11_Encounters_CoverBookIllustration_Marcello Licitra

Illustrations created for the publication “Encounters” of the Theatrum Mundi
research Centre, which examines the intersections of movement, architecture, and urbanism.

The book also explores how bodies navigatespace, how movement reflects cultural and environmental conditions, and how shared spaces become sites of negotiation. The illustrations translate these themes into visual compositions that suggest fluidity, interconnection, and spatial storytelling.

By focusing on movement as a way of knowing and experiencing place, this project engages with the idea of landscapes as living, shifting entities.
It considers how space is not static but shaped through the flows of people, histories, and unseen forces—how environments are continuously redefined through interaction, memory, and adaptation.