Filippo Romano, The Nairobi Project + web lecture for the Visual Arts ISCFI series

This week, besides our already beloved takeover, we double our appointments: on Thursday May 28th, 7 pm, Filippo Romano will hold a web lecture for the Visual Arts ISCFI series. Here the zoom link!

“I started photographing Nairobi in 2011 on a trip with Liveinslum ONG, with the aim of documenting the construction of an elementary school in Mathare ghetto.At first it was about the school, then about the ghetto where 500.000 people were living, about its economical and urbanistic structure and from 2015 about the whole city, its neighbourhoods, its “gates communities”, its urban geography.

The Nairobi Project is a long term project where the Kenian capital city represents just a case study, made of old and new urban spaces crossings, and of encountres between communities which are very different. It is an archive of places and situations of a changing Nairobi, of every day life events. Its final shape will be made by an anthology of small size publications and book dummies, a series of fragments beloging to an open and unlimited narrative.”

Filippo Romano was born in 1968, after studying in I.S.I.A., Urbino, he moved to New York, where he attended the I.C.P. He lives and works in Milano. He’s collaborate with Skira for the architectural sector and published on Abitare, Domus, Io donna, The Plan, Rivista Studio. In 2007 he published the book Soleritown about the architect Paolo Soleri work and in 2007 won the Pesaresi/Contrasto prize with his project OFF China. He had his work on show at both 2010 and 2014 Venice Architecture Biennal. Since 2011 he’s been working on a long term project on Nairobi, also part of the show Made in slums at Milano Triennale. In 2014 he showed at Canadian Center of Architecture C.C.A. the project Found in Translation, curated by Guido Beltramini ,on the influence of Palladio in Thomas Jefferson’s archetectures. He teaches at Forma/Naba and at IUAV Master on photography. In 2018 he published The Resident Welfare witha+mbookstore and won the Kassel Dummy award with the project Nairobi Watertanks. He’s now working on a project about the effects of Vaia wind storm for Fabbri Foundation, Pieve di Soligo.