Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

TAKING CARE - designing for the common good / progettare per il bene comune

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INDEX p. 2 Dario Franceschini, Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism p. 3 Paolo Baratta, President of la Biennale di Venezia p. 4 Federica Galloni, Commissioner of the Italian Pavilion Director General Contemporary Art and Architecture and the Urban Peripheries p. 5 Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and for Suburbs (DGAAP): info sheet p. 6 Initiatives sponsored by the Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Suburbs of the MiBACT on the occasion of the Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale 2016: workshop info sheet for students of the Italian p. 7 A new social architecture p. 9 Press release p. 10 A pop language for communicating architecture p. 11 ‘Thinking the common good’ p. 13 A map of the common good p. 14 ‘Meeting the common good’ p. 15 20 examples of outer city living p. 20 ITALOGRAMMA p. 21 ‘Acting the common good’ p. 23 Device zero technical sheet p. 24 CULTURE BOX: AIB + ALTERSTUDIO PARTNERS = BIBLIOHUB p. 25 GREEN BOX: LEGAMBIENTE + ARCò = U.M.A. p. 26 HEALTH BOX: EMERGENCY + MATILDE CASSANI = ARTICOLO 10 p. 27 LEGALITY BOX: LIBERA + CONCEPTUAL DEVICES = CAMPO LIBERO p. 28 SPORT BOX: UISP + NOWA = TO MOVEs p. 29 Civic crowdfunding: Taking Care, outer cities in action

p. 30 Low Cost / Social Value p. 30 Low Cost / Social Value p. 30 Stack, Giardino delle Vergini p. 31 Sponsors p. 43 Credits

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Dario Franceschini Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism Italy in the postwar period saw sustained growth of the outer suburbs, due to the need to rapidly reconstruct the housing stock of the country devastated by the conflict and provide homes for hundreds of thousands of displaced people. This was an original feature of republican history that has left an enduring imprint on the model of urban development, culture and society in our country. As a result, millions of people today live, work and dream in the outer cities, places where old and new residents – often immigrants – come together and relate to each other. It is here that the challenge of integration has to be won, it is here that the destiny of the twenty-first century will be decided. Designing these spaces, respecting their identities, restoring their beauty and harmony, is the great role that architecture has to play in this context. The Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is intended to serve as a laboratory for imagining instruments capable of fulfilling this commitment. Taking Care – Designing for the Common Good seeks to explain how small interventions can trigger collective actions capable of reducing social exclusion, promoting preservation and environmental awareness, and regenerating the suburbs. The creative energies of young designers together with the vitality of the voluntary organizations can identify approaches that serve the need to create better cities, where women and men will be able to develop networks of relationships, local economies and innovative modes of belonging.

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Paolo Baratta

President of La Biennale di Venezia In Italy there are 65,000 students of architecture. The average per inhabitant is 2.5 times higher than in the rest of Europe. The disproportion is obvious. In few other countries in the world is there such a gap between the desire to work in this field, young people’s interest and the intention of the population as a whole to seek the services of architecture. This country has experienced a building boom, which reached sizeable proportions in the past. But its tumultuous development was not accompanied by an adequate concern and adequate ambitions for the quality of space of our working and living conditions. The crisis, that has left Italy stagnant for some years, has increased the difficulties for the authorities in charge of the governance of spatial planning, especially local authorities, with their ever tighter budgets. The majority, rather than governing development and investing revenues, seek resources from spontaneous developments to fill up their balance sheets, taking such revenues as they can obtain in exchange for concessions. Lacking financial resources, they have become increasingly bereft of projective capacity; they are in no position to operate on a large scale or carry out sufficiently substantial projects to make significant contributions to the improvement of the governance of land use, in particular of urban and suburban land. The resurgence of projects for improving the way we dwell and live appears to rest on hopes for the growth of new energies that will express a demand within society for valid projects on a range of different scales, capable of representing innovation and recomposing communities. And this needs to be done at all levels. Given the sense of impotence that generates the apparent absence of any desire to go beyond the anonymous and banal, and the almost geological stratifications of building without architecture, there is a need for vital energies that encourage institutions to find solutions with a greater breadth and sense of responsibility. In these circumstances, any contribution to this increased vitality is valuable. To the series of exhibitions organized in the Italian Pavilion – from Italy Seeks Home curated by Francesco Garofalo to Ailati by Luca Molinari, Italian architecture, from Adriano Olivetti to the Green Economy by Luca Zevi and Grafting by Cino Zucchi – this exhibition also reflects what has been said above. Over the years each curator sought expressions of vitality in grafts, conversions, nostalgic reminders of past experiences and high-quality events, albeit confined to individual isolated examples, and all showing the gap between what it is possible and what actually get built. Meanwhile a renewed concern for making a more rational use of land and the improvement of the conditions of our suburbs gives reason for hope. The country has to overcome the contradictory dualism between the present reality of unsatisfactory volumetric developments offset only by the cult of the heritage. It has to inhance a desire for its present and its future in which to recognise its capabilities for self-governance, its culture. Architecture can make the difference. New desires and vital energies are the basis of this year's project for the Italian Pavilion.

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Federica Galloni Commissioner of the Italian Pavilion Director General Contemporary Art and Architecture and the Urban Peripheries “TAKING CARE – Designing for the Common Good” explores and is consistent with Reporting from the Front, the theme presented in this Biennale Architettura by Alejandro Aravena: a concrete vision of architecture in the service of the community. When it comes to taking care of individuals and communities, spaces and places, values and resources, this is architecture that makes a difference. It helps spread the principles of culture, sociability, participation, health, integration and legality to any place and on any scale, and makes them effective. It is architecture that can improve the built environment and, consequently, the quality of people’s lives. By fostering contemporary creativity, the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and the Urban Peripheries also seeks to deal with the challenges raised by urban environments with difficult problems. It seeks to make a contribution to government policy which is fully informed of these issues and concerned to deal with them. To curate the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016, the Minister Dario Franceschini chose the TAMassociati curatorial team: Massimo Lepore, Raul Pantaleo and Simone Sfriso. The project “TAKING CARE” aims to create a virtuous process that, through participatory, intelligent, creative and effective architecture, disrupts the status quo and transforms marginal landscapes into places of socialization, exchange and sharing. The periphery-frontiers present a wide range of complex situations, while remaining the most vital places in society. They are constantly being transformed, because they are more open to experimentation. They are the first to have to face and absorb the dramatic changes in contemporary life. Often, however, they are also the places that suffer most from deprivation and social degradation. In addition to specific urban projects or social policies, architecture and culture can also do a lot. These are some of the strategic objectives of the General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and the Urban Peripheries, whose institutional tasks include promoting cultural projects to support better practices in the regeneration of Italian outer cities. Under the pressure of current national and local policies, from above the Government has identified substantial funding to create new models of metropolitan welfare in these areas, allocating it to social, educational and scholastic services and cultural activities promoted by both public and private subjects. From below, the answer, as the exhibition makes clear, has to be participatory in nature and directed at the common good, as clearly expounded in the first section of the curatorial project. In this respect the project “TAKING CARE” is much more than a theoretical experiment. It is a call to action, a method of intervention. The five devices will be assigned to so many associations engaged in various ways in seeking to reduce marginalization. They will travel nationwide and stimulate participation by the citizens in the places where they live.This investment is therefore being made in public space, in ways that will educate and unite, incorporate differences, and help unify social, functional and spatial diversity, which has to be understood as a value.

