Preennale of Water 2024 (Preennale dell’acqua 2024) welcomes artists, architects, activists, writers, researchers, designers, planners and others to a transdisciplinary gathering in Naples, Italy. Together, they will imagine, discuss, create and design effective and durable responses to a range of local/regional and trans-national/global water issues.
Preennale will foster the renewal of our intimate and vital connection to water, the reuse of Naples’ ancient Greco-Roman underground water network to countervail global warming and urban heat islands; a bottom-up action to resurrecting the city’s communal water heritage; a communal reaction on water scarcity. Preennale curators will design urban water utopias, imagining new eco-cultural paradigms, reasserting water as Commons, and more. Under the umbrella of commoning, they will engage in a collaborative exchange, workshops, presentations, site tours, round table discussions, performances, community engaged art projects, music and other participatory practices giving back creative interventions in public space.
