Eterotopia Mignon

Project Team: Dorotea Ottaviani with Kuei Ying Proietti
Year: 2014
Place: Rome (IT), Festival Del Verde di Roma
Category: Landscape Design Competition

Project awarded with Honourable Mention at Contest “Balconi per Roma” as part of the Festival of Landscape of Rome, 2014.

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”

Lewis Carrol, Through the looking glass

Turn the view point upside down and practice for the impossible. Look from the bottom up and through the top down. Transform the habitual in surreal and unexpected!This project is imagined as a toolkit to bring and train people to the surreal, comfortably just outside their living room.

Each balcony of each apartment in each city can morph into a place for clouds and hammocks in between sharp and lustful succulents, where one can wallow, at the same time, literally in and out of their comfort zone.