An Atlas of Rituals

2021
Team point of view
Interpreting the connection between heritage and nature through exploring Olive Tree’s existence in Bitonto, the project proposes a ‘process-driven’ design approach, and probes instigating a new form of “connectedness” through a framework that revolves around the cyclical rituals of olive to enable dynamic coexistence of socio-ecological/cultural/economic mutations. All layers of connectivity and all rituals are harmonised with each other through the processes of olive; and within this multilayered framework, the layers of connection become trails of rituals while the squares, stations of these rituals.

Jury point of view
The project proposes an alternative vision linked to the digital infrastructure as an instrument of knowledge and narrativity of the territory. Starting from the essence of the moments of the olive cultivation cycle, the project generates events, activities and rituals. It proposes different levels of overlapping systems - hydrographic network paths, ecological connectivity paths between Lama Balice and Alta Murgia, circulation paths, local production paths, socio-cultural and heritage paths.