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THE DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART AND ARCHITECTURE AND AND SUBURBS (DGAAP)

INFO SHEET Fostering art and contemporary architecture promoting creativity to construct a collective identity to regenerate the urban suburbs The Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Suburbs (DGAAP) is the office of the MiBACT dedicated to the contemporaneity. Promoting and valorizing, supporting and enhancing, understanding and protecting are the actions through which the DGAAP conducts its mission. The visual arts in the broadest sense (painting, sculpture, photography, video, installations, performances, etc), architecture and design as well as the regeneration of the urban peripheries are its field of competence. The institutions, the public heritage, creative talent (artists, photographers, architects, designers and many others), the new generations, students and scholars are its subjects, always with a view to supplying the final beneficiary – the city – with the best possible uses and contributing to this country’s cultural growth. The DGAAP conducts its actions through a series of instruments: implementing laws and programs over which it has exclusive competence, agreements established with other public institutions and private bodies, the conception of specific initiatives, participation in and support of activities, and incentives to research projects. The results of the DGAAP’s activities take concrete form in competitions and commissions, acquisitions, training courses, exhibitions and events, research projects and much else. The DGAAP was established with Ministerial Decree 171/2014 (art. 16 c 4 and subsequent amendments) and has been operative since February 2015. Website www.aap.beniculturali.it Via di San Michele 22, 00153 Rome T +39.06.67234851

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INITIATIVES PATRONIZED BY THE DIRECTORATE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART AND ARCHITECTURE AND SUBURBS OF THE MiBACT AT THE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2016 DESIGNING FOR THE COMMON GOOD 3 workshops for students at Italian Schools of Architecture and Engineering The Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Suburbs of the MiBACT, in agreement with TAMassociati, curators of the Italian Pavilion at the forthcoming 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – 2016, is promoting the presentation of three themed workshops directed by some of the designers in the exhibition. The workshops are for students at Italian Schools of Architecture and Engineering. CONTENTS

The workshops, theoretical and practical in approach will explore the subject of design for at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Lasting three days, they will be held twice monthly (from June to November 2016) at the VEGA Science and Technology Park in Venice Marghera. They will be directed by some of the architects featured in the exhibition as tutors. The students will be selected directly by the teachers and will come from six Faculties of Architecture in Universities of the North, Centre and South (Padua, Syracuse, Mantua, Alghero, Rome and Cosenza). They will work and exchange ideas with their colleagues from another Faculty. They will then be subjected to a final assessment conducted by a commission headed by the Directorate and TAMassociati and comprising some of the guest architects at the 2016 Italian Pavilion. SCHEDULE The calendar is: - 1st workshop June 2016; - 2nd workshop July 2016; - 3rd workshop September 2016. VENUE: VEGA – Parco Scientifico Tecnologico di Venezia Via della Libertà, 12, Venezia Marghera www.vegapark.ve.it

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A NEW SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE The project TAKING CARE arises in the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016 and then takes root and exists outside it. It gives us a vision of architecture in the service of the community. It seeks to show how architecture makes the difference when it takes care of individuals and communities, spaces and places, principles and resources. Architecture concentrated on society can curb marginalization and exclusion and become a driving force for new visions, a powerful medium for communicating, an instrument through which many outer city areas can claim rights, progress, opportunity and inclusion. Within the framework of the Biennale Architettura we wanted to offer tangible proof of how architecture, with its specific skills, can help spread and make effective the principles of sociality,

participation, health care, integration and legality, everywhere and on any scale. By embodying these principles, architecture in this millennium will increasingly have to engage with and find answers to the challenges that the city and environment present not only to architects, but to all the most responsible “designers” of the near future. Our work stems from a specific idea of architecture as a collective task. Our proposal for the Italian Pavilion is in keeping with that vision: a collective effort in which we have involved other approaches particularly attentive to places, communities and local resources. The architecture that we present in the exhibition was born from these approaches, often working with limited resources, but rich in ideals. And it has grown through constant exchanges with other practices, in a process of construction of meaning which seeks to establish common categories such as belonging, identity, sharing and understanding. This idea of architecture does not promise a new theory. Rather it is constructed as a complex practice conducted through cooperation with the numerous socio-cultural organisations active in various outer city areas. In this complex and often disaggregated setting, architecture has to reconstruct its own role as a common understanding appropriately disseminated and shared, capable of caring for places and developing human capital in every community. The “periphery” is in fact not just a physical space: it is also a mental space, namely the cultural margins in which the essential idea of housing is to be found. Architecture will continue to act as an instrument of resistance only if it is able to cope with this marginalization and build new contexts in which this part of society identifies itself and can satisfactorily organize the rules by which it lives. It will have to deal with many challenges; but participatory architecture, intelligent, creative and effective, caring and responsible, will certainly succeed in undermining the status quo, conceiving and building better places. And since in architecture policies becomes places, the exhibition will also be a powerful reminder of the responsibilities and potential of politics in everyone’s lives. It shows that even an architectural construct, fixed or mobile, temporary or permanent, can become a political subject that defends and affirms people’s rights. We intend to respond to the theme “Reporting from the Front”, chosen by the artistic director Alejandro Aravena for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. If the problem identified by us in the field is associated with the peripheries, then well to the fore, in the front line, we find the many associations coping daily with marginalization and degradation.

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The exhibition also seeks to bear witness to this specifically Italian factor, which could provide an original model for new welfare policies. But, above all, TAKING CARE is intended to start a dialogue between architecture and the varied world of achievements and projects conducted by associations, with the aim of establishing a social laboratory for experimentation and change. Significantly architecture, together with the legal and socio-economic disciplines, is playing a leading role in the current debate on common goods, which the exhibition explicitly evokes. Architecture, by definition, is an agent in the processes of manipulation and transformation of goods (whether private, public or common), but it also participates increasingly in the process of affirmation of values such as identity, awareness, appropriation: values involved in any process of construction (and management) of space and goods, and all the more so when they take on the character of the common good. Our thesis is that the process itself constitutes a common good, capable of generating new knowledge, a sharing of resources, the spread of democracy and greater comity. It is the task of architecture to gather the best energies to meet this challenge, without withdrawing into its own specialist universe remote from the society which it claims to serve.

