Public Lecture by Renato Rizzi — Tbilisi — Risingland, moderated by Nata Tatunashvili

Rizzi’s talk demonstrated that architecture calls on us to perceive not only what stands in front of us, but also to look beyond the visible and connect to its hidden and distant dimensions. It challenges us to engage with the tangible, material world, as well as with the immaterial that lies beyond our perception. Within this framework, Rizzi elaborated on the exhibition's title, Tbilisi — Risingland, which conveys the project’s ambition to make visible what would otherwise remain unreadable. In this case, it is the landscape of Tbilisi itself, its geological and historical depth, that the project seeks to bring to the surface through the three-dimensional handmade models. The lecture also addressed the exhibition's core theme — the relationship between literature and architecture and portrayed how the history of one family across multiple generations in L’Ottava Vita (per Brilka), a book by Nino Haratischvili, reflects the layered formation of Tbilisi’s landscape.