Hosted from January 24, 2026, in the project room curated by Rosita Ronzini, La Via dei Laghi by Simone Scardino emerges from the observation of new Alpine lakes formed by glacial melt—fragile yet powerful symbols of climate change. Through an approach that brings together scientific research, imagination, and collective participation, the project room becomes a shared laboratory. Children will be invited to “invent” new lakes, giving shape, names, and life to imaginary geographies. Through drawings, collages, small sculptures, and maquettes, an archive of unprecedented and visionary geographies will come to life. All the material produced will flow into the creation of a large environmental installation—a kind of walkable “play-track” that will occupy the room like a territory in continuous growth. Built progressively from the gestures and perspectives of the participants, the work presents itself as a collective organism, an evolving landscape that reflects on the fragility of the environment and on the active role of the community in constructing new ecological narratives. Each invented lake becomes an act of poetic resistance, an attempt to restore meaning to what is disappearing and to imagine possible futures.

La Via dei Laghi is an invitation to consider the landscape not as an immobile backdrop, but as a living place in which nature and culture mutually influence one another. A space of transformation, where water—fluid, unstable, and generative—becomes narrative material and a tool for connection. Through this participatory device, the project questions the way we inhabit the world and asks us to collectively rethink the relationship between community and environment, between reality and imagination.