Entries by Matteo Pericoli
New LabLitArch workshop @ Liceo Altiero Spinelli (Turin)
Starting on February 2: the second LabLitArch edition at the Liceo Internazionale Altiero Spinelli (Turin) in collaboration with Fronte del Borgo. We’ll be working on texts by Amy Hempel, Friedrich Christian Delius, Wen-Fu Tsai and Ernest Hemingway.
LabLitArch @ Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin)
La prossima edizione del laboratorio che si terrà dal 16 al 19 Novembre alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo di Torino sarà aperta a tutti — lettori, scrittori, architetti, curiosi del rapporto tra narrativa e spazio — e, come troverete sul sito della Fondazione: “nell’ambito dei progetti di accessibilità culturale portati avanti dalla Fondazione Sandretto Re […]
From the LabLitArch edition in Taipei (Taiwan)
Some images from the LabLitArch workshop held at the Center for the Arts of National Taiwan University in Taipei. The students — with very diverse majors such as architecture, engineering, political science, social studies, philosophy and psychology — worked on texts by Amy Hempel (The Harvest), E.B. White (The Door), Ernest Hemingway (Hills Like White Elephants), […]
LabLitArch workshop @ Liceo Altiero Spinelli (Turin)
The recently-ended LabLitArch workshop for 10th graders at the public high school Altiero Spinelli in Turin (Italy) was written up in the Turin-based, national newspaper La Stampa, here. The fifteen-year-old students did great work, click here to look at some photos taken during the workshop:
Current and upcoming workshops
In January 2017, a LabLitArch workshop was held at the Turin International Public High School Altiero Spinelli, with the support of the Fronte del Borgo, and began a collaboration with the Muskogee Public School system (Oklahoma) and the University of Oklahoma (School of Architecture) to incorporate their English Language Arts program into an MIT Fab […]
From the LabLitArch edition in Dubai
Some images from the 5-day-long, October 2016 Dubai Design Week edition of the LabLitArch, held in collaboration with the Emirates Literature Foundation.
LabLitArch @ Dubai video
Johara Beydoun, who participated in LabLitArch @ Dubai Design Week, produced a beautiful video of her project based on E.B. White’s short story “The Door“
LabLitArch in Numéro Cinq
Gary Garvin writes about the Laboratory of Literary Architecture: Fiction is a construction that arranges space and has a structure that defines spatial relationships. As such it is a kind of architecture, but its structure, especially in our more challenging, more exploratory fictions cannot be pictured as the simple pyramid Freytag gave us years ago. […]