𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀 -𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹
19 – 20 – 21 September 2025
Castiglione dei Pepoli (BO)

Saturday 20 September, from 11 AM to 10 PM
Piazza della Libertà
Market

As part of the fifth edition of Terrapolis – Transversal Ecologies Festival, on Saturday 20 September, a market awaits you featuring independent publishing, self-productions, zines, artist publications, crafts, second-hand goods, and much more.

The market brings together a wide range of practices across visual research, DIY culture, and reuse: it will be an opportunity to discover over thirty craft-based projects, all expressions of independent creativity and research.


EXHIBITORS

AtTempto
AtTempto is an independent magazine that weaves together visual arts, cultural criticism, politics, and essay writing. It was born from the desire to create a space for reflection on the present through hybrid formats and authorial contributions that reject mainstream logics. At their booth, they will present their printed issues – each conceived as a standalone editorial object with a distinct graphic and thematic curation – to showcase the project, browse the pages together, and spark new connections. The three published issues explore the themes of greatness, art, and dissent.

Giulia Bonora
Giulia Bonora (Ferrara, 1986) lives and works in Bologna, where she studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. Giulia makes inner processes visible, exploring the concept of conviviality in relationships. Her work synthesizes the relationship between full and empty, content and container, inside and outside. She uses a variety of media and mixed techniques, including drawing, sculpture, performance, and installation, following a process-based methodology. Recently, she has begun a new artistic dialogue with ceramics.

BIS – Bologna Innovation Square
An open innovation platform promoted by the Metropolitan City and Municipality of Bologna, in collaboration with universities, research centers, and strategic partners. It supports digitalization and ecological transition for local businesses. BIS acts as an innovation hub, fostering collaboration among local entities and striving to make the metropolitan economic system competitive and sustainable. It is implemented through hubs of the Metropolitan Knowledge Network, funded by the NRRP, offering tailored services for different areas and promoting green and digital transitions, entrepreneurship, talent attraction, and resident retention.

Cappellaie matte
Ginevra and Marianna, a mother-daughter duo from Rome, began crocheting and knitting during the pandemic and haven’t stopped since. This journey strengthened their bond and allowed them to rediscover the joy of slow, handmade work—creating what they want without relying on fast fashion. For them, crochet holds therapeutic, social, and sustainable value, leading to the creation of hats, balaclavas, tops, bags, and necklaces.

Dhalgren – Tarot and Bibliomancy

Dy’o Skin
Dy’o Skin was born from the dream of two young women: to create natural products by exploring and using local herbs. Over the past year, the project has grown through training and courses across various Italian cities, diving deep into the secrets of natural cosmetics. At its core is a philosophy of respecting and valuing the local territory and raw materials.

Elhaz
Elhaz Mari produces various handmade items using recycled textiles, including necklaces, earrings, and photographs. She also presents a series of images from a project dedicated to Palestine, with all proceeds going to charity.

Erbacce Fest – ZSD
Erbacce Fest is a cultural and participatory project born in Prato that aims to rediscover and celebrate wild herbs, often seen as marginal but rich in stories, knowledge, and shared imagery. The festival blends artistic practices, botanical knowledge, and local memories, creating an intergenerational dialogue among researchers, artists, activists, students, and memory keepers. Wild herbs become symbols of resistance and regeneration—able to thrive in hostile spaces, just as independent culture takes root in communities. Through self-published zines, performances, and public presentations, the festival reimagines the relationship between nature and the city.

Felicita
Felicita is a project dedicated to cultivating and harvesting medicinal herbs for the creation of herbal remedies. It began in 2021 with hemp and gradually focused on spontaneous local plants, combining agricultural practice with a small fanzine and workshops. They use agroecological techniques in cultivation, and foraging and processing are inspired by gemmotherapy and spiritual herbalism. Their products include CBD oil, tinctures, glycerine macerates, aromatic salts, and pumpkin/topinambur creams.

Fomento
Fomento is an independent graphic design and screen printing studio based in Bologna. It focuses on graphic design and artisanal printing techniques, collaborating with artists and local organizations.

Kamala – Wild Magic

Lāhainā Noon
Lāhainā Noon is a publication by Lucrezia Zucconi and Camilla Cipriani inspired by the rare astronomical phenomenon where shadows disappear at solar zenith in the tropics. From this event comes a philosophical-sci-fi reflection on the relationship between light, matter, and consciousness. At its core is a continuous text, a cosmic and existential narrative in which the disappearance of shadows reveals a dimension of purity and suspension. Visually, it features digital collages enriched with airbrushed and scanned elements, creating futuristic imagery that portrays the metamorphosis of light and matter.

Madeline – Handmade Ceramic Jewelry
Madeline is a small project born from the hands and ideas of Francesca and Roberta. With backgrounds in visual arts and sculpture, they created a collection of unique ceramic jewelry pieces. Each piece holds something magical: care, love for detail, and the special mark of handmade work. Like a game, Madeline can become a mermaid, a witch, a sailor, a flower, a clown, or a rabbit. These symbols become small presences to carry with you—objects that turn into wearable stories.

Malamente Edizioni
Malamente Edizioni is a publishing house from the Marche region, founded in 2021 from the experience of Malamente Magazine. Inspired by the elusive spirit of wildcats and black cats in subversive traditions, it gives voice to authors dealing with radical political thought, social critique, investigations, popular history, and territorial narratives. Its catalog features five interconnected series with a distinct style, aimed at being tools for cultural analysis and agitation.

