Oasi in Città
THE 2 UMBRIAN WWF OASES – LA MALCONTENTA E IL LUPO AND ALVIANO – speak through art and green building
URBAN NATURE 2025 OASI IN CITTÀ – TODI – 5 OCTOBER 2025 THE 2 UMBRIAN WWF OASES – LA MALCONTENTA E IL LUPO AND ALVIANO – speak through art and green building
The national WWF event will take place on 5 October 2025, and on this occasion in Todi the focus will be on nature in urbanised settings, bringing nature into the city through video works.
A video art installation created inside the WWF Oasis La Malcontenta e il Lupo and the Alviano Oasis will be presented in Todi.
The artists Auro and Celso Ceccobelli will show, in the municipal spaces, video art inspired by nature and made inside the two Umbrian WWF Oases, as well as in other natural settings of great value.
Art made of images and sound will tell the story of the natural environment of the Oases, one of those highly biodiverse settings that Umbria offers us.
Art and nature come together to speak about the environment in a city like Todi, famous for being rich in national and international artists and surrounded by a unique natural heritage.
There will also be a conference on green building and on the integration of urban and natural environments.
The topics will include sustainable building, energy self-sufficiency, and innovative construction techniques such as those using lime and hemp, as well as earth and straw.
Speakers:
Eng. Luca Sonno, energy efficiency expert Well-being in building
Eng. Veronica Angelozzi, head of the Calcecanapa line at La Banca della Calce, Bologna Living with nature: lime and hemp for sustainable building
Sanni Mezzasoma, manager of Terra e Paglia Building sustainably
The meeting is chaired by Rita Boini, journalist
The work by AURO & CELSO CECCOBELLI, “NATURA ILLUMINATA”, will be on show all day from 09:30 to 19:30 at the Sala ex Monte dei Paschi di Siena in Piazza del Popolo.
The conference on SUSTAINABLE BUILDING will be held in the Sala Vetrata in Piazza del Popolo, Todi, from 11:00 to 13:00.
The initiative is under the patronage of the Municipality of Todi and the Tiber River Park.
For information: info@lamalcontentaeillupo.com
WHO IT IS FOR
The event is open to everyone.
Both events are free of charge and open to the public.
HIGHLIGHTS
- When: 5 October 2025, from 09:00 to 19:30.
- Where: Todi, Sala ex Monte dei Paschi di Siena and Sala Vetrata, Piazza del Popolo.
- Free event.
Oasi La Malcontenta e il Lupo
The WWF Oasis La Malcontenta e il Lupo is located in Umbria, in the municipality of Todi (PG), near the Tiber River Park, and is mainly dedicated to scientific research and to the conservation of species and genetic diversity.
The Oasis is a protected area that includes several habitats of natural value, with very varied environments rich in biodiversity: typical wetland environments, woods left to evolve naturally, climate inversion phenomena, ecosystems hosting flora and fauna of great interest, including an abundant presence of wild orchids.
Lake Alviano Oasis
The WWF Oasis of Lake Alviano includes all the typical freshwater wetland environments: marsh, pond, swamp, hygrophilous woodland. With its 900 hectares it is one of the most important wetlands in central Italy. The Oasis lies within a Special Area of Conservation (IT5220011) in the municipalities of Guardea, Alviano, Montecchio and Civitella d’Agliano (TR). It is also a Special Protection Area (SPA IT5220024).
Tiber River Park
The Tiber River Park covers about 7,925 hectares in the municipalities of Monte Castello di Vibio, Todi, Baschi, Orvieto, Montecchio, Guardea and Alviano. Besides the river course and the artificial lakes of Corbara and Alviano, it includes the hill of Todi, the Pasquarella Valley, the hillside between Titignano and Prodo, and part of the one around Civitella del Lago. The lowest altitude is 68 metres at Lake Alviano, the highest 548 metres on the hills of Prodo. (from "Ecomanuale Parco regionale del Fiume Tevere")
Photo by Alfredo Martorelli, 2023, Venice.
AURO & CELSO CECCOBELLI CelsAuri
The twin brothers Auro and Celso Ceccobelli (Rome, 12 May 1986) work in contemporary art, creating performative sculptures, art videos and Raku ceramics. They are the sons of the symbolist painter-sculptor Bruno Ceccobelli (1952), grandsons of the informal sculptor Toni Fabris (1915-1989) and great-grandsons of the porcelain maker Luigi Fabris (1883-1952).
They live in Todi, work together, and have been active in the art world since 2001, experimenting with different materials and sculptural techniques and, at the same time, with video art through the collection “doCumentArti”, which produces a poetic documentation paying tribute to the artist portrayed: a set of about 160 videos that are neither true documentaries nor true art videos but something in between, respecting the poetic form of the artist filmed while offering an interpretive version that does not betray the artist’s spirit but rather qualifies it and reveals and enhances its distinctive features.
Since 2016 the works of the CelsAuri have been performative, post-apocalyptic sculptures, in the spirit of “Garage Art”, made from discarded objects of our consumer society, with inserts of plant structures and voices of nature emitted by liquid music; contemporary archaeologies poetically transformed until they become bachelor machines that try to find a balance between advanced Technology (typical of the capitalist world), Nature and Man.
“Our paintings are called Pneumagraphies: coloured strokes made with motor-vehicle tyres used as brushes, then framed in car windows. Our aim is the same: to express artistically the relationship between Man, Mechatronics and Nature and to underline the urgency of finding points of balance!”