TAMassociati

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PRESS RELEASE ITALIAN PAVILION at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia Taking Care - designing for the common good curated by TAMassociati TAKING CARE is the keynote that TAMassociati (Massimo Lepore, Raul Pantaleo, Simone Sfriso) – appointed by the Minister Dario Franceschini the curatorial team of the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016 – has chosen in keeping with the theme of Reporting from the Front proposed by Alejandro Aravena to recount an architecture created with communities and capable of sharing needs and aspirations. Taking Care is promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Suburbs (DGAAP), directed by Federica Galloni, Commissioner of the Italian Pavilion. "Taking Care”, say the curators, “is an action that arises in the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016 and then takes root and spreads outside it to generate a new civic awareness”. It is a highly social vision of architecture, but also the root of its being. The theme is divided into three sections, 'Thinking', 'Meeting' and 'Acting', resting on three specific issues involving the common good. It urges visitors to recognize it, when it is found around them, the institutions to promote it, even with limited resources, and designers to embody it in architecture. 'Thinking' is a survey of the theme of the common good, its value and the relations it forms with the built space: an approach enriched by the contributions made by people from different cultural and professional backgrounds, who look beyond the current definitions. 'Meeting' is an exhibition of 20 architectural projects, all produced by as many design offices in Italy and abroad. Taken together, they recount how subjects, when they become co-authors, can create spaces and places useful to the community, so devoting equal importance both to the processes and the built work. This section identifies 10 areas of investigation – legality, health, living, environment, education, culture, play, science, nutrition and work – accompanied by a gallery of photographs that give visible form to the idea of the common good in Italy. 'Acting', the culmination of the exhibition, is embodied in a concrete call to action. 'Acting' presents 5 displays of the mobile devices designed for direct intervention in marginal areas of Italy. They are mobile units mounted on trailers, designed by 5 Italian firms in collaboration with 5 associations long engaged in seeking to curb social and environmental degradation: AIB (Italian Library Association), Emergency, Legambiente, Libera, UISP (Italian Union for Sport for All). With private sponsors and a civic crowdfunding campaign (Taking Care – outer cities in action, the first in Italy dedicated to the outer suburbs: www.periferieinazione.it), the devices will be built and take to the roads to become concrete instruments of preservation and social redemption. The exhibit design and the catalogue of the Pavilion are notable for the Pop language of an original graphic novel and prominent illustrations, as well as the low-cost policies adopted and the recycling of the materials (including the reuse of wood from the Irish pavilion at Expo 2015) indoors and in the grounds of the Tese delle Vergini. www.takingcare.it

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A POP LANGUAGE FOR COMMUNICATING ARCHITECTURE When talking about the outer city, all too often the tone is sombre and resigned. But in the Italian Pavilion we want to speak of the life hidden in the peripheries: stories, love, intelligence, enthusiasm… For this reason we have chosen a “Pop” language, which, through the graphic novel, creates a special empathy with the stories we tell. The graphic novel helps relocate the story in a different place, with the main character being given the task of bearing a message of optimism for the future. Our protagonist is a silent anti-hero, often awkward and with an ironic take on the myth of the hero, a figure that contemporary architecture tends to dwell on all too often. His is a neutral mask that effaces all differences – one that expresses the essence of man in the theatre – a face without an identity but with all identities enclosed in it. It is not an individual, but all individuals in one. This is the meaning of our choice: to recount architecture, “an eminently social art”, as a phenomenon that concerns us and belongs to us all, without distinction.

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THINKING THE COMMON GOOD

Architecture capable of thinking the common good is useful as well as beautiful architecture, since it encourages a process of appropriation, identity and care, and makes the message its own, itself becoming a common good. It becomes an instrument and place for triggering processes of social innovation. Coordinated by Andrea Mariotto (partecipatory policy making), Ezio Micelli (real estate economics), Giuseppe Longhi (urban planning), Emiliano Gandolfi (urbanism and curatorship), Luca Molinari (architecture and curatorship), Emanuela Saporito (participatory design and urban studies), Francesco Marsciani (semiotics), Maurizio Coccia (contemporary art criticism), Sandro Scandolo (physics), Davide Tommaso Ferrando (architecture criticism), Daniela Ciaffi (community planning), Alessandro Franceschini (fair trade), Matteo Passini (ethical and cooperative finance) have contributed to the path of identification, discussion and prospects of the relations between the architectural discipline and the common good, creating an “orientation map” on the common good, constructing it on 3 specific questions:

what example best explains your idea of the common good?

why does the theme of the common good seems so pervasive?

who would you put these questions to? Here are some extracts from the Catalogue: Daniela Ciaffi “[…] The general cultural framework in which this transition is inscribed is the passage from the bipolar paradigm of administrators-administered to the collaborative paradigm in which public, private and third sector build new alliances. And the common urban and territorial goods are the extraordinary laboratories of this new era. […]”. .

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Maurizio Coccia “[…] Within the scope of the common good, action and object presuppose each other, and meet in the collective purpose, the public interest. Salus populi suprema lex, said Thomas Aquinas. Acting for the common good means guiding everyone towards the good of the community […]”. Davide Tommaso Ferrando “[…] Il processo prima del risultato, la funzione prima della forma, la società prima dello spettacolo. Per entrare a far parte dei Commons, in altre parole, è necessario che l’architettura si costituisca prima di tutto come strumento politico […]”. Alessandro Franceschini “[…] Architecture can play a major role with one of its distinctive talents, the art of design for the common good. This is a useful practice to begin the process of sharing and participation in the decision-making phase and to keep up interest in the maintenance phase of projects relating to the territory, resources, urban and rural environments […]”. Emiliano Gandolfi “[…] To construct a discourse of urban sharing, you first have to create its alphabet, a lexicon for the conquest and preservation of the common good. […]Needs - The important thing is to define needs. Distrust marketing: desires can wait […]”. Giuseppe Longhi “[…] With regard to physical space, the relevance of the common goods is bound up with their transformation due to climate change and their increasing rarity due to the intensity of use generated by population growth, consumption and emissions in developed countries, and their neglect by governments […]”. Francesco Marsciani “[…] Community architecture, social, committed and binding on the one hand; management of the common good, on the other, with the gratuitous dispersive maintenance of whatever supports life as such – that of individuals, groups and nature that sustains us […]”. Ezio Micelli “[…] Transforming the problem areas of cities and territories into opportunities for new communities of work, culture and welfare. Public ownership triggers virtuous paths of self-organization in which citizens are committed not just to participation in decision-making but also acting […]”. Luca Molinari “[…] Architecture has the strength to interpret complexities and bind them to each other, to make them comprehensible by turning them into joint projects. It produces hope because it works on the idea of the future […]”. Matteo Passini “[…] The focus should be placed not so much on the common good (land), but on the process (design, production, management, organization) that will convert it into a resource for all, capable of meeting community needs […]”. Emanuela Saporito “[…] It is possible to make a list of public and private property, but not of common goods, because people are continually surprised by discovering new ones, constructing new alliances on them, and dedicating their energies to them […]”. Sandro Scandolo “[…] More generally, material goods are now increasingly the result of thoughts and emotions, solidarity and hope, namely of that immeasurable common heritage which humanity is slowly but surely regaining possession of […]”. Andrea Mariotto Moving beyond the common good means avoiding its objectication, and the risk of reducing it to a commodity, while appreciating its ability to make us actors in fully sustainable processes.

