LaLiMed Nador Lagoon in Transition workshop brings together architecture, urbanism, and landscape as complementary perspectives through which to explore the complex coastal territory of the Nador Lagoon, Morocco. Conceived primarily as an educational experience for first-year students of the Master’s Degree in Architecture, the workshop aims to refine their ability to observe, interpret, and represent complex environments characterized by the interplay of urban, ecological, and social dynamics.

The workshop is designed as an exploratory activity closely tied to field experience. Direct observation, site visits, and territorial walk-throughs will serve as the starting point for a critical reinterpretation of its spatial forms, ongoing projects, and transformation processes. Rather than immediately jumping to design solutions, students will be asked to document, redraw, and reinterpret the lagoon landscape, identifying relationships, tensions, and emerging conditions capable of suggesting new conceptualizations for its future.
The programme will alternate theoretical lectures, field activities, and collaborative studio work. 
The first day will be dedicated to introducing the geographical, environmental, urban, and socio-economic context of Nador and its lagoon. 
The second and third days will focus on intensive site visits and field investigations across a series of selected areas along the lagoon territory. 
In the final days, students will work collectively to organize, compare, and reinterpret the materials gathered in the field, translating their observations into maps, drawings, diagrams, and conceptual scenarios.
The workshop will conclude with a public presentation and a final discussion of the outcomes with professors, guest experts, and representatives of local institutions, providing an opportunity to share different readings of the Nador Lagoon and reflect on its ongoing transformations and potential futures.

Selected students participating in the workshop will receive a mobility grant of 600 euros as a partial contribution towards their expenses. This financial support is subject to full attendance of the educational activities and the successful acquisition of the expected 2 CFU.

The Erasmus+ LaLiMed workshop brought together students from the Master’s Degree in Architecture at Università Iuav di Venezia and international partner Architectural schools (Rabat, Oujda, Bruxelles and Marseille), under the guidance of Luca Velo and Andrea Iorio.

Through fieldwork, students explored the lagoon’s urban neighbourhoods, agricultural landscapes and coastal spaces, engaging with the people who inhabit, cross and wait within them.

Photography, visual documentation, sketches and narratives became tools for observing and reinterpreting this extraordinary territory.

Their work revealed unexpected relationships between everyday life, spatial transformations and the lagoon’s ecological conditions.

The resulting maps, drawings and stories offered fresh ways of understanding these places and imagining their possible futures.

The workshop provided a powerful opportunity to connect direct experience, shared knowledge and imaginative thinking about the future of the Nador Lagoon.