.
Oral testimony is almost the only way that, allows ancestral practices to continue, but the new generations are forgetting.