critical preservation
{ critical preservation } The 1964 Venice Charter, setting guidelines for the conservation and restoration of monuments states that ‘replacements of missing parts must integrate harmoniously with the whole, but at…
undoing heritage
{ undoing heritage } Heritage is not neutral: indeed, heritage is entirely political. The authorized heritage discourse focuses on aesthetically pleasing material artifacts and excludes everything which can contradict the official…
Carlota Mir
Carlota Mir is a curator, researcher, translator and cultural agent currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work, of a multidisciplinary and multilingual nature, interrogates the relationship between gender, sexuality and space in…
dildo-architecture
{ dildo-architecture } The notion of prosthesis is crucial for developping an understanding of the role of architecture as a multiplier of (gendered) ideology. As Paul B. Preciado argues, hegemonic masculinity…
echoing
{ echoing } Echoes from the “colonies” resound in “Casa del Mutilato”, where history is represented by the voice of the coloniser. One of the epigraphs, placed at the sides of…
Ilaria Lombardo
Ilaria Lombardo is a researcher and PhD student in ‘Cultural Studies’ at Goldsmiths University in London where she is focusing on the role of art in the processes of decolonization of the…
peace
{ peace } Mussolini’s speech continues by labelling the Empire as an “Empire of peace, because Italy wants peace for itself and for everyone and decides to go to war only…
martyrdom
{ martyrdom } What is the relevance of the queer reading of Saint Sebastian in relation to Casa del Mutilato? If the building is a monument to men who fought in…
mutilation
{ mutilation } During the Treaty of London (1915), a secret pact between the Triple Entente and the Kingdom of Italy, Italy was also promised a share over the Mediterranean Ottoman…
Fernanda Ruiz
Fernanda Ruiz Briano is an urbanist and architect, MSc Building and Urban Design in Development from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL. Her interests engage with questions of global inequalities and how…