Micro wooden architecture for getting lost and finding yourself.

Starting from the work of Poesia Naturalis, the Fo_Rest workshop is the creation of micro-architectures in the woods for getting lost and finding oneself, it was structured into two design sessions. The first took place seated in a circle inside a room at the Rifugio dell’Aquila in Ligonchio, while the second, once again seated in a circle, was held under the stars around a fire at the Campo Base Girotondo in Cervarezza. From these two co-design sessions emerged Gio-Coso, a slow-paced game to be played with the forests of the Apennines.

Through the in-depth exploration of four working groups, Gio-Coso evolved into a hybrid creation: an artefact-sculpture, a territorial network project for sustainable tourism, a permaculture strategy, and a communication project. Using only woodworking scraps, the artefact-sculpture took shape as a three-dimensional chessboard, designed to host micro-architectures meant to be inhabited, altered, and transformed by the forest and its creatures. In a new intersubjective ritual between humans and the woodland, both playful and spiritual, Gio-Coso fosters an innovative relationship with the natural environment.