Lia Forcioli-Conti
Anthropologist researcher and cheffe Lia Forcioli Conti, trained at Ferrandi and affiliated with EHESS, carried out an extended research residency at Providenza focused on the territory, between anthropology and visual arts, dedicated to botanical knowledge, foraging practices, and forms of transmission in Corsica.
Between winter and spring 2025, she explored the Nebbiu and Balagne regions, meeting with foragers, farmers, botanists, and researchers — notably Francesca Desideri, Christophe Luzzi (CNRS), Muriel Pucheu (INRAE), Laetitia Hugot (Corsican National Botanical Conservatory), as well as many residents of the surrounding villages. These exchanges, conducted in the field around plants, practices, and stories, fed into a sensitive inquiry into the living memory of the territory.
Distinct from her summer culinary residency at A Cucina, this immersion led to the publication of a booklet titled Inerbita (excerpt below, full document downloadable here), bringing together texts, photographs, and field fragments around the connections between ecology, memory, and local transmission.
