To inhabit and uninhabit. A night on the threshold between places and their emptiness.

In Marzocca di Senigallia, on July 18th, Maritime Demesne.Km-278 returns: twelve hours non-stop of art, architecture, and thought. The fifteenth edition explores the forms of contemporary living, its opposites and paradoxes, between global dialogues, installations, and performances.

Inhabiting/Uninhabiting: the theme of an era

Demanio Marittimo.Km-278 turns fifteen and returns, as always, to the beach of Marzocca di Senigallia for a 12-hour marathon, from 6 pm to 6 am.
Leading the new edition - curated by Cristiana Colli and Pippo Ciorra - is the theme INHABITING/UNINHABITING, a profound reflection on what it means today to live in places, build spaces, let them go. Amid social metamorphoses, urban mutations, and new lifestyles, the concept of inhabiting confronts its negation, emptiness, and absence, in an era marked by temporary, shared, and mobile forms.

Slovenian Architecture, Biennale, and Award-Winning Pavilions

The 2025 international program focuses on Slovenia, featuring the designers of KM-0.07 - winners of the competition for public space in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana - and lectures by the studios Bevk & Peroviç and Decleva Gregorič.
Directly from the Venice Architecture Biennale, the award-winning protagonists arrive in Marzocca: the Bahrain Pavilion (Golden Lion), Diller Scofidio + Renfro (best project in the main exhibition), the Holy See Pavilion, and those of Austria and Poland, featuring names like Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Maio Architects, and Michael Obrist.

Museums, cities, space: how (not) to inhabit

Among the architecture projects and installations, museum storages are addressed as inhabited and uninhabited places, starting from the V&A Storehouse. Authoritative voices from MAXXI, Fondazione Prada, ArkDes Stockholm and other major museums intervene. The focus also shifts to the future: Inhabiting the Sky, in collaboration with ESA, explores life in space with Luca Parmitano, Annalisa Dominoni, Paolo Ferri, and Paolo Conte. On the ground, the spotlight moves to stadiums – hybrid urban objects – and art galleries, like Franco Noero's, which are transformed into public and multidisciplinary laboratories.

Performance, cinema, art: the festival in the night

Performances take center stage: the project SITUS INVERSUS by Fumi della Fornace, led by Giorgiomaria Cornelio and Giulia Pigliapoco, intertwines poetry, art, and theater. The black box active all night hosts screenings of video art and content curated by entities such as MUSE Factory of Projects, MAXXI, LINA, and the MAO of Turin. Among the exceptional guests is the artist Anri Sala, who engages in a dialogue with Sislej Xhafa and Lorenzo Benedetti, and the live-drawn performance by November Wong, one of the emerging voices in the international art scene.

The tale of a territory that renews itself

Demanio opens with a tribute to Mario Giacomelli, on the centenary of his birth in Senigallia: a collective conversation between Katiuscia Biondi Giacomelli, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, and Massimo Raffaeli. As every year, even food tells stories: from the cocktail for the 15th anniversary of Spaccio Alimenti&Affini to the packed lunch from Antico Forno Olivetti, to the gourmet sandwiches from Pandefrà.
The festival concludes with the presentation of the new issue of the magazine Mappe, published by Gagliardini, which promotes the event along with a wide network of institutions, under the patronage of the Marche Region, MAXXI, MAO, professional orders, and ESA.