REVERBERATIONS | 25.09.2025-02.10.2025 Group show MA Research Architecture 2025, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Reverberations presents the work of the MA Research Architecture 2025 cohort. The works gathered here function as sensors for different conditions. They register slow violence and sudden rupture, ancestral memory and digital surveillance, cycles of collapse and acts of refusal.

 

This exhibition maps a constellation of conditions emerging out of various socio-political realities. It registers how they reverberate across time and space. Through the concept of reverberation, the exhibition does not treat these conditions in isolation. Rather, it invites the forging of alliances between struggles and across realities. By placing these works in dialogue, both fragile and urgent connections are formed. 

 

To highlight possible alliances, the exhibition proposes multiple ways of navigating this constellation throughout the week. Workshops, screenings, and radio, offer specific activations, that account for the projects’ complexity. The spatial activation emerges through the display of projects arranged around temporalities. We use this approach to think of time beyond mere duration, revealing forms of knowledge that can traverse and be smuggled across different times. 

These activations aim to navigate myriad worlds by investigating the specificities of each condition. The encounter of these conditions make legible political potentials. 

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Reverberations insists that things can be otherwise.

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Riccardo Rizzetto - Eroded Ecologies: Sensing Soils, Seas, and Plants in Venetian Lagoonal Landscapes 

 

Starting from the Purple Artichoke of Sant 'Erasmo - an ambiguous symbol of Venice, both delicacy and remnant of an agricultural past - the research unfolds as an analysis of the actors entangled in the making and unmaking of the Venetian Lagoon. The artichoke acts as a living palimpsest, tracing colonial, migratory, and commercial histories while revealing current ecological and social frictions. From this entry point, the lagoon is approached as a co-authored environment shaped by human and more-than-human impositions, agencies, infrastructural and climate urgencies. Eroded Ecologies proposes an exercise in listening and situated observation: a transect becomes a way of reading the territory, where soil turns into image, water into vibration, and space into narrative. Soil chromatographies, field recordings, and photographs compose a living archive of resistance, vulnerability, and fragile balance.

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On the occasion of Reverberations, Eroded Ecologies presents early findings from a wider exploration of the Venetian Lagoon — investigating how anthropic interventions become inscribed within the material fabric of its water bodies.

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What began with the Purple Artichoke of Sant’Erasmo evolved into a layered reading of its soils, waters, and infrastructures.

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Traced across the Venetian Lagoon, the first installation of Eroded Ecologies unfolds as an exercise in listening and situated observation.

Pivoting around a transect drawing that bridges the geological past with the ecological present, soil turns into image, water into vibration, space into narrative.

Chromatographies, field recordings, photographs, and cyanotypes compose an unfolding archive of the lagoon — where ecologies and infrastructures are entangled in a delicate equilibrium of erosion, persistence, and change.

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