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Finissage - 6ª biennale svizzera del territorio: Handle with Care

28 November 2026, from 3.30 pm

Villa Saroli, Viale S. Franscini 9, Lugano

The 6th biennale svizzera del territorio “Handle with Care” comes to a close with a day devoted to exchange, encounter and conviviality. The finissage at Villa Saroli offers a moment of open, collective reflection with some of the protagonists of this edition, centred on care for the territory and the landscape: an opportunity to gather what the biennale leaves behind and to take forward the questions that remain open.

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Program

3.30 pm – A journey through “Handle with Care”

Introduction by Ludovica Molo, Director of Istituto Internazionale di Architettura, on the themes of the 6th biennale, followed by the screening of a video dedicated to this edition and a conversation with the authors of the Actions Edible Curtains, (IN)VISIBLE GESTURES, MANU TENERE, May the earth be light upon you and Surface de réparation. A look back at an edition dedicated to an architecture that repairs, maintains and regenerates.

5.30 pm – Round table and opening of the exhibition “CCP07 – Architecture in transition”

In collaboration with Cities Connection Project, the exhibition curated by architects Nicola Regusci and Xavier Bustos returns to Lugano with a selection of 20 projects from Barcelona.

Round table speakers:

Maria Charneco, architect and co-founder of MAIO (Barcelona)
Martino Pedrozzi, architect with an office in Mendrisio
Andreas Sonderegger, architect and co-founder of pool Architektur (Zurich)

→ Find out more about the exhibition and the round table guests

7.00 pm – Welcome address by Roberto Badaracco, Deputy Mayor and Head of the Department of Culture, Sport and Events, City of Lugano

7.30 pm – Sound installation “PALME lvga” by Simone Bernardoni

A sound research project on Lugano and on the relationship between urban identity, memory and belonging, built from field recordings, archival material, testimonies and musical composition. Conceived as a site-specific installation, it takes a different form at each presentation, in dialogue with the place that hosts it.

Followed by – Dinner and DJ set by Xavier Dubois