For centuries, human labor and water shaped Bologna’s canal network. The walk explores the role of the Reno river and the identities formed around the Cavaticcio and Navile canals. With insights from experts in water management, history, and heritage, the itinerary traces the shift from multifunctional waterways to a fragmented waterscape, while highlighting ecological transition policies and public space projects linked to city’s future.

The walk follows the Cesuola from the last visible stretch of water to the point where it disappears underground. Along the route, winding streets and remnants such as former mills reveal the traces of the ancient riverbed, ending at its mouth on the Savio river. Retracing the Cesuola today means restoring the spatial memory of a hidden river.

The walk explores the legacy of Forlì’s Ravaldino Canal, now largely hidden beneath the city. Starting at the Urban Park on Viale dell’Appennino, where water remains visible, the walk follows traces of the canal through streets, mills, bridges, and loggias. The itinerary reflects on the canal’s shift from visible energy artery to invisible infrastructure and collective memory.

This walk in Bosco Malerba, at the foot of Mount Sirino, follows the traces of water through springs and streams shaping a biodiverse landscape. Mirroring water’s journey from mountain to sea, the route connects geology, ecology, and human presence. The recently regenerated forest becomes a space to reflect on design, community, and coexistence between humans and non-humans.

The walk takes place along the Dora River, from Parco Dora to the Corso Regio Parco Footbridge and invites participants to observe the city through the lens of permeability. Participants will engage with local stories, environmental challenges, and forms of fragility, while exploring emerging possibilities for care and the transformation of public space.

An urban riverside walk exploring the relationship between water and the city, following streams, gardens, underground spaces, and fountains to reveal waterscapes, memory, and urban regeneration within the Fenestrelle river park, central to Avellino’s Greening Plan.

A two-section walk along the Fenestrelle and San Francesco waterways, moving between natural and urban landscapes. The first section follows the Fenestrelle through its valley floor, agricultural areas, and the remains of ancient mills; the second traces the San Francesco watercourse between Poggio Solimene, the historic center of Valle, and the 1980s districts built along its former riverbed.

An exploration by bike and on foot along the Adriatic cycle route from San Benedetto del Tronto to Cupra Marittima. Artists, citizens and activists will travel together through a fragile coastal landscape shaped by salt water, river mouths, tourism and infrastructure. Cycling and walking between the sea and the railway, we will observe the tensions between common good and private interests, while imagining alternative, sustainable forms of local mobility.

The Vulture hydro-mineral basin, formed by Mount Vulture’s eruptions and including the Monticchio volcanic lakes, is the largest in Italy. Known for mineral and thermal springs once deemed healing and now economically relevant, it is a landscape where geological deep time meets seasonal cycles. Human activity has long shaped this ecosystem, raising the question of whether a “natural contract” between all stakeholders is possible.

The seminar explores water as a common good shaped by the relationship between communities and the environment, now central to conflicts over access and control. Focusing on Calabria, it examines how privatization, pollution, deforestation, and soil sealing reflect unequal development models linked to the “Capitalocene,” revealing social and ecological contradictions.

The water crisis has brought water management to the forefront. In a territory marked by “water grabbing” and recurring droughts, water becomes both resource and threat, revealing contradictions in development models. From the Pignataro Stream to the Esaro–Tuvolo confluence, the walk crosses polluted and vulnerable areas, bringing together researchers, artists, citizens, and activists to explore waterscapes and reconnect past, present, and possible futures.

The waters of river and sea once met where Parco Marecchia now lies. After the river was diverted to prevent flooding, water still shapes the area through groundwater, ponds, and wetland traces. From Rimini’s old harbour to Parco XXV Aprile, the walk follows the shift from maritime to fluvial landscapes, retracing the link between river, sea, and urban transformation. Participants rediscover hidden water and reflect on its ecological role and future.

This walk explores the Volturno Delta through artistic perspectives and collective movement. Artists, citizens, and researchers cross a wetland marked by memories of hospitality and present-day waste, reflecting on its contradictions and fragile balance between river and sea. Walking becomes a poetic act to imagine non-extractive futures and create an “anarchive” of possibilities.

“Discovering Retrone River” is a collective walking exploration using maps and tools to rediscover a river rich in history and potential, long neglected and transformed. Through forgotten stories, environmental injustices, and voices of people and nature, participants reimagine the river’s future. The event is part of the River Contract “Retrone and its tributaries” and Legambiente Veneto’s “Operazione Fiumi.”