Beatrice Citterio
Beatrice Citterio is an eco-social designer and researcher specializing in landscape and cultural heritage design. She investigates territorial changes and land management using diverse media, including geo-referenced mapping, fieldwork, photography, and archival research. Currently, she is studying territorial transformations leading up to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games through a multidisciplinary lens, with a focus on diachronic comparisons and the role of language. Her first major project, Precious Games: Observatory on the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, is a self-produced, tabloid-style fanzine examining the local and trans-regional dynamics of the Games.
Together with Gianni Mittempergher, the researcher leads the participants on a hike to nearby Cima Pozzoni, a panoramic viewpoint overlooking Rifugio Carè Alto and the peaks surrounding the glacier.
In this evocative setting, Beatrice introduces two readings that explore the perception of alpine landscapes and the processes through which images are produced and commodified. Building on these reflections, she invites participants to imagine taking a photograph without using a camera. Instead, the images are translated into words and recorded through writing.
The exercise expands the time devoted to observation, encouraging a more attentive process of selection regarding what enters the visual field and what is ultimately worth capturing. The resulting texts then become the basis for visual representations, sometimes descriptive and sometimes abstract, in a process that reverses the logic of contemporary text-to-image production: from the experience of the landscape to language, and from language back to image.
Readings:
- excerpt from L’altro e l’altrove (The Other and Elsewhere) by Marco Aime and Davide Papotti (2012, pp. 22–29);
- excerpt from I draghi delle Alpi. Cambiamenti climatici, Antropocene e immaginari di ghiaccio (Dragons of the Alps: Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and Imaginaries of Ice) by Elisabetta Dall’Ò.
