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Labs

Learning built into acts of territorial protocolization

A Lab is a learning module focused on redeploying a developed protocol within a new territorial context. Its form is the classical apprenticeship, run as an accelerated cycle of theory, practice and critique. A conceptual introduction grounds participants in Territorial State Craft and in the technique their deployment requires. From there the work moves to the field, where a full exercise in place-based protocolization transfers know-how mimetically, from the people shaping the discipline at its highest level to those joining it. Labs conclude with a generative critique in which participants assess the limits the local instance revealed in the protocol, and relay their recommendations to Liminal's protocolizers. Labs form the cohorts a young discipline needs most: independent thinkers made in the field, ready to carry the art into territories and institutions of their own.

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  • Four slide decks fanned out on a cream ground, the Valderice si move cover in front of a photograph of a Sicilian hill town

    Forum LEADER Giovani 2025

    EventWorkshop / 2025

    Status
    Past
    People
    Nicolás Delgado AlcegaGabriele Pizzi
    Partners
    Rete Nazionale PAC – Rete LEADERGAL Castelli Romani e Monti Prenestini
    Location
    Buseto PalizzoloMisiliscemiValdericeVitaMarsalaAltavilla Milicia

    Applied training and territorial service with 38 participants under 35, hosted by four comunes in the GAL Elimos area of Sicily.

  • A group walking along a sunlit road lined with trees, hills behind

    Liminal Lab Valbrevenna

    EventWorkshop / 2023

    Identifier
    LLVAL2023
    Status
    Past
    People
    Stefano RossiJuan Walker
    Partners
    Regione LiguriaFondazione Compagnia di San PaoloComune di ValbrevennaParco Regionale Naturale dell’AntolaPontificia Universidad Católica de ChilePolitecnico di Milano

    A three-week residential workshop in 2023: students lived in Carsi, mapped nine villages and tied their proposals to the Antola Regional Park.

  • A group walking on a woodland path in Valle delle Canucette, Castel San Pietro Romano

    Liminal Lab Monti Prenestini

    EventCourse / 2022

    Identifier
    LLMP2022
    Status
    Past
    People
    Nicolás Delgado Alcega
    Partners
    Ministero della CulturaComune di Castel San Pietro RomanoComune di Capranica PrenestinaComune di Rocca di CaveMassachusetts Institute of Technology
    Location
    Castel San Pietro RomanoCapranica PrenestinaGuadagnoloRocca di CaveZagarolo

    The first Liminal Lab in Monti Prenestini: a Fall 2022 course in which 18 University of Miami architecture students surveyed 486 buildings in four historic centers.