To reflect on the ways in which contemporary comics represent spaces, it may be useful to look backward. Manuele Fior and Sammy Stein, for whom architecture is a core element of  drawing, retrace the history of the comics language to understand what has changed in space and in the way we draw it.

Incontro in italiano e francese, con traduzione consecutiva.

The artists of A occhi aperti's main exhibition discuss how and why they chose to represent different ways of living in their comics.

The talk will be in English.

Sponsored by Institut Français Italia, Goethe-Institut, Swedish Arts Council.

The spaces drawn by Erik Svetoft in his comics are haunted by grotesque creatures and disturbing entities that recall certain aspects typical of Internet aesthetics -  that is, all the liminal spaces of the Net in which subcultures proliferate and constitute an alien territory. Svetoft rereads his work together with Stefano Caselli, researcher in the field of gaming, and Matteo Gaspari.

The talk will be in Italian and English.

Besides drawing, other arts deal with the relationship between bodies, spaces and the imaginary. One of them is performance art: Leonardo Delogu, member of DOM- collective, reflects through his artistic practice (and specifically his walking performances) on the interactions between power, nature, culture and marginality in public spaces.

The talk will be in Italian.

In his Northeast Trilogy - Padovaland, Fiordilatte and Comfortless, all published by Canicola - Miguel Vila has created a fresco of the Italian northeastern province, a place where natural elements and industrial architecture, grass and concrete, become symbols of a collective moral decline. He discusses the relationship between comics   characters and their environment  with Alessandro Tota, who has chronicled provicial life in southern Italy, and architect Jacopo Gresleri.

Students of Architecture and member of Ordine degli Architetti Bologna can receive 1 CFP upon presenting self-certification.