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Alessia Bertini

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making and researching trough architecture
+teaching @universumcarrouseljourney
+deputy editor @distigmo
mainly in Zürich

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EPHEMERAL AGENTS — BOOK IN PROGRESS

Ephemeral Agents is a programme developed by @concentricofestival x DISTIGMO
and co-directed by Javier Peña—Ibáñez and Gregory Tsantilas.

The book is the third act of the programme.

ACT 01 — Ephemeral Agents Symposium / Exhibition
Zurich, 2025

ACT 02 — Ephemeral Agents Summer School
Logroño, 2026

ACT 03 — Ephemeral Agents Book
DISTIGMO, 2027

The book brings together 70 contributions
from more than 100 authors:
-20 Articles
-7 contributions from Symposium Speakers
-43 contributions from Exhibition Participants

The publication frames and expands the discussions of the symposium around the relationship between ephemeral interventions and their potential for long-term effects.

Publisher:
DISTIGMO @distigmo

Editors:
Alessia Bertini @alessia_snd
Steffen Hägele @steffenhagele
Javier Peña–Ibáñez @jpenaibanez
Gregory Tsantilas @gtsantilas

Design:
Jahn Koutrios @jahnkoutrios

Supported by agps, atelierburkhaltersumi taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @alessia_snd

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23 days ago

Dear friends, neighbours, friends of friends and strangers,

We officially invite you to the opening of our studio. We look forward to seeing both new and familiar faces and do some overhours with us.

Music by Jacob + Samuele @samvelae @jacob.hoeppner
Installation by Anton + Juliette (@realityworks.global) @antonkrebs_ @b0ole4nxt3ars
29. May, from 6pm
Aemtlerstrasse 92a, EG

We hope to see you there! by @alessia_snd

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6 months ago

Ordinary Fiction: Inquiry on he genesis of domestic mythologies

Alessia Bertini, Margherita Marri

Teaching Assistant: Veronica Arnoldi

For decades, the detached house has been a symbol of security and success, offering a tangible way to store family wealth and providing a private heaven. The bigger project of living emerged pushing forward the equation wealth=independance and these ideals gradually encouraged towards atomization of society and the elimination of any form of aggregation, except for the collective rituals embedded in consumption. In changing environemental, social and economical conditions, symbols of belonging are called to be questioned.

Taking as a case study a middle-class single-family house located in the village of Lommel, Belgium, the exercise proposed to the students is to retrofit this culturally outdated and economically unsustainable heritage by acting upon — and reconfiguring three surfaces of its envelope.

The exercise employs two parallel tools: the critical video and the model. The first follows the principle of operative détournement; the second materializes it through design at scale.

I. The front yard is reconceived from a symbol of order and privatized display into a transparent, transformable enclosure where spontaneous vegetation and public signs coexist, redefining it as a mutable interface between domestic interior and collective space.

II. The roof is opened to introduce light and generate a rentable sub-unit that addresses economic precarity, while the addition of a publicly oriented terrace disrupts suburban enclosure and reclaims a shared right to the horizon.

III. The backyard is transformed through excavation into a light-filled, semi-collective infrastructure that converts the private garden and basement from spaces of accumulation and isolation into an ecological and social commons.

IDW Antwerp 2026

Images: 1. Final Exhibition Setting 2. Film still from Ideal Home Exhibition (1960) 3. Stephen McCoy, Proximity ( 1980 - 1984) 4.Process Sketches 5. Workshop Brief 6–9. Film stills from student projects by @alessia_snd

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ORDINARY FICTION

Inquiry in the genesis of domestic mythologies

IDW ANTWERP 09.02.2026 - 13.02.2026

The suburban single-family house is a paradigmatic device of neoliberal psychogeography: the minimal spatial unit of post-war political projects of privatization, financial individualism, and the nuclear organization of life. In changing environemental, social and economical conditions, symbols of belonging are called to be questioned.

The workshop is part of a research-based shared project by @alessia_snd and @doramarkus_ by @alessia_snd

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8 months ago

Closing the year by sharing photos from our last event - made possible by 4 curators, 14 speakers, 49 exhibitors chosen from 160+ submitted projects to our Open Call, and 6 supporters.

Thank you all for being part of this!