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A MAP OF THE COMMON GOOD

Once composed the map, curators have selected 20 architectural projects, all produced by as many design offices in Italy and abroad. Taken together, they recount how subjects, when they become co-authors, can create spaces and places useful to the community, so devoting equal importance both to the processes and the built work. This section identifies 10 areas of investigation – LEGALITY, HEALTH, LIVING, ENVIRONMENT, EDUCATION, CULTURE, PLAY, SCIENCE, NUTRITION and WORK – accompanied by a gallery of photographs that give visible form to the idea of the common good in Italy.

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MEETING THE COMMON GOOD

The selection of 20 projects for the "Meeting the common good" ranges over different fields, but with one distinctive feature: the architecture is not present only as a technique of manipulation and transformation of goods (whether private, public or common), but above all as part of a process that significantly valorizes intangible components such as knowledge, awareness, identity, membership, rights: categories that are themselves a common good for the community. The projects were analyzed in keeping with the criteria proposed by Global Goals (September 25, 2015). One or more of the following objectives have been attributed to each project: No poverty, Zero hunger, Good Health and well-being, Quality education, Gender equality, Clean water and sanitation, Affordable and clean Energy, Decent work and economic growth, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities, Responsible consumption and production, Climate action, Life below water, Life on land, Peace, justice and strong institutions, Partnerships for the goals.

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20 EXAMPLES OG OUTER CITY LIVING

_________________ RESTART type: museum and cultural space location: Casal di Principe, Caserta designers: DIANARCHITECTURE + RS ARCHITETTURA

_________________ ELNODO ESTACIÓN CREATIVA type: independent cultural center location: Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico designers: A.C. ELNODO, Fernando Carrera Viesca CTRL+Z, Gianluca Stasi STRADDLE3, David Juarez Latimer-Knowles LAMATRAKA, Jaime Fernández Contreras

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_________________ SER.MI.G. - SERVIZIO MISSIONARIO GIOVANI type: multipurpose center location: Turin designers: COMOGLIO ARCHITETTI

_________________ NOIVOILORO type: civic center location: Erba, Como designers: IFDESIGN

_________________ BIG CITY LIFE type: regeneration project in space, buildings and public areas through public works of contemporary art location: Tor Marancia district, Rome designers: ATER DEL COMUNE DI ROMA 999 CONTEMPORARY

MUNICIPIO VIII DI ROMA

_________________ NUOVA CASA SOCIALE type: public building for culture and fun location: Caltron Cles, Trento designers:

MIRKO FRANZOSO ARCHITETTO

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_________________ FARM CULTURAL PARK - XL ART GALLERY type: modern art gallery, space for the arts, multipurpose space, restaurants, urban farming spaces, co-working space for seminars and events. location: Favara, Agrigento designers: LAPS ARCHITECTURE + CASTELLI STUDIO

_________________ CANTIERE APERTO type: project of collective restoration of the social theater, Gualtieri location: Gualtieri, Reggio Emilia designers: ASSOCIATION TEATRO SOCIALE DI GUALTIERI

_________________ GRATOBOWL type: public skatepark location: district Gratosoglio, Milan designers: City of Milan – Department of Sport, Health, Leisure, Parks, Quality of life, Personal, Animal welfare, and General services - Parks and Agriculture Sector

_________________ ESTONOESUNSOLAR type: temporary interventions in vacant lots location: Saragozza, Spain designers: GRAVALOSDIMONTE ARQUITECTOS

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_________________ NUOVO PARCO DORA type: urban park location: Turin designers: LATZ + PARTNER STUDIO PESSION ASSOCIATO

_________________ BALESTRATE SEAFRONT REDEVELOPMENT type: waterfront location: Balestrate, Palermo designers: AM3 ARCHITETTI ASSOCIATI

_________________ SCHOOL IN SHUFAT REFUGEE CAMP type: school location: Jerusalem designers: DAAR - Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency

_________________ SSIC PROFESSIONAL TRAINING CENTER location: Gordola designers: DURISCH+NOLLI ARCHITETTI

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_________________ OPIFICIO GOLINELLI, CITADEL FOR KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE type: research center and cultural spaces location: Bologna designers: DIVERSERIGHESTUDIO

_________________ TECHNOPOLE FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH type: park of innovation and knowledge location: Reggio Emilia designers: ANDREA OLIVA ARCHITETTO

_________________ PARCO DEI PADULI type: multifunctional rural green area location: province of Lecce municipalities involved of: San Cassiano, Botrugno, Surano, Nociglia, Supersano, Giuggianello, Sanarica, Muro Leccese, Scorrano e Maglie, Puglia designers: METAMOR ARCHITETTI ASSOCIATI L.U.A. LABORATORIO URBANO APERTO LABORATORIO URBANO BOLLENTI SPIRITI. “ABITARE I PADULI”. UNIONE DELLE TERRE DI MEZZO

_________________ JELLYFISH BARGE type: greenhouse for cultivation in the urban and peri-urban environment location: Pisa, Milano designers: ANTONIO GIRARDI E CRISTIANA FAVRETTO + PNAT

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_________________ BASE MILANO type: BASE - center for culture and creativity location: Milan designers: ONSITESTUDIO

_________________ H-FARM / H-CAMPUS type: administrative complex and training campus location: Roncade, Treviso designers: z a a _ ZANON ARCHITETTI ASSOCIATI

ITALOGRAMMA

At the end of this narrative, the exhibition circuit opens with a display of photographs that give visible form to the idea of the common good in Italy.

ITALOGRAMMA is a four-handed project that aims to give visible form to the cluster of meanings, signs and feelings underlying the concept of the common good in Italy. Between 2005 and 2012, Fulvio Orsenigo and Alessandra Chemollo travelled through Italy photographing situations and events where people gather to share common interests, passions or needs: public places or private locations hosting public events, where small or large heterogeneous groups become communities, for however a short time.

