How do scientists relate to the volcano?
And you, what is your personal relationship with it?
Etna is an inexhaustible source of data that we can measure with special instruments or simply with our bodies.
In this workshop we developed a collective visual language, a vocabulary of signs, a grammar to codify, translate, share, and communicate what the territory tells us.
The Etna landscape is layered: from the coast to the craters, from the center of the earth to the clouds, it presents us with different textures, each with its own invisible language, on different scales and with different structures.
We collected and reproduced these textures in a series of tiles, square elements, building a shared archive to tell the story of both Mount Etna and the connection with this place.
We began with a walk in the Sartorius Mountains to discover the tactile quality of the landscape: through small exercises and simple gestures, we explored the deep time of geology, translating it into a series of patterns, focusing on the rock and atmospheric formations that characterize the volcanic landscape, from the magma reservoirs underground to the horizon and the atmosphere.
Our research was guided by water, its many forms and the traces it leaves on the landscape and our lives.
We thus transformed the abstract into the tactile: recording sensations, recognizing patterns, and translating the elements of the territory through a sensorial approach.
After building a "texture library," a collective and shared atlas of square tiles used to codify the territory's patterns, working as a group we translated the essence of the volcano into five design proposals for a series of scarves that will be prototyped by Lanificio Leo.
We finally exhibited our projects in an exhibition set up at the Academy.
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