29/12/2025
This year we’re wrapping up 2025 with a project that has kept us busy for almost eight months: Rome in the World, the first urban planning exhibition dedicated to the city of Rome, curated by Ricky Burdett.
The show unfolds across three key sections.
The first, Global Comparison, offers a long, data-driven walk that places Rome side by side with major global metropolises — a Rome that doesn’t celebrate itself but examines, questions, and measures up against other cities.
The second, “Rome in the world’s imagination, is a contemporary wunderkammer, curated by architect Paola Viganò with Maria Medushevskaya, that brings together the visions of great artists from the past 200 years, revealing how Rome has been imagined, represented, and mythologized around the world.
The third, Rome’s DNA, culminates with a dedicated photographic project by Marina Caneve , created specifically for the exhibition, adding a fresh pathway into a more visionary portrait of contemporary Rome, and in a spectacular terracotta model of Rome created by Marco Galofaro , nearly 8 by 8 meters, enhanced by dynamic data projections based on research by Keti Lelo and brought to life through the work of .virtualworlds
We designed the visual identity, data visualizations, and all spatial experiences with one goal: blending the scientific rigor of data with the human, emotional dimension of the visitors’ journey through the exhibition.
Many thanks to the curator Ricky Burdett and to co-curator Izabela Anna Moren , to the whole team of MAXXI and to an incredible production by Media Arte Eventi and SP Systema
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