Name of the project: Wandering oven; We knead desirable futures
Name of the project in local language: Forno Vagabondo; Impastiamo futuri desiderabili
Location: Villa Lagarina, Italy
Time period: Since 2020
Key words: Culture, Education, Sustainability, Industry
Level of participation: Partnership
Forno Vagabondo is an itinerant social oven that travels through Alta Vallagarina on an electric cargo bike. At each stop in a public space located in a small village of Vallagarina, the oven becomes a meeting and experimentation point for the local community. Its challenge is to build an innovative and familiar space to guide people towards sustainable living and to connect stakeholders of the region through a simple and familiar practice such as making bread together. For the space analysis, we focused on one spot of the itinerary: Palazzo Camelli in Villa Lagarina.
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Name of the project: Open Air
Name of the project in local language: A Cielo Aperto
Location: Latronico, Italy
Time period: Since 2008
Key words: Culture, Education, Tourism
Level of participation: Partnership
“A Cielo Aperto” is a public art project that takes place in the old town of Latronico. The project aims to build a widespread open-air museum where various works dialogue with the environment, intervening in the urban space with co-designed art projects. For the space analysis, we focused on where the art intervention “A Flag for Latronico” took place: Largo Eleonora Pimentel, called “The Castle.” This place is the highest part of the old town, looking at a beautiful panorama.
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Name of the project: Art to Art
Name of the project in local language: Arte All’Arte
Location: Poggibonsi, Italy
Time period: From 1996 to 2006
Key words: Culture, Education, Tourism
Level of participation: Partnership
“Art to Art” is a public art project born in 1996 thanks to an idea of “Associazione Arte Continua” and concluded in 2006. The project aimed to promote the municipalities in the province of Siena and Florence as an agrienvironmental art district, linking and balancing contemporary art with the beautiful Tuscan historical heritage. Each of the ten editions of Arte all’Arte has produced several interventions by international artists in the public space. For the space analysis, we focused on the 9th edition carried on in 2004 in Poggibonsi, specifically on the artwork by Antony Gormley, “Fai spazio, Prendi posto” (Making Space, Taking Place).
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Name of the project: Fireplaces, Meetings and experimentation in the rural area
Name of the project in local language: Foghíles, Incontri e sperimentazione nello spazio rurale
Location: Semestene, Italy
Time period: Since 2018
Key words: Culture, Education, Local traditions
Level of participation: Citizen Control
Foghíles project aims to extend and enhance the life of the little Village of Semestene, bringing in active people eager to promote and organize opportunities for meeting and experimentation in the rural area and to imagine and design the future of the place together. Every year, it takes place for ten days in September and then includes two days of meetings during the following solstice and equinox. The activities take place in different locations around the village; for the space analysis, we focused on one of the spots: the Bia Lada farmland.
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Name of the project: Big Benches Community Project (or BBCP)
Nickname: BBCP
Location: Vezza d’Alba, Italy
Time period: Since 2010
Key words: Culture, Tourism, Industry
Level of participation: Partnership
The “White Big Bench” is an out of scale bench located on the highest point of “Bricco del Castellero “hill. The place hosts Torion’s ruins but was left abandoned until 2014 until it was renovated and turned into a recreational space for tourists and local walkers. This big bench is part of the broader “Big Bench Community Project”, a non-profit initiative promoted by the American designer Chris Bangle and his wife Catherine to support local enterprise, tourism, and craftsmanship in the towns that host these out-of-scale installations.
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