Giuseppina Forte

Political lives of environments

Architect and scholar working on contested ground. I study how infrastructure and extraction remake landscapes, and how people build their homes on them, from the self-built peripheries of São Paulo to the mines of Sardinia.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO URBAN SPACE
Contesti 2 (2024), Firenze University Press
CONCRETE: ASSEMBLING MODERNITY IN MEXICO CITY
Ciudad de México: Siete Categorías Materiales, UAM Press, 2025
EMBODYING PERIPHERIES
Co-edited with Kuan Hwa, Firenze University Press, 2022
THE ARCHITECTURE OF WAITING
Deferral on São Paulo’s Uneven Ground, Book in progress
INNER SEDIMENT
Fine-art print on rigid panel, 27×38 cm. Series: After Extraction, 2025
THE PLURIVERSE PAVILION
Williams College Student Workshop, Design & Built, 2024
SUBTERRANEAN TENSIONS
Masua Cave & Nebida Mine, Plaster, 2025
RAISING THE GROUD, CLIMBING THE TREES (in press)
Witness and Protest for the Cutting of Mathilde Tree, East River Park NYC 2023. Photo: Alice O’Malley
TOXIC INFRASTRUCTURE
Portovesme, Google Maps, 2025
SALTMARSH
Photograph (post-produced), 2025
THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION
Survey sketches, Grotta del Soffione, 2025
SECTION OF A BODY
Sa Crovassa, Sardinia, 2026