The present study aims to investigate the complex and articulated interactions and correspondences between the chasms, which frequently affect the territory of Rome and the fill soils that characterize the stratigraphy of the subsoil. Through the observation of the accelerations and decelerations that define the appearance or concealment of these phenomena, the question we intend to investigate is the dialogue, the interdependence, between the vortices, or temporal entanglements, and the fluid and moving geological layer. It is a matter permeable to impulses, the interface of a sphere of forces, agents, that act directly on its composition, formation and destruction. The articulation and modification that takes place in the landscape suggests a reversal of course for the project, that is, the coexistence of endogenous and exogenous forces welded together in an ecology of "disturbances". The materialist approach recognises the geological layer as a source of energy and evolution, marking the end of one phase and the beginning of another. In this perspective, rupture is also constitutive, implying the embrace of impermanence, vulnerability, evanescence and disruption. The 'punctured space' becomes a condition of existence and modernity characterised by fluidity and fragility. To establish balance, the world can be seen as a metastable space in which energy accumulated and generated over time can unhinge and subvert the conventional stigma. The coexistence between humans and "earth-beings" is proposed as a necessary scenario, in which metamorphosis makes it possible to overcome binary relationships between different scenarios and projects and the imposition of radical, solutionist positions. The suspension of the project and familiarization with fluidity involves the willingness to engage in the processes underway and to correspond with them. If the project continues to be blind, rigid, immobile to the fluidity of matter, suspension instead proposes itself as listening, an attentive gaze, it is suspending to feel a state of consciousness induced in us by the external world through the senses or any affective state arising in the soul.

Maurelli, I. (2025). Interrupted landscape. Chasms like new tangles of life. In Conference proceedings EURA 2025. Creating healthy and sustainable cities (pp.7-7). Bristol : European urban research association.

Interrupted landscape. Chasms like new tangles of life

Ilaria Maurelli
2025-01-01

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the complex and articulated interactions and correspondences between the chasms, which frequently affect the territory of Rome and the fill soils that characterize the stratigraphy of the subsoil. Through the observation of the accelerations and decelerations that define the appearance or concealment of these phenomena, the question we intend to investigate is the dialogue, the interdependence, between the vortices, or temporal entanglements, and the fluid and moving geological layer. It is a matter permeable to impulses, the interface of a sphere of forces, agents, that act directly on its composition, formation and destruction. The articulation and modification that takes place in the landscape suggests a reversal of course for the project, that is, the coexistence of endogenous and exogenous forces welded together in an ecology of "disturbances". The materialist approach recognises the geological layer as a source of energy and evolution, marking the end of one phase and the beginning of another. In this perspective, rupture is also constitutive, implying the embrace of impermanence, vulnerability, evanescence and disruption. The 'punctured space' becomes a condition of existence and modernity characterised by fluidity and fragility. To establish balance, the world can be seen as a metastable space in which energy accumulated and generated over time can unhinge and subvert the conventional stigma. The coexistence between humans and "earth-beings" is proposed as a necessary scenario, in which metamorphosis makes it possible to overcome binary relationships between different scenarios and projects and the imposition of radical, solutionist positions. The suspension of the project and familiarization with fluidity involves the willingness to engage in the processes underway and to correspond with them. If the project continues to be blind, rigid, immobile to the fluidity of matter, suspension instead proposes itself as listening, an attentive gaze, it is suspending to feel a state of consciousness induced in us by the external world through the senses or any affective state arising in the soul.
2025
Maurelli, I. (2025). Interrupted landscape. Chasms like new tangles of life. In Conference proceedings EURA 2025. Creating healthy and sustainable cities (pp.7-7). Bristol : European urban research association.
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