Experimental Academic Writing on Modern Ruination

This body of work, developed collaboratively with Pablo Arboleda, explores contemporary ruins through an experimental mix of fieldwork, narrative, and image. The project rethinks academic output through poetic documentation and critical fiction, focusing on ruinous aesthetics, architectural decay, and alternative urban imaginaries. One of its key sites is Pizzo Sella Art Village in Palermo – an unfinished illegal housing development turned into a speculative research-ground for ruinology.

[phot. by Pablo Arboleda]

Selected Works from the Series:

• “Berlin, a Repurposed Ruin, and Constant Change as the Fixed Condition: A Photo‑Comic” — Cultural Commons and Urban Dynamics, edited by Macrì, Morea & Trimarchi, Springer, 2020

• “A Conversational Plea for the Ruin Studies” — Munich Social Science Review, New Series, vol. 5, 2021 (published 2022)

• “The Dam of the Damned” — GeoHumanities, 8(1), 2022

• “Cyclical Ruins: A Videopoem on Sun and Sand Tourism Spaces in the Low Season” — in Ambiance, Tourism and the City, Routledge, 2023