Maria Eugenia Frizzele & Lemonot

01/07 — 30/11/2025

Fellowship

Lemonot is a duo led by Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri, architects and educators working between London and Italy. Their practice operates at the intersection of space, performance, and relational practices, activating temporary infrastructures to construct collective imaginaries and convivial devices that explore spontaneous forms of urban theatricality.
For their research project at Scuola Piccola Zattere, Lemonot collaborates with Maria Eugenia Frizzele, an independent researcher in the field of cultural policy, with a focus on horizontal approaches to urban regeneration and creative experimentation in policymaking and social innovation.

During the fellowship, the group will develop a site-specific project in a disused area of Venice’s historic center, aiming to spark a long-term regeneration process and return the site to the local community. Exploring themes of cohabitation, counter-narrative, and collective knowledge production, the project will take shape as a temporary observatory for testing and envisioning possible futures—interweaving radical pedagogy, performativity, and design thinking. Through thematic workshops, ephemeral archives, discussion forums, sensitive cartographies, and convivial acts, the initiative seeks to explore marginalized forms of knowledge and urban self-organization, while critically questioning participatory methodologies. Their approach will be process-based and multi-layered, transforming the working space into a living archive that reflects on architecture as both a discursive practice and an inhabited body.

Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri (Lemonot) are architects, educators, and founders of Lemonot—a duo merging spatial and relational practices, architecture, and performance art. They graduated together from the Architectural Association (AA) in London and currently move between the UK and Italy.
Academic work is a key part of Lemonot’s identity. Both have taught as Adjunct Professors at INDA (International Program in Design and Architecture) in Bangkok and served as Programme Heads of the AA Visiting School El Alto (Bolivia). Lorenzo also taught from 2020 to 2023 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, while Sabrina is currently a Studio Master in the Foundation Course at the AA in London. Since 2022, they co-lead the Architectural Design Studio 7 at the Royal College of Art, London, exploring conviviality as a form of gentle resistance and spatial activism.
Their work has been exhibited and awarded internationally, with collaborations including Arquine, DPR Barcelona, LINA, S AM Basel, and Architecture at the Edge. They have presented projects at institutions and festivals such as YTAA, RIBA, ATT19, and the Design Weeks in Vienna, Bangkok, and Milan, as well as Mextropoli (Mexico City), FAR – Festival dell’Architettura di Roma, and the Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival.
In 2023, they were selected to represent Italy at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, and in 2024, Sabrina was named the Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome. Together, they are currently developing major new spatial and artistic projects as Associate Artists at BASE Milano.
 

Maria Eugenia Frizzele has contributed to curatorial and public programmes at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome and TBA21–Academy in Venice. She has conducted research for Sotheby’s Rome and was a visiting researcher at the Anselm Kiefer Archive in Paris, with a project supported by La Sapienza University of Rome. Between 2022 and 2024, she was awarded an excellence scholarship from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an advanced specialisation in cultural and urban policies at the École des Politiques Publiques, Sciences Po Paris. In 2024, she signed a research agreement with Italy’s State Property Agency (Agenzia del Demanio) for the study and temporary regeneration of a historic site in the heart of Venice.