Solo exhibitions: Ipogeo dei Volumni and Necropoli del Palazzone, Ponte San Giovanni (PG), (2024), Galleri Umbria, Hostelbrovej, Denmark (2023); Blue Gallery, Venice (2023); Galleria Alice Schanzer, Sutri (2023); Niccoli Gallery, Tallinn – Estonia (2022); Permanent installation, Villa Pisani Bonetti, Lonigo (2022); Galleria Internazionale Sala 1, Rome, (2021); &Art Gallery, Vicenza (2021); Tribute to Beverly Pepper, Todi (2020); Fondazione Aldega, Amelia (2019); Festival di Todi (2018); CIAC Store - Book Shop Museo CIAC, Foligno (2016); Museo Nazionale Ravenna (2016); Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (2015); Galleria per Mari e Monti, Civitanova Marche (2014); Museo Bilotti, Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome (2014); Galleria Studio d’Arte Fedele, Monopoli (2010); Fondazione VOLUME!, Rome (2010/2009).
Group exhibitions: AMAB, Assisi (2025); La Nuvola, Rome (2024); KunsthausRot, Köniz (Switzerland), (2024); Palazzo del Vignola, Todi (2024); Museo Dinamico del Laterizio e delle Terracotte, Marsciano (2023); Galleria Collage Store, Narni (2023); ArTodi, Palazzo del Vignola , Todi (2022); Architecture Biennale, Venice (2021), Museo Camusac, Cassino (2020); Tian Tai, Qingdao, China (2020); Accademia Nazionale di San Luca - #DaiUnSegno, Rome (2020); Linee d’Umbria, Rocca di Umbertide (2020); Asmalimescit Art Gallery Beyoglu, Istanbul (2019); Spazio Thetis, Venice (2019); Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome (2018); Palazzo Collacchioni, Capalbio (2017); Scriptorium Abbazia di San Galgano, Siena (2017); Galleria Seno, Milan (2016); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Saint-Étienne Métropole - France (2015-2016); Fondazione VOLUME!, Rome (2013); Galleria Bibo’s Place, Todi (2013); Galleria Limen 895, Rome (2010).
Eng. Luca Sonno
Luca Sonno is an engineer and a convinced supporter of energy efficiency, to the point of making it, successfully, a profession but also, and above all, an ethical principle.
He was born and lives in Bastia Umbra, a town that, as he explains, has been among the most technological in Umbria and in Italy since the early 1900s. In this climate he grew up curious about technology and graduated in Computer Engineering. But his path changed when he came across prefabricated wooden houses, a perfect example of almost total energy efficiency. Courses, studies with bodies such as ENEA, and a great passion made him a qualified expert in this field.
(By Rita Boini)
Eng. Veronica Angelozzi, La Banca della Calce
La Banca della Calce was founded in Bologna in 2009 and works in green building, first as a technical-scientific consultancy for companies that use lime and its derivatives – assisting architects and designers both at the design stage and on site – and later also marketing innovative, eco-sustainable building products, to offer the Italian architecture and restoration market products based on certified lime. Among the four product lines developed by the company, Calcecanapa is the one dedicated to insulating products: the union of lime and hemp creates a biocomposite that combines thermal and acoustic insulation, breathability and sustainability.
Veronica Angelozzi is a Building Engineer-Architect specialised in green building, natural materials and energy retrofitting. She currently works at "La Banca della Calce", where she deals with technical activities, research and development, as well as training.
Her education includes a Master’s degree in Building Engineering-Architecture from the University of Bologna, with a thesis focused on a prefabricated lime and hemp building system, accompanied by a life cycle assessment (LCA).
Her professional experience is mainly in the role she has held at La Banca della Calce Srl since January 2021, where she carries out design and green-building consultancy – especially on lime and hemp insulation – and takes part in teaching in training courses. Previously, she did internships at the same company between 2019 and 2020, devoting herself to research, technical support and site visits related to the writing of her degree thesis.
Her technical skills include architectural design, green building, energy certification, LCA analysis and restoration.
Sanni Mezzasoma, Terra e Paglia
"At the end of the last century I trained as an educator with Francesco Tonucci and soon afterwards I built the Panta Rei centre, under the guidance of Rainer Winter, and ran it until 2013. In 2013 Sara, Andrea and I decided to set up the building company Terra e Paglia, with which we still build houses made of natural materials wherever we are called. When needed we support self-builders who, for various reasons, think they can build parts of their own home themselves. Together with Sara we continue to offer training and outreach activities to help spread an unconventional way of building that raises the level of sustainability of the way we live."
Under the patronage of
Municipality of Todi, Tiber River Park, La Consolazione ETAB
Where
Todi, Piazza del Popolo
HOW TO GET THERE From the North (e.g. Florence, Bologna): take the A1 motorway, exit at Valdichiana, follow the signs towards Perugia on the E45 (SS675) and exit at Todi. From there, follow the signs for the historic centre and the parking areas.
From the South (e.g. Rome): take the A1 motorway, exit at Orte, then follow the SS204 and the E45 towards Perugia. Exit at Todi and follow the signs for the centre.
Parking: The historic centre of Todi is largely a ZTL (Limited Traffic Zone). You will have to park outside the walls. The most convenient car parks are:
Parcheggio dell’Ascensore, in the Porta Orvietana area (paid, very large);
Parcheggio della Consolazione (free). From here you can reach the square on foot (about 15 minutes) or use the shuttle service.