Albania 1e1000 2008Exploration in southern Albania and Torino World Design Capital An Italian-Albanian magazine made for Torino Geodesign 2008. From Abitare 483, June 2008 “Albania1e1000” is issue 0 of a magazine, the arrival point of a process of relationship and listening carried out by the ilmotorediricerca group with the association Mergimtari of Turin. It takes the form of a geographical map and tells, in two languages, the identities of some Albanians living in Turin and their wish to create a magazine conceived as a space of mediation and as a possibility of intercultural dialogue. In appearance it is a folding map which, once unfolded, allows whoever receives it to detach the whole outline of Albania, so as to see it physically as a shape or as an absence, that is, as a window onto the rest of the map. The reasoning starts from the many commonplaces about Albania and Albanians, commonplaces that hide the fact that of this neighbouring country neither the history, nor the geography, nor the culture is known. Alongside and in support of this project, in this issue 0, there are contributions by some Albanian and Italian intellectuals, nodes of the network built between the two countries. In collaboration with the Mergimtari association. Albania 1e1000 is: Riccardo Albani, Imelda Ali, Nico Angiuli, Saimir Baci, Ilir Butka, Roberto dell’Orco, Pia Livia Di Tardo, Matteo Fraterno, Marco Gigliotti, Joana Gjinaj, Irene Guida, Dafina Ikonomi, Ergys Kastrati, Aurora Kokici, Michele Loiacono, Antonella Marino, Edit Mihali, Lirien Mihali, Tome Muslia, Aldi Pupuleku, Luigi Quaranta, Elona Sako, Ilir Shaholli, Albana Temali, Piero Vereni, Valentina Vetturi. With the participation of: Artegiovani, Ass. Barriera, Besa editore, Davide Barletti, Pandi Belo, Aksinja Gioia, Raffaele Gorgoni, Eilis Cranitch, Piro Misha, Heldi Pema, Kastriot Ramollari, Father Tomas Samaraj, Filomena Vicchio. Images: Abitare, Roberto dell’Orco.