ASSEMBLEA.
An Open Infrastructure for Humans, Animals, Plants, and Insects.

Assemblea is a raw earth wall constructed during the Bosco Colto Campus 2024, co-led by Beatrice Fontana as part of the Institute for Spatial Thinking. Rather than functioning as a finished architectural object, the wall was conceived as an ecological infrastructure capable of hosting multiple forms of life.

Built as a dry-stacked raw earth structure, Assemblea provides habitat for plants, insects, and animals while remaining accessible and adaptable to human use. Its material composition and construction logic emphasize reversibility, maintenance, and growth over time rather than permanence or formal completion.
The project was explicitly conceived as an open project. It establishes an initial perimeter and a set of material and spatial conditions that can be expanded, modified, and completed by future groups of students. In this sense, Assemblea operates less as a singular intervention and more as a foundational device that enables long-term collective engagement at the site of @giada.sociale.

Mediate - Assemblea mediates by translating ecological principles into a material and spatial infrastructure that can be directly inhabited and maintained. Rather than representing ecological relations conceptually, the project transfers them into a built form that makes processes of coexistence, growth, and care tangible and operable. Through its raw earth construction and open-ended logic, the wall functions as a device that translates environmental conditions, material constraints, and long-term ecological dynamics into a shared spatial framework accessible to humans and non-human agents alike.

Activate - The project activates collective processes by leaving the work intentionally incomplete and open to future interventions. Students are not positioned as authors of a finished object, but as initiators of a process that invites continuation, adaptation, and care over time. By requiring maintenance, extension, and modification, Assemblea activates a form of responsibility that extends beyond the moment of construction and transforms the site into a living pedagogical and ecological infrastructure.

Assemblea does not aim to solve ecological questions through design, but to construct the conditions under which ecological relations can be sustained, observed, and collectively enacted.