1 - 31 Aug 2025

Leonardo Ruvolo ( Italy ), Franca Petroni ( Italy )

Porous Cartographies is an artistic research project by the duo Franca Petroni and Leonardo Ruvolo that explores public space through site-specific practices of mapping, writing, and archiving. The project arises from the urgency to develop an affective and sensitive approach to the urban landscape, fostering critical reflection on the processes of gentrification, overtourism, and privatization. In opposition to digital maps that simplify and standardize urban experience, Porous Cartographies proposes the creation of porous cartographies: relational, ecological, and non-prescriptive tools capable of opening up possibilities rather than limiting them. The goal is to reactivate instinct and the desire for discovery within urban space, imagining new forms of orientation. The research materializes in the creation of an archive and a cartography interconnected through a protocol, enabling the reinterpretation of residual or functional urban architectures as political and relational spaces