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ACTING THE COMMON GOOD

The project Taking Care is presented at the Biennale with the express intention of taking root, growing and spreading outside it, generating a new civic awareness. To this end, we are presenting a display of five original projects for 5 mobile devices designed for five Italian associations involved in the struggle against marginalization in outer city areas. They consist of 5 mobile containers, based on standard modules, for dealing with emergency conditions. They have been customized in a joint operation conducted by the designers and associations invited to participate in this Biennale and coordinated by the curatorial team. Construction of the 5 devices will be financed through private sponsorships and civic crowdfunding (Taking Care - outer cities in action / periferie in azione: www.periferieinazione.it). When donated to the associations at the end of the exhibition, the mobile devices will go into action, performing the functions for which they were designed. They will become embedded in real situations, in places where they can prove their social utility, bringing a project of subsidiarity, quality, beauty, design and rights where these are now missing or deficient. For this reason, the associations have been selected on the basis of their ethical content and effectiveness, with a particular concern for the impact they are already making in the outer cities and other areas where they are active. Similar criteria have been adopted in choosing the designers to work with the associations, selected for their commitment and personal histories, with the emphasis on teamwork as a professional paradigm. On display is the Device Zero: the basic platform for all the designers. The container on wheels hosts the video “Device Zero” recounting its construction and the profound significance of this generative element.

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The 5 devices will be: CULTURE BOX: AIB Italian Library Association with ALTERSTUDIO PARTNERS Space for reading and an access point to information and book loans, to promote socialization among adults and children. --- GREEN BOX: LEGAMBIENTE non-profit organization with ARCò – SOCIETÀ COOPERATIVA Structure for monitoring the environment and raising environmental awareness. --- HEALTH BOX: EMERGENCY non-profit organization with MATILDE CASSANI Mobile clinic for health care and cultural mediation. --- LEGALITY BOX: LIBERA. Associations, names and numbers against the mafias with ANTONIO SCARPONI / CONCEPTUAL DEVICES Center in the heart of a property confiscated from the mafia: a place open to the public, devised to involve migrants, schools and young people, a space for thinking and acting. --- SPORT BOX: UISP – Italian Union Sport for All with NOWA (Navarra Office Walking Architecture) Permanent center for education in civil coexistence, respect and active citizenship through play, sport and movement.

photograph: Device zero under contruction, Still frames: “Dispositivo Zero”” Matteo De Mayda (direction)

Federico Torres – (director of photography)

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DEVICE ZERO TECHNICAL SHEET Device zero was the basic module from which the designers have started to develop the mobile units to suit the needs of the associations with which they were coordinated.

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SCHEDA TECNICA CULTURE BOX

PROJECT’S NAME BiblioHUB

Space for reading and an access point to information and book loans, to promote socialization among adults and children

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ASSOCIATION AIB Italian Library Association

DESIGN TEAM ALTERSTUDIO PARTNERS

FREQUENCY OF MOVEMENTS

every 4-6 months

FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITIES

continuous

LOCATION OF THE FIRST STAGE

Milan, Famagosta, Barona District, southern outer city

photograph: Andrea Avezzù, ≪Scintille, Milano, Famagosta≫, 2016

AIB Italian Library Association The AIB represents Italian librarians in all cultural, scientific and institutional fields. It has done so for more than eighty years, backed by the voluntary work of thousands of people who identify themselves with the values of an association founded on the principles of freedom of thought and opinion, equality, access to knowledge and culture, inclusion and equity. The association was created to encourage the development of libraries in Italy and support an active role for libraries in society. ALTERSTUDIO PARTNERS biography Alterstudio Partners is an architectural office based in Milan since 1996. It works in the field of design on different scales, with a particular concern for public libraries, cultural buildings and public spaces. Wherever possible, it applies community planning methods and strategies. It has completed more than 300 projects commissioned by public and private clients and participated in national and International competitions, receiving significant recognition and awards. Its partners combine their professional activity with research and cultural initiatives. .

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GREEN BOX TECHNICAL SHEET

PROJECT’S NAME U.M.A. Environmental Monitoring Unit

Structure for monitoring the environment and raising environmental awareness.

ASSOCIATION LEGAMBIENTE non-profit organization

DESIGN TEAM ARCò – società cooperativa

FREQUENCY OF MOVEMENTS

every 2-5 days for 5-month campaigns

FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITIES

Daily scientifi c activities, weekly popular science activity at the end of the monitoring phase

LOCATION OF THE FIRST STAGE

Rome, Casilino neighbourhood of Villa de Santis Park

photograph: Andrea Avezzù, ≪Scintille, Roma, Casilino≫, 2016

LEGAMBIENTE non-profit organization Founded in 1980, Legambiente is the largest environmental association in Italy. It is notable for uniting a scientific approach and activism with raising awareness and encouraging participation by citizens in its initiatives and campaigns. ARCÒ – SOCIETÀ COOPERATIVA biography ARCò is a cooperative founded by a group of engineers and architects engaged in architectural, urban and landscape design. Their projects are based on research into social, economic and environmental sustainability. This approach has led ARCò to engage with international cooperation to tackle projects dealing with humanitarian emergencies. Apart from applied research, for many years the members of ARCò have been engaged in educational activities in universities and private institutions in Italy and abroad.

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HEALTH BOX TECHNICAL SHEET

PROJECT’S NAME Articolo 10

Mobile clinic for health care and cultural mediation.

ASSOCIATION EMERGENCY NGO, non profit organization

DESIGN TEAM MATILDE CASSANI

FREQUENCY OF MOVEMENTS

daily

FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITIES

Mon-Fri from 9 am to 6 pm or from 3 pm to 9 pm

LOCATION OF THE FIRST STAGE

Naples, Ponticelli District

photograph: Andrea Avezzù, ≪Scintille, Napoli, Ponticelli≫, 2016

EMERGENCY NGO, non-profit organization Article 10 is a project that provides basic health care through the EMERGENCY Association. The device includes a basic outpatients clinic and a waiting room, sheltered and shaded, on the outside. A system of overlapping curtains provides shade in summer and insulation in winter. During the night, a bright sphere illuminates the surrounding area, enlarging its field of action to a public space and indicating its presence even at a distance. MATILDE CASSANI biography Matilde Cassani moves on the borders between architecture, installation and performance. Her practice reflects the spatial implications of cultural pluralism in the contemporary Western urban context. She teaches at Politecnico di Milano and Domus Academy. She is conducting research into “holy urbanism” and works as a consultant for the World Bank. Her works have been exhibited and acquired by many cultural institutions and published in various International reviews.

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LEGALITY BOX TECHNICAL SHEET

PROJECT’S NAME Campo Libero

Center in the heart of a property confiscated from the mafia: a place open to the public, devised to involve migrants, schools and young people, a space for thinking and acting.

