"Bodies and cities. Performative urban landscapes" is the title of the exhibition set up in the spaces of the Museum of Classical Art at Sapienza University of Rome, from May 29 to June 30, 2025.

Conceived and curated by Gianni Celestini, Giulia Marino, Annalisa Metta, the exhibition explores the centrality of the architectures of behaviors – the ways in which the bodies that inhabit and traverse the city define and shape its spaces – in various fields of contemporary culture, including landscape design, photography, sociology, and visual arts. The aim is to describe the performativity of the urban public space of our time, reading and questioning the city as a social and spatial pact, a composition of existences and therefore of bodies, individual and collective, human and non-human, that oversee and shape the shared space.

The exhibited materials – projects, drawings, books, videos, photographs, artworks, articulated in the five sections Habits, Coexistences, Escapes, Physiologies, Rituals – depict some of the countless ways in which bodies act and reshape the collective space, outlining the common features of practices of inhabiting the city, both spontaneous and planned. On display among others, works and projects, works and research by Agence TVK, Animal Aided Design, Bêka & Lemoine, Bruit du Frigo, Matilde Cassani, LOLA Landscape Architects, MODU Architecture, MVRDV, OOZE, Studio Ossidiana, Gabriele Rossi, Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten.