Amedeo Schiattarella, Architecture is never neutral

04/03/2026

Architecture
is never neutral

4 March 2026

6:30 p.m.

Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Keizersgracht 564, 1017 EM Amsterdam

Listone Giordano, in collaboration with Seed is pleased to invite you to an evening dedicated to responsible design with an eye to the future, thanks to the testimony of a contemporary interpreter of these values.

In this lecture, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Amsterdam, Amedeo Schiattarella presents architecture as a civic and ethical act rooted in place and community. From the “void” as living space to projects in Rome and Saudi Arabia, the talk challenges global homogenization, highlighting architecture as a tool for identity, climate awareness, and social cohesion for those shaping future cities.

THE PRESENTATION
WILL BE HELD
IN ENGLISH

Admission is free, subject to availability.

The lecture will also preview the Seed International Festival, a cultural platform where designers, researchers, and philosophers explore design as action for the future and its key challenges.


Seed Festival
Perugia14 – 17 October
2026

From 14 to 17 October, the Seed Festival, Design action for the future, returns to Perugia. The 2026 edition is dedicated to the concept of Humanity and aims to explore the fragile balance between our social nature and the challenges of the contemporary world, marked by a growing loss of physical reality and a progressive removal of the Other