04 Parklife 3
2025
Annual publication
Soft cover
20,5 x 28cm
n.168 pages
Color
Edition of n.400 copies
ISBN 979-12-210-8992-9
20,5 x 28cm
n.168 pages
Color
Edition of n.400 copies
ISBN 979-12-210-8992-9
A new nowhere
Third issue of Parklife begins with a shift of perspective—a turning outward. Not toward a landscape of memory or idealized escape, but toward the landscape as a question. A surface to be examined, unraveled, and reassembled.
Third issue of Parklife begins with a shift of perspective—a turning outward. Not toward a landscape of memory or idealized escape, but toward the landscape as a question. A surface to be examined, unraveled, and reassembled.
What does it mean to look outside—not just to see what is, but to imagine what might be formed from its fragments?
A new nowhere unfolds in the space between perception and projection, where what we know begins to blur into what we imagine. This “nowhere” is not defined by absence, but by possibility: a terrain still forming, shaped by the quiet gestures of observing, questioning, and redrawing the edges of the visible.
It becomes an act of definition—tentative, fragmentary, and open-ended. A constellation of images and intuitions orbiting around something still unnamed.
Here, the landscape is not framed to be admired, but to be experienced, inhabited and continually reimagined.
A new nowhere imagines a world where the boundaries between nature, architecture, labor, and daily life dissolve into a single, evolving fabric. A world where the external is not separate, but deeply implicated in how we live and act.
The future, then, is not a fixed point ahead, but a soft and continuous unfolding of the present—a movement shaped by how we choose to look and react.
The contributions in this issue do not seek to explain or define, but resonate like echoes of something that is still forming, just beyond our reach.
Each author traces a possible passage through the unknown—a fleeting geography shaped by visions still shifting, still unsettled.
What takes form is not a fixed image, but a moving landscape, one that invites interpretation as much as it resists it. In this space, to look is already to begin building—to construct meaning through perception, to assemble a place from what is not yet fully there.
Creative Direction & Editing
Paola Ristoldo, Alessandro Furchino Capria
Art Direction & Design
Michela Zoppi
Contributors
Marton Perlaki
Stefano Graziani
Tobia Faverio
Paola Ristoldo
Takashi Homma
Monika Mogi
Bryony Quinn
Takahiro Ito
Takeshi Hayatsu
Federico Campagna
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck
Lyson Marchessault
Maddy Weavers
Georgia Hablutzel
José Pedro Cortes
Mai Nakama
Inge Meijer
Alessandro Furchino Capria
Madison Vautour
03 Parklife 2
2024
Annual publication
Soft cover
20,5 x 28cm
n.186 pages
Color
Designed by Michela Zoppi
Edition of n.400 copies
Galerie art gloss 115 g/m2
Galerie art matt 115 g/m2
Typography
Clarendon Graphic, François Rappo
ISBN 979-12-210-5971-7
20,5 x 28cm
n.186 pages
Color
Designed by Michela Zoppi
Edition of n.400 copies
Galerie art gloss 115 g/m2
Galerie art matt 115 g/m2
Typography
Clarendon Graphic, François Rappo
ISBN 979-12-210-5971-7
A pause requires agility
If we perceive the pause as an interruption of a flow, is this moment experienced with greater awareness about the present? The second issue of Parklife is dedicated to the concept of rest, highlighting how we experience surrounding space while taking a break and, published once a year, is in continuity with the first, delving into the concept of living in outer space.
Offering personal interpretations by 16 authors, the publication not only explores the nature of interruption itself, but the different ways of awareness that arise during these moments. Starting from the idea that a pause requires agility, the publication provides a new key about the theme, exploring several facets and understandings related to pause, whether human or animal, temporary or everlasting.
If we perceive the pause as an interruption of a flow, is this moment experienced with greater awareness about the present? The second issue of Parklife is dedicated to the concept of rest, highlighting how we experience surrounding space while taking a break and, published once a year, is in continuity with the first, delving into the concept of living in outer space.
Offering personal interpretations by 16 authors, the publication not only explores the nature of interruption itself, but the different ways of awareness that arise during these moments. Starting from the idea that a pause requires agility, the publication provides a new key about the theme, exploring several facets and understandings related to pause, whether human or animal, temporary or everlasting.
