The Eleventh Bridge

After the demilitarization and the failed relaunch entrusted to the exclusive Yacht Club, supposed to be inaugurated by hosting the G8 headquarters, local authorities and the Region of Sardinia have been wondering about possible solutions for the redevelopment of the former Arsenale area in La Maddalena. Eterotopia was one of these initiatives organized and coordinated by an international group of young architects that, held in the form of a workshop in September 2018, tried to imagine scenarios and solutions in response to eight different themes, entrusted to as many working groups. This book contains the results of one of these teams who, under the authors' guidance, addressed the theme Insularity. Isolation and Reconnection by developing ten bridge projects for the La Maddalena archipelago. In the pages of the book, there is no trace of architectural solutions, but figurations of reconnection of the insular isolation staging questionable meetings between humanity and nature and that, in the authors' comments, offer opportunities for reflection on possible ways of trampling the world in the era of the catastrophe. The adopted method is based on fictional narrative and metaphorical artifices as productive devices of creative criticism and alternative tools capable of welcoming, into the world's project, a renewed aesthetic attitude contrasting or validating science and experts' indisputable truths.