ASSOCIATION LIBERA. Associations, names and numbers against mafias

“ALTERECO” - Società Cooperativa Sociale (recipient of the device)

DESIGN TEAM ANTONIO SCARPONI / CONCEPTUAL DEVICES

FREQUENCY OF MOVEMENTS

every 4-6 months

FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITIES

Daily, weekly

LOCATION OF THE FIRST STAGE

Cerignola, Foggia province, rural area

photograph: Andrea Avezzù, ≪Scintille, Cerignola, Campo Libero≫, 2016

LIBERA. Associations, names and numbers against the mafias Libera is active nationwide with a network of over 1,600 associations and member organizations and over 10,000 members and volunteers. The association promotes the social use of assets seized from mafia groups and provides education in legality. It is active in outer cities, where it makes the focus of its work the citizens themselves, who often suffer from marginalization. ANTONIO SCARPONI / CONCEPTUAL DEVICES biography Conceptual Devices, founded by Antonio Scarponi in 2009, is engaged in the development and completion of interdisciplinary projects on various scales. It is engaged in the design and construction of various devices that promote the use of urban agriculture and closed loop technologies to achieve self-sufficiency in energy and food. Within this approach, urban agriculture is not just a system of food production but an instrument for regenerating the built environment. .

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SPORT BOX TECHNICAL SHEET

PROJECT’S NAME

TO MOVEs TOrino MOvement, Values, Expression, Sport

Permanent center for education in civil coexistence, respect and active citizenship through play, sport and movement.

ASSOCIATION UISP - Italian Union Sport For all

DESIGN TEAM NOWA (Navarra Office Walking Architecture)

FREQUENCY OF MOVEMENTS

Present long-term in the Parco Dora, Turin, with periodic events in various parts of the outer city

FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITIES

twice a week

LOCATION OF THE FIRST STAGE

Turin, Parco Dora, former stripping area

photograph: Andrea Avezzù, ≪Scintille, Torino, Parco Dora≫, 2016

UISP - Italian Union Sport for All Uisp gives everyone a chance to be active, play sports and enjoy their rights as citizens. Sportpertutti uses basic equipment and reclaims outer suburbs and poor areas. UISP promotes integration, favouring a social campaign of inclusion through sport in schools and communities, opposing discrimination and violence, racism and homophobia. It educates to equal opportunities, the common good and participation. NOWA (NAVARRA OFFICE WALKING ARCHITECTURE) biography The office has been practising architectural design for many years as a unique occasion for the transformation of urban waste into resources for cities and territories. NOWA works on an idea of extreme architecture practised on its ground zero in order to respond to boundary conditions in economics, constraints and programs. NOWA was a finalist in the Mies van der Rohe Prize (2003), the European Prize For Urban Public Space (2006) in Barcelona and the BBS Swiss Architectural Award (2008). NOWA won the Medaglia d’oro, the first prize for Italian architecture at the Milan Triennale (2003) and the Gubbio prize (2006). Nowa’s projects have been published in Italian and International architectural magazines (Lotus, Domus, Abitare, A+U, C3, Paiseia, A10).

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CIVIC CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN - TAKING CARE – OUTER CITIES IN ACTION Legality, Health, Environment, Socialization, Culture. Make your contribution to the rebirth of the outer cities. In the “Acting” section Taking Care presents a concrete proposal for action in socially disadvantaged areas: 5 new projects for 5 mobile devices to be donated to 5 national associations involved in the fight against marginalization in outer city areas of Italy. To make the action effective, the devices on display are the protagonists of a civic crowdfunding campaign: a great collective fundraising project. The five associations – AIB Italian Library Association, EMERGENCY NGO, non-profit organization, LEGAMBIENTE non-profit organization, LIBERA. Associations, names and numbers against the mafias, UISP – Italian Union Sport for All – have come together with the aim of giving voice to their actions in the outer cities, using the devices to support their intervention projects. The goal is to transform the places for the benefit of the community, using the devices as centers defending the values identified as common goods: legality, health, the environment, socialization and culture. The amount needed to give life to the project TAKING CARE – Outer cities in action is Euro 360,000. With this figure the construction of the 5 devices can be completed and their operations ensured for the first two years. The campaign runs for 6 months starting from the inauguration of the exhibition on 25 May until 27 November 2016. The project has its own platform: www.periferieinazione.it

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LOW COST / SOCIAL VALUE The exhibition installation is low cost. Today low cost basically means increasing efficiency and eliminating the superfluous, while optimizing services and costs to the benefit of end users and society. Low-cost design can be an extraordinary opportunity to focus on the question of the real nature of consumption and develop a different philosophy of creating value starting from parameters of real social utility. It is increasingly necessary, as the exhibition design seeks to show, to simplify in order to restore technology and costs to economy and efficiency. In the context of the Biennale, a large temporary event, care to reduce waste is a fundamental theme of the installation. In the Teatro alle Tese, with support from Viabizzuno Progettiamo la Luce, the display reuses lighting equipment supplied for a previous art exhibition. The exhibit design retained some plasterboard partitions already installed, while with the help of Albertani Corporates, Oikos, Milan Ingegneria and Metalmontaggi, it reused the laminated wood panels of the Irish Pavilion at the Milan Expo. Likewise, the exhibition installation in the leisure space of the Giardino delle Vergini, designed by Luigi Greco and Mattia Paco Rizzi, was self-built reusing materials from the Irish Pavilion. In the same way, when the exhibition ends, Fantoni will recover and recycle the timber. A simple gesture, but consistent with what the exhibition aims to show in terms of a concern for resources.

STACK, GIARDINO DELLE VERGINI

A garden, a need, a material. This is the source of the installation by Luigi Greco & Mattia Paco Rizzi / GRRIZ. Set on the edge of the Italian Pavilion, the Giardino delle Vergini is the natural focus of the exhibition layout at the Biennale. Hence the need to create a restful, reflective place and offer it to visitors. The material absorbs the effects of this attitude.

Wood, recycled from the dismantling of Expo 2015, is placed here in a state of momentary stillness, worked and altered as little as possible in order to meet the future needs of those it is offered to. When the event ends, the material will gain a third life.

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SPECIAL THANKS Camera Service Rental Metalmontaggi Pixartprinting Special thanks to the OPW, Office of Public Works, Republic of Ireland, for permitting us to reuse the wooden panels from the dismantled Irish Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015.

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Treviso, May 2016

Arper supports the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016, “Taking Care

– designing for the common good”, curated by TAMassociati.

TAKING CARE, the theme of the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at La

Biennale di Venezia, curated by TAMassociati (Massimo Lepore, Raul Pantaleo, Simone Sfriso) in line

with “Reporting from the Front” by the director of the Architecture Biennale 2016, Alejandro Aravena, tells

of architecture created with the communities.

