Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Postcards from the Grand To(u)ret
When was the last time you drank from a green cast-iron drinking fountain with one hand on your horns and the other spooned under your nose? Yes, we are talking about the TORETs, the more than 800 bull-headed fountains that have been distributing public water for 150 years, and in [...]
An exploreading in Baroque Turin
It is in us that landscapes have landscapes. So if I imagine them I create them; if I create them they exist; if they exist I see them. What we see is not what we see, but what we are. (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet) ‘Symbols Unveiled’ is one [...]
The ‘Active Landscape’ at the centre
Revised from Jacques Carelman - ‘Saroka la géante’ (1965) Jacques Carelman's drawing well represents the spirit of APPA: to systematise and bring to light the continuous work carried out by thousands of people, every day, to maintain Beauty in our country. We are convinced that more and more inhabitants and [...]
Active Landscape: Café Elena
An entrepreneur's point of view on the potential of the atlas: speech by Fulvio Griffa, owner of the historic Caffè Elena.
AtlasFor and Contemprary Art Week 2019
Once again this year, the team made up of Artissima, Paratissima, The Others and FlashBack animates Turin's Art Week. Paratissima, with ‘Art in the City’, is showing works by emerging artists in 70 public venues and shops mainly around Via Po. ‘Artissima in the City’ extends the opportunities for meetings, [...]