Vincenzo Marzella
Vincenzo Marzella (Taranto, 1987) began exploring photography at a very young age, soon turning his passion into a profession. After studying at DAMS in Bologna and learning darkroom techniques from Andrea Calabresi, he specialized in analog black-and-white photography, personally handling development and printing. He has worked in fashion and clothing, exhibited in shows, and led educational projects. In 2023, he opened Zona III darkroom at Parsec, focusing on courses and personal research. His work mainly explores travel, nature, and architecture.

MATERIALE Project Room
Piccolo Museo Project Room MATERIALE is a dynamic archive and container for cultural and artistic projects with communities. It preserves and shares photographic, graphic, and literary materials and documents creative processes. The project highlights the intangible cultural heritage of local areas, involving citizens with a focus on peripheral areas seen as key laboratories. The digital archive collects family memories and materials donated by residents, digitized and reinterpreted into new narrative forms. For Terrapolis, MATERIALE presents a participatory station to record personal and family memories, along with an exhibition of fanzines created in collaboration with CUT | Temporary Urban Circuit over the years.

Pianeta LAB
Pianeta Association was founded to build a fairer and more sustainable future, combining environmental, social, and civic engagement. It is a young and dynamic network of activists, researchers, professionals, and students, with offices in Modena, Bologna, Rome, and a new team in Brussels. Its vision centers on environmental protection, democracy, human rights, inclusion, and active citizen participation. Through events, cultural projects, and public initiatives, Pianeta promotes new forms of activism, combining research, communication, and participatory tools to tackle today’s major challenges.

Sans Serif Love Poems
Sans Serif Love Poems is an accordion-style book about Porto Marghera, an industrial area near Venice, its brutalist forms, bittersweet feelings, and the fierce core of things.

Alice Savini
Alice Savini was born in Rimini in 1987. She began as a painter and later studied illustration, attending courses at Ars in Fabula and the Zavrel Foundation. She has participated in group exhibitions including Le immagini della fantasia 41 (as a student), Teatro disegnato – ABABO and ERT. She attended the illustration MA program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Recently, she has collaborated with Isola series and inquietomag magazine.

THE DOCKS
Founded in 2020 in Naples, THE DOCKS is an association that promotes auteur photography through an inclusive approach, exploring photographic experimentation and its intersections with other visual arts. Through THE DOCKS PUBLISHING, they produce zines and editorial projects linked to workshops with photographers and professionals. For Terrapolis, they present the series Trentatrè, four volumes portraying different areas of Naples through the eyes of artists and illustrators, offering a fresh narrative of the city’s social and cultural fabric.

The Light We Traded
The Light We Traded is a visual investigation into the relationship between natural and urban surfaces—specifically, between tree bark and the morphological evolution of the city of Rome. Both change slowly due to external factors: time, pressure, and environment. By comparing the texture of bark with satellite images of Rome’s expanding commercial areas, the work highlights the invisible cost of comfort and consumerism. The use of cyanotype reinforces the connection between light, memory, and transformation, evoking what has been traded in the process.

Tiratura
Tiratura is a hub and cultural association founded in 2023, dedicated to the creation, publishing, and dissemination of visual narratives. It offers educational programs focused on collaborative creative processes, a sustainable book production lab using Riso printing, a research library with over 2,000 photographic publications, public events on visual storytelling, and a studio for editing and book design. Its editorial initiatives focus on socially relevant themes, developing both individual and collective projects in collaboration with local communities, activists, and citizens, adapting methods of collaboration, funding, and distribution for each project. All publications are produced sustainably and independently, printed with Risograph on responsibly sourced paper and bound in-house.

TIRTHA MOON – Essential Oils

Tortilla del Mar
“Corn in Celebration! Rituals for Agricultural Decolonization” is an agri-food research project in the form of a diary, presented through a fanzine and an audiovisual journal documenting what took place during the Sapori di Futuro residency within the Station for Transformation project at La Foresta (Rovereto). The project explores the oldest and most indigenous corn varieties in Trentino, searching for ancestral seed-related practices. Through interviews and audiovisual recordings, it gathers stories beginning with the question: Which rituals related to corn cultivation, in both Trentino and Mexico, can be recovered and transformed to “heal” and decolonize the sowing and consumption of maize?

Annalisa Volcan
Volcan creates self-published zines, prints, and filters that address various topics such as climate change and the relationship between weeds and the urban landscape. Her prints include monoprints and risographs, while the zines are screen printed. The filters are made using inks created by the artist herself, using tea and campeche, a wood from Mexico that produces a violet dye. Annalisa makes books, zines, presses flowers, and takes photographs, among other things.

Vespiide
Vespiide is a project by Francesca De Caro. Her work is rooted in the belief that the most authentic vision is the one that escapes the eye—found in the oblique logic of dreams and in suspended words, like ink pollen. Through printmaking, she asserts that every form has a soul, that mistakes can open new pathways, and that imprecision is an invitation to look more closely. The images are gathered like seeds, scanned, layered, and ultimately disobeyed—set free to contaminate and lose themselves. Paper becomes the space where reality doesn’t lie but invents, generating not beauty, but resonance: an echo that continues to vibrate even after the voice has gone silent.