Image organizes ARTLANDS. Towards new forms of constructing the territory, project revolving around the activity of biologist Carlo Scoccianti, a WWF specialist in the conservation of “wetland areas” and since 1996 the developer of a series of works for the creation of new ecological systems in the Florentine Plains.

ARTLANDS will be presented to the public on May 18, 2012 at 4:30 pm at the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy. Marco Bazzini, director of the Pecci center, Gianni Pettena, architect and artist, Pietro Valle, architect, and Carlo Scoccianti, biologist, will attend. Among the guests is American artist Alan Sonfist. As part of the same program, on May 20 at 11 am, at the Oasi Stagni di Focognano in Campi Bisenzio, the artwork titled "Beyond Agnes Denes (homage to)" will be unveiled: the work inaugurates a new large wetland area dedicated to the American artist, one of the pioneers of environmental art.

Promoted by the WWF, ARTLANDS is made in collaboration with the Province of Florence, the Municipalities of Campi Bisenzio and Lastra a Signa, the Università degli Studi di Firenze, the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, the three Land Reclamation Consortia involved with the areas in question, Quadrifoglio, Publiacqua, L’Isola dei Renai and organized by Image.

CITY VISIONS. Dialoghi e video di architettura (CITY VISIONS. Architectural videos and dialogues) is a series of talks produced by Urban Center Metropolitano in Turin, Italy, under the patronage of Film Commmission Torino Piemonte and curated by Image. The program sets off from the understanding of contemporary urban space as an accumulation of points of view, outlooks, observations. Cities change under the eyes of their inhabitants and are constantly enriched by the ideas and visions that, through media, those in charge of their transformations conceive. The first appointment is on April 12, 2012 at 6 pm at the Urban Center Metropolitano in Turin, Italy (piazza Palazzo di Città 8/F), the last one being on October 25. The complete program may be downloaded here.

In Fagagna, a town in the province of Udine, in Northern Italy, the new headquarters and production complex for PRATIC by GEZA architects Stefano Gri and Piero Zucchi has been recently inaugurated. The building demonstrates architecture’s ability to reinterpret the notion of landscape as well as to redefine the quality of industrial space. The project is infused with a strong desire for simplicity. The dry and elemental nature of the structure, the colors and even the interaction with the landscape are testament to this principle. 

Image presents a new occasion for discussing the possibility for architecture to be visionary: Y1/CITYVISION. Independent Architecture Stuff. The event, curated by Francesco Lipari and Vanessa Todaro, will take place in Rome on September 16, 2011 at 6 pm at the MAXXI auditorium with a lecture by  Joshua Prince Ramus, former partner at OMA and, since 2006, principal at REX architects in New York. The presentation of the 4th issue of CityVision will be followed by the announcement of the results of the Venice CityVision International Competition, which took place between February and June 2011 with the objective of "stimulating and supporting the contemporary city through innovative ideas that can improve the connection between the historical, present and future city (…)". The jury -including Bjarke Ingels, Elena Manferdini, Neri Oxman, Maria Ludovica Tramontin and Bostjan Vuga- awarded the proposal conceived by Alberto Bottero, Simona Della Rocca, Valeria Bruni.

On the occasion of the festival ARCHITETTURA IN CITTÀ (Turin, July 13-17), Image ARCHIVE collaborates with the Ordine degli Architetti di Torino and with the Fondazione OAT by offering to the public a program of architecture videos that interpre the theme "Where the city ends". 

The videos were selected by Image ARCHIVE to inaugurate the festival and describe a series of current trends: the search for new visual expressions that interpret changed perceptions and new architectural ideas; the work on tools of observation and prefiguration of urban phenomena; the definition of narrative forms that aim at emphasizing the potential of audio-visual tools in the field of architecture and urban planning.

Among the selected videos: Rob Carter (Metropolis, US 2008); Pilar Ortiz (watching time go by my bedroom window, CL 2008); Plasmatic Concepts (Peripheral Landscapes, US 2007); Marina Chernikova (URBAN SURFING II b/w, NL 2007); Eva Sommeregger (*.scape, UK 2007); Muoto Architectes (Concerto for Infrastructures, FR 2008); Laboratorio Permanente, Pietro Ferrario e Andrea Bot (La conquista dell'orizzonte, IT 2011); Keiichi Matsuda (The Technocrat Retrofit of London, UK 2009); squint/opera (Post Barnsley, UK 2003). The video screening will be introduced by Paola Ricco, curator at Image ARCHIVE, at the Infopoint di Palazzo Bertalazone di San Fermo, on Wednesday July 13 at 7 pm. Marco Brizzi, director at Image, will participate in the talk show titled "Where the city ends" scheduled for Sunday July 17 at the Teatro Gobetti, via Rossini 8, at 8 pm, at the closing of the festival.

Image has been following the evolution of the interaction between video and architecture since 1997, by starting the BEYOND MEDIA festival and founding Image ARCHIVE, both dedicated to the advancement of video in the representation of contemporary architecture.