A storyboard image combining Futurism and AI showing a brutal cityscape in a futurist world
A structure created by followers to transport the monolith.
The confrontation between primitivism and the existing system.
Depiction of the radical change of Mafia law.
Initial model casting with primitivism in mind.
Development of the sections of internal spaces.
The story of the podesta retold by the townspeople using his teachings.
One of the podestas cave carvings depicting inhabitable space.
THE PODESTA
by Nicholas Hasbani
‘The Podesta’ focuses on body agency, and its relationship with space. This has taken the form of a ‘future ghost’ developed through model making, form finding, and architectural investigation My journey with the podesta has lead me to revive ‘primitivism’, through a fascination of futurism and the works of Antonio Sant’elia. The programme is a responce to the heavy mafia presence in palermo and a need for giving power and justice to those without.