Ephemeral Agents, held in Zurich on Thursday 11.12, under the joint umbrella of Concéntrico @concentricofestival and DISTIGMO @distigmo

Curators:
Alessia Bertini @alessia_snd
Steffen Hägele @steffenhagele
Javier Peña-Ibáñez @jpenaibanez
Gregory Tsantilas @gtsantilas

Speakers:
ALIAS (Team Electryone) @alias.ooo
Comte/Meuwly (Team Electryone) @comte_meuwly
DU Studio @detouruniverse
Forms of Commons @formsofcommons
KOSMOS @kosmos_architects
Nicolas König (Team Electryone)
@nicolasthomaskoenig @820.works
Blanka Major (Team Electryone) @bla_nka
Pierre Marmy (Team Electryone) @pierre_marmy
Parabase @parabase.eu
Johanna Roth (Team Electryone) @johanna____roth
Vitali Studio @vitali_studio
ZAS* @furlygurl

Supporters:
agps @agps_architecture
atelierburkhaltersumi @marianneburkhalter
PARK ARCH @park_arch_
+ 3 silent supporters

Food:
La Finestra da Pepe @la_finestra___

Ephemeral Agents Symposium took place at Gallery House Zurich @galleryhouse.zurich - Quellenstrasse 27, 8005 Zürich. taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @alessia_snd

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10 months ago

Closing the year by sharing photos from our last event - made possible by 4 curators, 14 speakers, 49 exhibitors chosen from 160+ submitted projects to our Open Call, and 6 supporters.

Thank you all for being part of this!

Ephemeral Agents, held in Zurich on Thursday 11.12, under the joint umbrella of Concéntrico @concentricofestival and DISTIGMO @distigmo

Curators:
Alessia Bertini @alessia_snd
Steffen Hägele @steffenhagele
Javier Peña-Ibáñez @jpenaibanez
Gregory Tsantilas @gtsantilas

Speakers:
ALIAS (Team Electryone) @alias.ooo
Comte/Meuwly (Team Electryone) @comte_meuwly
DU Studio @detouruniverse
Forms of Commons @formsofcommons
KOSMOS @kosmos_architects
Nicolas König (Team Electryone)
@nicolasthomaskoenig @820.works
Blanka Major (Team Electryone) @bla_nka
Pierre Marmy (Team Electryone) @pierre_marmy
Parabase @parabase.eu
Johanna Roth (Team Electryone) @johanna____roth
Vitali Studio @vitali_studio
ZAS* @furlygurl

Supporters:
agps @agps_architecture
atelierburkhaltersumi @marianneburkhalter
PARK ARCH @park_arch_
+ 3 silent supporters

Food:
La Finestra da Pepe @la_finestra___

Ephemeral Agents Symposium took place at Gallery House Zurich @galleryhouse.zurich - Quellenstrasse 27, 8005 Zürich. taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @alessia_snd

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10 months ago

Closing the year by sharing photos from our last event - made possible by 4 curators, 14 speakers, 49 exhibitors chosen from 160+ submitted projects to our Open Call, and 6 supporters.

Thank you all for being part of this!

Ephemeral Agents, held in Zurich on Thursday 11.12, under the joint umbrella of Concéntrico @concentricofestival and DISTIGMO @distigmo

Curators:
Alessia Bertini @alessia_snd
Steffen Hägele @steffenhagele
Javier Peña-Ibáñez @jpenaibanez
Gregory Tsantilas @gtsantilas

Speakers:
ALIAS (Team Electryone) @alias.ooo
Comte/Meuwly (Team Electryone) @comte_meuwly
DU Studio @detouruniverse
Forms of Commons @formsofcommons
KOSMOS @kosmos_architects
Nicolas König (Team Electryone)
@nicolasthomaskoenig @820.works
Blanka Major (Team Electryone) @bla_nka
Pierre Marmy (Team Electryone) @pierre_marmy
Parabase @parabase.eu
Johanna Roth (Team Electryone) @johanna____roth
Vitali Studio @vitali_studio
ZAS* @furlygurl

Supporters:
agps @agps_architecture
atelierburkhaltersumi @marianneburkhalter
PARK ARCH @park_arch_
+ 3 silent supporters

Food:
La Finestra da Pepe @la_finestra___

Ephemeral Agents Symposium took place at Gallery House Zurich @galleryhouse.zurich - Quellenstrasse 27, 8005 Zürich.

