Please join us for a conversation with Andrea Bagnato on his new book Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape, published by MACK.

In Terra Infecta, Bagnato shows how the modern quest for sanitation shaped Italy’s urban and rural landscapes, propelling major transformations from the draining of the wetlands around Venice, to demolitions and replanning in Naples, to the expulsion of the inhabitants of ancient Matera. Drawing on architectural records, medical history, and the author’s own travels, Terra Infecta reveals the lived realities of grand schemes, traces of vanished communities, and forgotten histories of collective organisation and resistance.

This event is free of charge, but space is limited, so registration is recommended.

Andrea Bagnato is an architect and writer. He has curated exhibitions, taught and lectured widely, and published books. Working both independently and for cultural institutions, his thinking is concerned with the politics of health, illness and contamination, and with the impact that different conceptions of the body have on the space around us. He was a CCA research fellow in 2023.