That Extra Layer: The Outermost Surface as a Litmus Paper of Experimentations

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Live talk, A+Mani — Politecnico di Milano (curated by Matete Martini)

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Invited to speak within the A+Mani programme at Politecnico di Milano, Riccardo Rizzetto delivered the live talk That Extra Layer: The Outermost Surface as a Litmus Paper of Experimentations, a reflection on the surface as both boundary and site of transformation.

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Through the lens of his own practice — spanning architecture, design, and visual research — Rizzetto explored how the outermost layer of things operates as a sensitive membrane: a litmus paper that records material, ecological, and emotional processes.
Far from being a mere façade, the surface becomes an interface where matter reacts to touch, environment, and time; a site of inscription where experimentation leaves its trace.

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The talk unfolded around examples drawn from his ongoing series Crashes, Scars, and Secature, as well as spatial and curatorial projects, tracing how the act of layering and revealing surfaces becomes a form of research in itself.

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Presented within a dialogue curated by Matete Martini, the lecture proposed a reconsideration of material practice as an embodied method of inquiry; where the skin of things, rather than concealing, becomes the field through which transformation can be sensed and measured.

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