{"id":6552,"date":"2026-04-17T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:21:38","slug":"favoritas-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/editorial\/favoritas-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorita&#8217;s Waters: Resilient Care Infrastructures for a Contemporary Mediterranean Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>From\u00a05 to 11 July 2026, Palermo will host the Summer School:\u00a0<\/i><i>&#8220;Favorita&#8217;s Waters: resilient care infrastructures for a contemporary Mediterranean garden&#8221;<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>Ever since Norman times in Sicily, waterways have been protected as essential infrastructure for community, plants, and animals. Although water has sustained social rituals and natural biological cycles for centuries, in our contemporary cities the clean water of fountains, ponds, canals, and lakes is disappearing.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>In a state of constant scarcity, characteristic of Sicilian summers, the study and rediscovery of underground springs, water infrastructures, and irrigation systems becomes a collective act of care for fragile urban ecosystems.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>\u00a0Through the lens of water as a cultural, social, therapeutic and environmental resource, Favorita&#8217;s Water Summer School explores the irrigation heritage of Palermo&#8217;s Parco della Favorita (from water towers, Arab irrigation systems and Baroque fountains, to Roman cisterns) as a way to re-imagine new and speculative designs to better take care of water in the city.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>The workshop is organised and led by <strong>Flavia Saggese<\/strong> (USI Mendrisio) and <strong>Paolo Failla<\/strong>, <strong>Francesca Gotti<\/strong>, <strong>Lara Monacelli Bani<\/strong>, <strong>Yona Schreyer<\/strong> and <strong>Michele Zadra<\/strong> (Wunder Collective), with the participation of Prof. <strong>Muck Petzet<\/strong> (USI Mendrisio) and Prof. <strong>Giuseppe Barbera<\/strong> (University of Palermo).\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>Working together on site, we will meet the local community and critically develop speculative design interventions revolving around urban water.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>The 2026 Summer School is conceived and promoted by the Istituto Svizzero, in collaboration with Studio Rizoma \u2013 Teatro Garibaldi, USI Accademia Mendrisio and Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Palermo, with the valued support of Banca Patrimoni Sella.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>The call is now open! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc.usi.ch\/it\/feeds\/14530\">Visit the Summer School&#8217;s website<\/a> for information and application forms.<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a05 to 11 July 2026, Palermo will host the Summer School:\u00a0&#8220;Favorita&#8217;s Waters: resilient care infrastructures for a contemporary Mediterranean garden&#8221; Ever since Norman times in Sicily, waterways have been protected as essential infrastructure for community, plants, and animals. Although water has sustained social rituals and natural biological cycles for centuries, in our contemporary cities the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6566,"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions\/6566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}