Alter eco amplifies voices and perspectives often overlooked in dominant sustainability narratives. Far from offering ready-made solutions, it opens a space for reflection, an invitation to see the Earth not as a resource to exploit, but as a web of relationships to nurture, recognising that identity is not what separates us from nature, but what connects us to it.

Alter eco[teca] is a digital archive where ecocentric stories, practices, and visions intertwine: a transmedia extension of the print magazine, gathering its voices into a single, ever-evolving narrative ecosystem.

The project stems from a theoretical investigation into contemporary transit spaces, arriving at a central question: how can mobility spaces, commonly perceived as anonymous non-places, be transformed into places capable of generating meaning in everyday life and in relationships?

Accessible only during transit, the archive collects personal traces left by users – images, sounds, words, objects – transforming suspended in-between time into an opportunity to observe, remember, and give new significance to the spaces we move through.

The first issue, Pressure, explores pressure as an invisible force acting on bodies, infrastructures, and systems. It unfolds through four progressive stages – Accumulation, Compression, Deformation, Breaking Point – making tangible how tension builds, intensifies, and eventually exceeds systemic thresholds.

The material dimension is inseparable from the concept: metal inserts, binder clips, debossing, and varied paper stocks transform the magazine into a perceptual apparatus, where weight, friction, and resistance become active elements, making pressure visible, physical, and immediate.

Mito/Serie unfolds the tension between Myth and Series, between the classical ideal of Beauty, defined by balance, proportion, and perfection, and the processes of construction, replication, and seriality that inevitably underlie it. Once the objective canon collapses, giving way to subjectivity and extreme personalization, what form does the Unsustainable Ineffability of Beauty take today?

The installation unfolds through symmetry, curved forms, and concentric circular geometries, evoking the ripple of a drop of water, where the center marks the breaking of the myth. Classical and neoclassical sculptures are juxtaposed with iconic design objects across 27 works, guided by key terms that trace the narrative connections between them.

The installation weaves together the epic narrative of Ajax, identified in the Belvedere Torso, with spatial strategies that make the pavilion an extension of the sculpture itself. Concealed from immediate view, the Torso embodies Ajax's shame and contemplation before his suicide. Material absences echo the sculpture's mutilation, extending the notion of missing parts to the architecture itself.

Built on a system of concentric octagons, the spatial composition leads visitors gradually toward the sculpture, enabling a 360° encounter with the hero at his moment of despair. Vertical and horizontal openings filter natural light into sharp, cascading highlights, heightening the theatricality of the experience, where architecture, light, and form converge into a contemplative space suspended between loss, beauty, and myth.