Photography by Pierre Marmy @pierre_marmy taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @alessia_snd

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Christmas Book Sale, this Friday at thirtythree ✨✨✨

Next to the launch of P.G.R. we will also host @care.of.bardi @superposition.global and @distigmo for a special Christmas book/magazine sale with bags by @meduse.milano curated by EDIZIONI C/O BARDI.
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See you there with a lot of lambrusco, a wonderful DJ Set by @carolinacatarino and many good books ✨✨✨
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thirthythree
Muellerstrasse 33
8004 Zürich
12.12.25
5-10 pm by @alessia_snd

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Ephemeral Agents Symposium is a joint programme developed by Concéntrico × DISTIGMO @concentricofestival x @distigmo

The Ephemeral Agents Symposium looks at how temporary architectural projects can have a lasting impact on the city. Architects and designers are invited to address how a temporary project can shift how people use, see, or think about urban spaces.

Curators:
Alessia Bertini @alessia_snd
Steffen Hägele @steffenhagele
Javier Peña-Ibáñez @jpenaibanez
Gregory Tsantilas @gtsantilas

Speakers:
ALIAS (Team Electryone) @alias.ooo
Comte/Meuwly (Team Electryone) @comte_meuwly
DU Studio @detouruniverse
Forms of Commons @formsofcommons
KOSMOS @kosmos_architects
Nicolas König (Team Electryone)
@nicolasthomaskoenig @820.works
Blanka Major (Team Electryone) @bla_nka
Pierre Marmy (Team Electryone) @pierre_marmy
Parabase @parabase.eu
Johanna Roth (Team Electryone) @johanna____roth
Vitali Studio @vitali_studio
ZAS*

Supporters:
agps @agps_architecture
atelierburkhaltersumi @marianneburkhalter
PARK ARCH @park_arch_

Food:
La Finestra da Pepe @la_finestra___

The programme combines an exhibition of projects selected through Open Call A, and a symposium featuring invited speakers.

Ephemeral Agents will take place at Gallery House Zurich @galleryhouse.zurich - Quellenstrasse 27, 8005 Zürich.

Thursday 11.12.2025
Exhibition 16:00-23:00
Symposium 18:30-21:00 taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @alessia_snd

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10 months ago

Booklaunch + Christmas Book Sale at thirtythree ✨

Please join us on Friday, December 12, at Müllerstrasse 33 for the presentation of PGR — a dialogue through images collected and edited by Marina Montresor and Alessia Bertini, designed by Maria Peskina.

Tracing vows and affection, tributes to hope and materialised rituals, PGR marks the beginning of a joint research project that will bring together artists, writers, and thinkers between C/O BARDI and Ballaria

There will be drinks, music by caro @carolinacatarino and a special Christmas book sale curated by EDIZIONI C/O BARDI.
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Müllerstrasse 33
12.12.25
17:00–22:00 by @alessia_snd

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Ephemeral Agents Symposium is a joint programme developed by Concéntrico × DISTIGMO @concentricofestival x @distigmo

The Ephemeral Agents Symposium looks at how temporary architectural projects can have a lasting impact on the city. Architects and designers are invited to address how a temporary project can shift how people use, see, or think about urban spaces.

Curators:
Alessia Bertini @alessia_snd
Steffen Hägele @steffenhagele
Javier Peña-Ibáñez @jpenaibanez
Gregory Tsantilas @gtsantilas

Speakers:
ALIAS (Team Electryone) @alias.ooo
Comte/Meuwly (Team Electryone) @comte_meuwly
DU Studio @detouruniverse
Forms of Commons @formsofcommons
KOSMOS @kosmos_architects
Nicolas König (Team Electryone)
@nicolasthomaskoenig @820.works
Blanka Major (Team Electryone) @bla_nka
Pierre Marmy (Team Electryone) @pierre_marmy
Parabase @parabase.eu
Johanna Roth (Team Electryone) @johanna____roth
Vitali Studio @vitali_studio
ZAS*

Exhibitors:
To be announced

Supporters:
agps @agps_architecture
atelierburkhaltersumi @marianneburkhalter
PARK ARCH @park_arch_

Food:
La Finestra da Pepe @la_finestra___

The programme combines an exhibition of projects selected through Open Call A, and a symposium featuring invited speakers.

Ephemeral Agents will take place at Gallery House Zurich @galleryhouse.zurich - Quellenstrasse 27, 8005 Zürich.

Thursday 11.12.2025
Exhibition 16:00-23:00
Symposium 18:30-21:00 taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @alessia_snd

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