The GO!2025 Urban Center exhibition has been officially presented at Gorizia Town Hall, bringing together the outcomes of studies, research, and projects developed over the past two academic years within RRR Lab (Integrated Architectural and Built Environment Design Laboratory at UniTS). The focus of this work has been the European Capitals of Culture, with a particular case study on Gorizia – Nova Gorica 2025.

The exhibition will be open to visitors from 31st March to 9 May 2025 in the Atrium Hall of the Conference Centre, at the University Hub in Gorizia, Via Alviano 18. The official inauguration will take place on 8th April at 17:00, followed by the presentation of the book Il corpo della città. Telo Mesta during a roundtable discussion. The event will feature representatives of various local institutions, faculty members from the University of Trieste, and other invited discussants, focusing on themes of architectural and urban regeneration.

The initiative has involved around fifty students and ten faculty members and researchers from UniTS.

The exhibition traces two years of design activities covering a range of themes, locations, scales, and disciplinary fields. These have been explored through seminars, workshops, study days, and architectural, urban, and landscape projects for the two cities, which together form a unique cross-border urban system. As Gorizia and Nova Gorica have prepared for the milestone event of becoming the European Capital of Culture 2025, the focus now shifts to what comes next. The exhibition reflects on the before and after of this transformation, highlighting the role of time in urban and architectural design.

Time, processuality, phased reasoning, and dynamics of transformation—understood as evolutionary biodynamics—have been central themes in the projects showcased. The exhibition presents the ephemeral as a driver of present-day transformation and the trace as a framework for future reflection. These ideas shaped both the 2023–24 laboratory, ‘Gorizia / Nova-Gorica Felix’, and the 2024–25 laboratory, ‘L’éphémère est éternel’.

GO!2025 Urban Center Exhibition

Curated by: Thomas Bisiani, Michela Lupieri, Adriano Venudo 
Scientific Committee: Thomas Bisiani, Alessio Bortot, Luigi Di Dato, Michela Lupieri, Giulia Piccinin, Sonia Prestamburgo, Adriano Venudo 
Studies and projects by: Collettivo Colgo and Collettivo VAGO

To book an appointment and for information, contact tbisiani@units.it or avenudo@units.it