A definitely social view of architecture developed in three sections, ‘Thinking’, ‘Meeting, and ‘Acting’: an

exploration on the theme of the common good, a review of the most interesting projects in this area and,

above all, a specific call to action.

The section entitled ‘Acting’ is the highlight of the exhibition, and hosts the aliases of five structures that

have been conceived to offer direct intervention in Italian areas of marginality: mobile modules designed

by five Italian design studios in collaboration with just as many humanitarian organisations: AIB (the

Italian Library Association), Emergency, Legambiente, Libera, UISP (the Italian Association of Sport for

All).

The modules will be built and made roadworthy to become concrete tools for promoting social

improvement and protection.

The creation of the vehicle for Emergency is supported by Arper, an Italian company that manufactures

and distributes design furniture for the contract sector all over the world. Established in 1989, today Arper

is a leading global business with an innovative and cultured way of thinking that encourages sustainable

choices, from materials to processes, from the environment to the focus on the individual.

As Claudio Feltrin, President of Arper, states: “We chose to support this initiative because we believe that

businesses have an important social responsibility. Supporting the Emergency module in providing

medical care and cultural mediation in the area gives Arper the opportunity to contribute to the common

good through decisive action, by raising awareness on issues regarding health, which is not only a value

but also a fundamental right of our society.”

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Casalgrande Padana

Casalgrande Padana proud sponsor of the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia TAKING CARE – designing for the common good Venice, 28 May to 27 November Casalgrande Padana has been manufacturing state of the art ceramic materials for envelopes, floorings, and coverings for over 50 years, meeting any creative and technological requirement in the world of architecture and design. An example of Italian excellence that has oriented its industrial policy towards innovation and respect for the environment. Production and projects are the pillars of the Group’s strategy. Casalgrande Padana products have been used for thousands of projects in every corner of the world, becoming part of the everyday life for thousands of people, as well as for making iconic works by the greatest names in contemporary architecture. This commitment translates into the promotion of important initiatives, such as the Grand Prix, the prestigious international architectural contest established in 1990 to award the works that best enhance the value of Casalgrande Padana products. The 10th awards ceremony will be held on 27 May in the Tolentini Aula Magna of the IUAV University of Venice, in conjunction with the Vernissage of the 2016 Architecture Biennale. Casalgrande Padana is a global company deeply rooted in its territory. It operates according to a corporate social responsibility approach and believes in corporate citizenship; that’s why it supports numerous projects with a social, cultural, and institutional impact both in its territory and in developing countries.

Casalgrande Padana is a proud sponsor of the Italian Pavilion at the at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. An opportunity that goes beyond the spirit of participation and is part of the company’s continuous and shared commitment to designing and manufacturing for the common good.

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Casalgrande Padana via Statale 467, 73 42013 Casalgrande (Re) Italy Tel. 05229901 Fax 0522841010 www.casalgrandepadana.com www.grandprixcasalgrandepadana.com info@casalgrandepadana.it

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15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia The mission of Finstral, a South Tyrolean company which is among the European leaders in the production of windows and doors, is the constant pursuit of innovation - with special regard to functionality and design. Finstral always looks for cutting-edge solutions, the result of many years of study, commitment, professionalism and experience. Always the right choice. The use of advanced technology allows Finstral to realize windows of great value, both in terms of performance as well as aesthetics, which enlighten living spaces while considerably reducing energy costs. The products include a wide range of customized solutions for residential and industrial buildings, renovation and large construction projects. The many possible combinations of shapes, different types of sashes and frames, openings, glazing and panels are designed to satisfy the most diverse housing needs. Materials range from PVC to PVC-aluminium, wood-PVC, wood-PVC-aluminium and aluminium. Finstral products stand out for their high thermal performance, sound insulation, protection from sunlight and high resistance to break-ins. Special safety equipment can be applied to most of the product range. Finstral is also one of the few companies in Europe to directly manage the entire production chain, starting from the choice of PVC granules to the manufacturing of the profiles and the production of insulation glass, up to the assembly of the finished window. Everything comes from one source: the customer always has the certainty of being in good hands. The installation is crucial for the prefect functioning of a window: one of Finstral’s many strengths therefore is the certification for installation obtained by the prestigious ift - Institute for window technology of Rosenheim (D). Always at the top. Finstral is the ideal partner for planners and architects, assisting them with the professionalism that comes from more than forty-five years of experience. The support offered is a very practical one, thanks to technicians able to directly assist the planner in his work. To communicate with its customers on a new level, presenting issue-related topics and new points of view on the world of windows and doors, the Finstral universe so to speak, the new Finstral magazine, F_01 was presented to the press in May 2016. The magazine, apart from highlighting the latest products, offers literary texts and interviews with architects – showing a totally new clean and linear graphic design and numerous high quality images representing the care for aesthetics that has always characterized the company. Also the structure of the magazine is very original, with its two reading directions: one may read it starting from the inside to the outside or vice versa. Just turn it upside down to change perspective - like a window, in fact, also the magazine can be experienced from two sides: from the inside and from the outside. The presence of Finstral in the Italian Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale 2016 is the natural setting of a compendium of ongoing commitment to architects and planners and the peculiar philosophy of building windows.

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Finstral S.p.A. Tel. 0471/296611 www.finstral.com finstral@finstral.com LISTA R.P. e Ufficio Stampa Tel. 02.58306251 - lista@comm2000.it

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Venice, May 2016 Oikos colour and matter for sustainable architecture is sponsor of the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, "Taking Care" curated by the firm TAMassociati Oikos has always been a reference point and benchmark for architects and designers, “since its foundation in the eighties, it has worked together with some of the greatest Italian and international architects, demonstrating an intense and continuous capacity to innovate in the design of colour and matter. This has been and still is, a great privilege” Claudio Balestri, founder and president of Oikos affirms, putting into context the participation of Oikos at the event in Venice “Taking Care – designing for the common good, looks to be a tangible example of how architecture can contribute to the spreading of culture, social relations, participation, health, integration and legality in all places and all spheres”. TAMassociati with the exhibit “Taking Care” looks to present architecture as a service to the local community, care for individuals, of spaces and of resources. An architecture that is able to make a difference, with a spirit that has always been the life blood of the Venetian architectural office. An architecture that is engaging and intelligent, able to break the status quo and imagine a better future that also involves the re-use of materials. The spaces of the exhibit in the Italian Pavilion have been realized with panels from the Irish Pavilion at Expo and with colour and matter Oikos, created using the waste matter from other productive processes. An exhibit conceived and created with the concept of re-use. Oikos stimulates a culture of responsibility and proposes itself as a producer of colour and matter for sustainable architecture, always guaranteeing care and respect for the environment. From the very beginning, Oikos has worked according to its plan for eco-sustainability and re-cycling of waste in a period when these words were not even known on the market and this is totally due to its belief in “green growth”: every year Oikos re-invests a considerable portion of its turnover in innovation, not only focused on products but also on the companies productive and organizational processes. It is therefore a promoter of a new style of company, showing that it is possible to do business without ruining our ecosystem. Two entities, a union based on shared ideas with a propensity to research within a culture that reflects on the future of mankind, on its well being and its relationship with the environment and the landscape that surrounds it. The Oikos range of solutions, interacting with the themes narrated in the exhibit “Taking Care”, create a colour experience that accompanies the visitor in the Main Halls of the exhibition. The result of this collaboration, that represents the perfect coming together of the great Italian architecture and Oikos, will be on show at the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – Tese delle Vergini all’Arsenale, Venice – from the 28th May to the 27th November 2016. www.oikos-group.it

