Between Land and Sea finds its focal point in Sicily, at the heart of the Mediterranean.
Stefanos Levidis, co-founder of FAIA, an Athens-based research agency dedicated to spatial and multimedia investigations into human rights violations, enters into conversation with Pierluigi Bizzini, journalist and member of FADA Collective.
Through different methodologies, both share a commitment to human and more-than-human rights. The conversation explores their relationship with the territories they come from and document: How can geographies be translated into information? How do physical spaces become narrative spaces? And what does it mean to do so from a Southern European perspective?
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Bio | Pierluigi Bizzini
Pierluigi Bizzini is a journalist and member of FADA Collective. Based in Sicily, he works on investigative journalism and reporting on environmental policies, migration, extractivism and digital surveillance.
He was a fellow at AlgorithmWatch, where he explored the topic of predictive policing. He has investigated Italian and European public policies, examining droughts and wildfires in Sicily, illegal fishing in the Po Delta, and border control between Sicily and North Africa.
He is an Allianz Foundation Fellow 2026 and curator of the editorial project The Syllabus. His work is grounded in collaborative and participatory journalism, connecting different perspectives and supporting disadvantaged rural communities in Southern Italy.
Bio | Stefanos Levidis
Stefanos Levidis is an architect, spatial researcher and adjunct professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He is co-founder and co-director of Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIA).
Since 2016, he has collaborated with Forensic Architecture and Forensis as a senior researcher, coordinating investigations into borders and migration. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, with a thesis entitled Border Natures.
He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, as part of the MUTE project. His spatial and visual practice has been presented and published internationally, and his investigations have also been used in legal proceedings to support human rights cases.