Preamble
During July 2020, the LWCircus community, composed by artists, curators, architects, landscape architects, photographers and filmmakers, been invited to curate the section Resilience, Art and Landscape of Italian Pavilion, among the 17th Architecture Venice Biennial, to give its contribute among the debate on the “post Covid” architecture future’s discipline, by using an adaptive and symbiotic attitude, as possible methodology of contemporary practice, decided to transform in a crew and to embark in a travel among the Mediterranean sea, in between Corsica and Sardinia, a magical setting for epic journeys, places of trade and migrations of “humans and more than humans”. Using artistic approach in the specific mediterranean landscape, the LWC Community decided to test itself, in designing and realizing “non artifacts”, belonging from the story and naturalness of the place, with a symbiotic design attitude and using strictly materials collected in the island. Due to the prohibitive circumstances, for to the pandemic crisis that exploded during 2020, the LWCircus community decides to embark on a journey, to rediscover itself, choosing the Mediterranean area for undoubted logistical limitations, towards a possible journey further away, but above all for ancestral cultural reasons, given that the Mediterranean is the origin of our Western cultures. The interdisciplinary group felt the need to get lost in time and space, precisely to try to redefine and refine a design methodology, in step with the times, relocating itself within the state of the art and making useful contributions within the disciplinary debate. Therefore, the process of estrangement was dual: the first in a physical and geographical sense and the second in a spiritual sense, as a need to lose all references and, therefore, prejudices, linked to a deterministic vision of architectural practice, in order to try to investigate possibilities concrete redefinition of fundamentals, inherent the future of their discipline. Once landed on the small island, the creative community, transformed into a crew, collaborating with the local community, made up of anthropogenic and natural elements (the “humans and more than humans”), began to reflect on the civic sense of their own disciplines. and therefore to work for a process of re-appropriation of memory and the most intimate sense of the place, trying to contribute to the very current debate at the center of the main disciplines that deal with the design of places, questioning about solutions towards a future post pandemic, for present and possible local inhabitants.

Methodology and design process
During the methodological process, the crew, transformed into a tribe, listened, tuning in with the rest of the predominant natural elements, thus establishing a connection with the most intimate sense of the place. Approaching the island, near the landing beach, the tribe finds a perfect setting for experimentation: something like a perfect refuge, made up of an intricate association of individuals belonging to a Mediterranean scrub community, of exceptional ecological value, between which Myrtus communis, Juniperus phoenicea, Tamarix gallica, Pistaciaatiche-scus, Juncus acutus, Helycrisum italicum, Sedum. Thus, the creative community decides to free itself from the cultural prejudices due to the disciplinary heritage of origin and begins to support the vocation of the place. In the midst of the darkness of the tangle of vegetation, the association of centuries-old junipers, attacked by lichens, deserved help. Therefore, as a priority, the team intervenes by tidying up, to try to see the exact characteristics of the space inside that place, which immediately seemed a perfect refuge, in the dark forest. It was thus the place itself that guided the subsequent phases of the operational process, “suggesting” how to proceed, through a dialogic, adaptive and symbiotic process, between the creative community and the external elements, including light, wind, humidity, vegetation present, translating in a work of composition by subtraction, rather than by addition, as usually happens.
Only through a process of careful observation of the real intrinsic characteristics of the place, the creative tribe was able to grasp its suggestions, including some views open towards the zenith and the horizon, as well as the inspiration received from a juniper in particular, which lying in the middle of the ground it invited to a position of relaxation and contemplation for body and spirit, inspiring the creation of a chaise-longue.
So much so that the group begins to compose and, through pieces of woods arrived from the sea, recreates a sort of bed where you can enjoy the exceptional locus amoenus and contemplate the universe around, thanks to a series of circular openings, obtained from a skilful pruning to clean the secular junipers from lichens, proceeding to consolidate the entrance, through fallen branches and finally, the access, consolidating the threshold with elements of granite stones.

The experience, strongly desired by the LWCircus crew, to verify and test firsthand the will and the possibility of living together, both as a creative community within a limited space (the boat in which they lived), trying to manage the natural elements, with which to deal, which, as a community, part of a system of living beings that interacted with the rest of the elements of the place, the island and its locals, living and non-living organisms, constantly bringing everything back to the size of the project, was strongly influenced by the naturalness of the place. The place, in fact, had from beginning to end a deep and unique emotional meaning that placed the individuals of the creative community in connection with primordial sensations, providing them with comfort, security but also and above all, a sense of community.

Conclusions
The Creative community, adaptive and symbiotic, in continuous transformation between crew and tribe, has thus created a living refuge, trying to establish a truly dialogical process with the investigated places, supporting their most intimate vocation, inherent in naturalness, making choices, to guiding future feedbacks, thus giving natural elements opportunities to continue in the evolutionary process, creating a final result that will be visible over time. In this sense, the project is an unfinished and in continuous progress towards a subsequent state of temporary equilibrium, which offers the opportunity to the co-creators of the LWCircus to intervene in subsequent times, thus enhancing the evolutionary meaning of the project, capable of adapt and reconfigure, evolving in crisis or adverse conditions, typical of the ecological environment and of living organisms in general, testing the real possibility of an “intrinsically ecological” architecture.

During the realization process, often speaking of ethnobotany, the authors finally opted for what can be considered a “humanistic ecology”, favoring a systemic and inclusive design approach, contemplating an inclusion, both as regards the actors external to the investigated place, being from different and multiple disciplinary origins, as well as the various elements and unknowns present in the environment itself (humidity, winds, exposures, plant and animal organisms, organic and otherwise, micro and macro), where the human being must be considered part of the unicum (meaning by unicum the whole system of which we all belong, as living organisms), rather than the dominant actor. The modus operandi of the creative community thus suggests a plausible option, making its contribution towards a paradigm shift, within the design disciplines that deal with designing in places, be they natural, rural or urban, in search of a balance between human beings, the various elements and the rest of the system itself.
A possible design methodology that must be welcoming, adaptive and in symbiosis with the rest of the system’s characteristics, trying to restore the lost balance, acting with a radical route change, where it is necessary to rethink the way of acting, planning and living the planet.