ARCHIPELAGO WEAVERS

Elisa Giuliano (Archipelago Weaver 2025-2026) introducing Matera (Italy). PAF (St.Erme), September 2025. Photo credit: Nikos Doulos.

After extensive moorings in

Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2018 (guided by Archipelago Weaver: Galit Eilat), 

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, in 2019 (guided by Archipelago Weaver: Luca Carboni),

Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia,  in 2020 (guided by Archipelago Weaver: Aziza Harmel),

Bergamo, Italy,  in 2022 (guided by Archipelago Weaver: Sara Benaglia),

Isola di Salina, Sicily, Italy, in 2023 (guided by Archipelago Weavers: Niccolò Masini + Elettra Bottazzi),

Nida, Curonian Spit, Lithuania,  in 2023 ( guided by Archipelago Weaver: Egija Inzule)

Essaouira, Morocco, in 2024 (guided by Archipelago Weavers: Laila Hida + Kaoutar Chakir),

Nicosia, Cyprus, in 2025 (guided by Archipelago Weaver: Marina Christodoulidou),

Matera, Basilicata, Italy, will be the next location where DAI's "soft spaceship" is enthusiastically invited to land ~ temporarily, but as a way of building hopefully lasting collaborations and friendships.

This will be made possible thanks to the unwavering efforts of our Archipelago Weaver 2026: Elisa Giuliano, the latest DAI person who poetically and practically manages to relate and connect our Roaming Academy to a place they themselves so deeply care for.

Our gratitude goes out to Elisa, and we hope her visionary work will be inspirational to many others (alumni, tutors, friends) who want to step in her big shoes and become the

Archipelago Weavers of DAI-futures near and far.

Neolithic burial site ~ excavation works of the late 19th century at Tricarico, near Matera. Museo Nazionale Domenico Ridola.