Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Landscape: the cure
Urgent need for a female point of view in caring for the ‘suspended’ landscape of the suburbs The Church needs women in decision-making, says Francis. Listening to interviews with some of the hundreds of superior mothers that the Pope has called together, the tone is: we told him off and [...]
Landscape with houses
An exhibition on recent public housing: a first attempt by the Ministry to explore the landscape of the suburbs, for now still focused on buildings and spaces rather than on the society inhabiting a ‘new world’. First output of the new ‘Urban Peripheries’ sector of the MIBACT An exhibition in [...]
To inhabit is to be inhabited
A contemporary Ulysses shows the absurdity of a sea where the refugee is welcomed and rejected at the same time, where a self-insecure society is incapable of continuing a millenary tradition of hospitality, exchange and integration. Ulysses at the CIE Ulysses, prey to the Dantesque storm that has thrown him [...]
Landscapes for re-inhabiting the mountains
Abandonment, one of the great themes removed for decades from the table of discussions on land and environmental governance, finally finds someone who discusses it, and puts it at the centre of projects. The mountain is the privileged place to rethink a postrural way of living, which is increasingly urgent [...]
Connecting Smart Landscapes: a proposal for new territorial service networks
It is proposed to territories (from ‘inland areas’ to metropolitan cities) to give space to a strategy of public interest: networking and organising widespread initiatives concerning innovative and experimental ways to improve the quality of life in transport and services for the new needs of the territory. The opportunity is [...]