Terra Infecta
A Moving Border
Rights of Future Generations
Arrivederci ad Arborea
EXHIBITIONS
Vulnerable Beings
Medical Borders
PEDAGOGY
Al Masha + Difficult Heritage
The Interior Inside Out
CRITICISM
andrea.bagnato
[at] me.com
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019
978-1-941332-45-0, 19 x 29 cm, 228 pp.
written and edited with Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual
National borders do not exist in nature, but are always the product of cartographic and historical narratives. In the modern period many borders were traced along mountain ranges and across glaciers as they were thought to be fixed and immutable. But the ice is now melting, and so are boundary lines; global warming is laying bare the fictions on which nation states were built.
The book starts from the project Italian Limes (2014–2016) by Studio Folder, which surveyed and made visible the movement of Italy’s alpine boundaries. It charts the architecture of the border alongside a broader history of boundary making, and examines the nexus of nationalism, cartography, and climate from a unique perspective.
A Moving Border includes a foreword by Bruno Latour, and essays by Stuart Elden, Mia Fuller, Francesca Hughes, and Wu Ming 1.
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