The Fountains of Za'atari is the articulated project that artist Margherita Moscardini has been developing since 2015 from her study of refugee camps as urban realities meant to last. The Za'atari camp was established in 2012 in a semi-desert area north of Jordan to accommodate Syrians fleeing the war and is still recognized, by extension,

as Jordan's fourth largest city. Moscardini's project is set up as a device to generate a virtuous system of selling sculptures that reproduce Za'atari's fountain courtyard models on a 1:1 scale, which are to benefit from a special jurisdiction with elements of extra-territoriality. These sculptures may be acquired by city administrations or institutions and presented in European public spaces. The project The Fountains of Za'atari includes a permanently installed sculpture in the Alcide Cervi Park in Reggio Emilia (from April 14, 2019), a temporary exhibition at the Collezione Maramotti (April 14-July 28, 2019), the present publication in English, and the corresponding Italian-language edition. The book contains essays by Margherita Moscardini, Myriam Ababsa, Leonardo Caffo, Donatella Di Cesare, Kilian Kleinschmidt, Massimo Sterpi, and Luigia Bersani.