Roberto Dell’Orco
Landscape Artist & Architect, Gardener
Co-Founder of SPORA
Paris, France
Roberto Dell'Orco is an Italian landscape artist and architect based in Paris.
His work explores the intersections of consciousness, culture, and ecology, treating landscapes as co-evolutionary systems where humans, animals, plants, and cultural forms interact and transform one another. He has collaborated on collective landscape projects with Scuola del Terzo Luogo in Italy and was previously active with IlMotoreDiRicerca, an Italian collective focused on installation, video, and performance.
He has extensive teaching experience in schools of landscape, design, and architecture, as well as with children of all ages, fostering creative, participatory, and ecological approaches to space.
He is also a co-founder of SPORA, an experimental and transdisciplinary project that uses fungi as both a creative medium and a research methodology, probing the entangled relationships between life, matter, and imagination.
Field of research | Area of activity
Landscape, ecology, mycology, photography, performance
Keywords related to mycelial space
Funga, mycelium, photography, performance, ecological art, collective practices, soil, pedagogy, urban ecology, living systems, situated knowledge, mycology
Selected publications
A.A.V.V. (2001). Sarajevo 2001 Chaos & Communication. Sarajevo: CPU.
Dell’Orco, R. (2018). Dialogues: Roberto Dell’Orco / Yona Friedman. In Archphoto 2.0, 06, 94–103. Plug_in.
Dell’Orco, R. A. (2004). Su Aldo Rossi: Entretien avec D. Liebeskind. D’Architettura, 23, 171–173
Gaignard, P. (2021). Hyperempirique.
Horvitz, D. (2018). Eridanus.
Zigoury, M. (2017). Venus of the Rags / In Transit / 2014 Eleusis.
Ndiritu, G. (2025). Eating Together. In Being Together: A Manual for Living (pp. [page range]). Page Not Found.
Selected exhibtions
2024 ROTTING HEGEL | Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany.
2021 SKEUMA LEKBA | Centre d’art l’Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay.
2021 FLEXISTOCK. Confinement annulé / Exposition maintenue | Paris.
2020 Chardon Roulante, Vitesse Ardente | Le Wonder, Parigi, Francia.
2019 Happy Birthday Shame | Archivio di Stato, Matera.
2019 Portes Ouvertes, Portes Closes | Le Wonder, Parigi.
2013 Il sogno di Francesco Cirio | Kaninchen-Haus, Torino.
2012 BeReLigIoN. Mapping the tolerance | Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlino.
2010 La persistenza del significante | Biennale di Atene.
2010 AMARELARTE | Installation, Bari, Italie.
2009 Oda, non riesco ad essere infelice | Theatre National de Tirana, Albania
2001 X BIENNALE DES JEUNES CRÉATEURS DE L'EUROPE ET DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE | Sarajevo, Bosnie.