Contributors
Fiona Banner
Giacomo Colombo
Beverly Corpuz
Jack Day
Johnny Dufort
Max Farago
Alessandro Furchino Capria
Federico Gioco
Pavel Golik
Shota Kono
Marton Perlaki
Paola Ristoldo
Giuliana Rosso
Shahram Saadat
Daisuke Takiguchi
Chardchakaj Waikawee
Fiona Banner
Giacomo Colombo
Beverly Corpuz
Jack Day
Johnny Dufort
Max Farago
Alessandro Furchino Capria
Federico Gioco
Pavel Golik
Shota Kono
Marton Perlaki
Paola Ristoldo
Giuliana Rosso
Shahram Saadat
Daisuke Takiguchi
Chardchakaj Waikawee
02 Parklife 1
2023
Annual publication
Soft cover
20,5 x 28cm
n.134 pages
Color
Designed by Michela Zoppi
Edition of n.500 copies
Galerie art gloss 115 g/m2
Galerie art matt 115 g/m2
Typography
Clarendon Graphic, François Rappo
ISBN 979-12-210-2886-7
20,5 x 28cm
n.134 pages
Color
Designed by Michela Zoppi
Edition of n.500 copies
Galerie art gloss 115 g/m2
Galerie art matt 115 g/m2
Typography
Clarendon Graphic, François Rappo
ISBN 979-12-210-2886-7
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Parklife is an independent publication edited by Continente Editions about outdoor space, curated by Paola Ristoldo and Alessandro Furchino Capria. The magazine, launched in April 2023 in London and with annual release, addresses stories of ordinary and uncommon places by developing visual and literary narratives. Driven by a primordial need to create, occupy and control a territory, human being becomes inhabitant of a place defined and circumscribed by and for himself. Why does humanity feel the need to design these spaces? How are they experienced?
Through an authorial approach and with unpublished projects, thirteen artists and a confrontation between an architect and a designer explore the concept of the park understood as a place of daily life. All these visions make it possible to conceive green space and its inhabitants as an essential and united part of the city context. Parklife is a refuge from the urban sprawl.
Through an authorial approach and with unpublished projects, thirteen artists and a confrontation between an architect and a designer explore the concept of the park understood as a place of daily life. All these visions make it possible to conceive green space and its inhabitants as an essential and united part of the city context. Parklife is a refuge from the urban sprawl.
Contributors
Eleonora Agostini
Valentin Bansac
C GROUP
Max Creasy
Jack Day
Tobia Faverio
Alessandro Furchino Capria
Federico Gioco
Takashi Homma
Vladimir Kaminetsky
Francesco Nazardo
Paola Ristoldo
Federico Torra
Jack Self
Mariana Siracusa
Morten Thuesen
Eleonora Agostini
Valentin Bansac
C GROUP
Max Creasy
Jack Day
Tobia Faverio
Alessandro Furchino Capria
Federico Gioco
Takashi Homma
Vladimir Kaminetsky
Francesco Nazardo
Paola Ristoldo
Federico Torra
Jack Self
Mariana Siracusa
Morten Thuesen
01 Plastic bags
2022
Hard cover
21,5 x 28cm
n.104 pages
Color
Designed by Nicolò Oriani and Continente Editions
Introduction text by Jack Self
First edition of n.200 copies
21,5 x 28cm
n.104 pages
Color
Designed by Nicolò Oriani and Continente Editions
Introduction text by Jack Self
First edition of n.200 copies
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If you were able to gather together all known life in the universe, the mass of this organic ball would be about 1,1 teratonnes – that’s 1.000.000.000.000.000 kilos. Against this, the mass of all human-made objects is slightly greater. More importantly, this so-called “anthropogenic mass” – the sum of all things in existence – is doubling every 20 years. Each week we produce a mass of objects per person equal to your own bodyweight.This might make you think that a lot of human things must be very heavy or very large.
Jack Self, 2022 (Extract from the introduction text). Full text here
Jack Self, 2022 (Extract from the introduction text). Full text here
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