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ALBERTANI Corporates

"You can't think about architecture without thinking about people". In this meditation by Richard Rogers we find not only the vision-mission of Albertani Corporates but also the target of the next edition of Biennale Venezia 2016. By combining quality and sustainability since 1972 to ensure their customers benefit from ultimate domestic comfort in the settings completed, Albertani Corporates express their passion for glued laminated timber (Glulam), by emphasising the versatility and particular features of this extraordinary material. The company has specialised in designing, producing, distributing and installing wooden buildings which have proven extremely popular across the globe, because these constructions

can, as Le Corbusier would say, “rouse emotions”. Just like those that this 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will stir, under the direction of Alejandro Aravena, which Albertani has the honour of participating in by completing the preparation of the Italian Pavilion, built by exploiting a unique characteristic of Glulam and Xilam panels: namely, their ability to be re-used. Indeed, the structure of the Pavilion was created with the material from the Irish Pavilion at Expo 2015: the wood gets a new lease of life, and the architecture affords new, intense emotions. Albertani Corporates provide the static calculations, produce in house the glulam and Xilam components and install buildings for private and public destination, residential and multi-purpose.

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Viabizzuno progettiamo la luce technical sponsor

Viabizzuno: for twenty-two years the firm has brought together experience, knowledge and research in order to express the special way it does lighting design. Viabizzuno’s design thinking is identified in its logo, a white space crossed by two lines. One vertical, rigorous and balanced, Form, and the other inclined, irreverent in space, ironic, unconventional Alvaline. Their intersection gives rise to UpO, Ufficio progettazione Ombre, which employs 70 designers with multidisciplinary skills and expertise. The company’s staff number some 130 in all, with 6 showrooms Viabizzuno inmilano, inroma, innapoli, innewyork, inlondra, inparigi, and 38 lighting spaces around the world. Viabizzuno Casa at Bentivoglio, near Bologna, is the space where we engage in research into and the design of new lighting systems capable of meeting every lighting need. We work with international designers, but are faithful to a product made entirely in Italy. For us designing is a way of relating to life. Design is a form of the verb to love.

For the design of the Italian pavilion at the at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia Viabizzuno has chosen to use the revolutionary n55 system, a light bulb designed by mario nanni, which combines as never before quality, ecology and research, placing at the disposal of Italian genius the highest levels of technical performance, environmental sustainability and lighting quality. ________________________________________________________________________

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Banca Etica is the technical sponsor of the Italian Pavilion at the

15th International Architecture Exhibition of

La Biennale di Venezia - "Taking Care"

A civic crowdfunding and ethical finance project to relaunch Italian suburbs

Banca Etica is the technical sponsor of the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, "Taking Care", curated by the architectural firm TAMassociati. Banca Popolare Etica supplies the technological platform for a civic crowdfunding project and ensures that all transactions will take place within the virtuous circle of the ethical finance.With the project "TAKING CARE - Designing for the Common Good", TAMassociati develops architecture as a social art and a tool at the community service to access the common goods, providing a call to action for communities in degraded and marginal areas. In this vision of architecture at the community service, the project "Suburbs in Action" was developed as a platform for civic crowdfunding to raise 350,000 euros, to make five mobile devices, tailored for the specific needs of five Italian associations actively engaged in social, human and cultural recovery of Italian suburbs: Emergency, promoting access to healthcare; Libera, dealing with the social use of real estate confiscated from organized crime; UISP, Unione Italiana Sport Per Tutti, setup to promote social integration through sport; Legambiente, which aims at monitoring and improving environmental conditions; and AiB – Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, committed in making culture accessible. "Ethical finance is a proven means to support urban regeneration initiatives, due to its innate pursuit of an harmonious development of people, society, environment and the economy. The cooperation with TAMassociati based in Venice runs in this direction - said Ugo Biggeri, Chairman of Banca Etica – providing to five important players of national civic associations the crowdfunding tools with the aim of recovering suburbs. We think that this is one of the many ways to put finance again at the service of people’s welfare, inclusion, sustainable growth and legality ".

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Banca Etica is the first as well as the only Italian bank entirely devoted to ethical finance, which operates

in the country through a network of branches, itinerant bankers and home and mobile banking services.

Banca Etica collects savings of engaged citizens and organizations and uses it entirely to fund projects

for public welfare. Since it was born in 1999, Banca Etica has been growing steadily and has been

granting loans for over 2 billion euros to support over 25,000 projects of organizations, families and

businesses in the field of social cooperation, international cooperation, culture and quality of life,

environmental protection, housing rights and legality. In 2014, Banca Etica opened its first branch abroad,

in Bilbao, Spain. Together with Produzioni dal basso, Banca is a pioneer in crowdfunding projects.

For more info, please contact:

Chiara Bannella – Ufficio stampa di Banca Etica – cbannella@bancaetica.it- Tel.+39 06.42016060

+39.334.6883414 www.bancaetica.it – Twitter: @bancaetica

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COFILOC AND TAMASSOCIATI SHARING SOCIAL, RESPONSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE The Cofiloc Group enthusiastically welcomed TAMassociati’s request for collaboration in the preparation Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016. Making expertise and plant available for such a major project is an important part of the history linking the company with the Venetian firm. Their relationship has been strengthened with a series of projects – the Cofiloc branches in Modena and Codroipo, the Zané and Silea offices, establishment of Cofiloc School – based on a shared vision of architecture. Namely, the need to be social, responsible and sustainable. Cofiloc School – a centre for operator training in proper and safe use of site plant – is proof of this. The “RiforestiamoLaPiana” project saw restoration of a derelict building formerly used to store building materials, situated in an area of environmental value on the River Musestre in Breda di Piave. Its harmonious integration into the landscape and coherent architectural structure required careful selection of environmentally friendly and energy-saving materials, as well as the study of a plan to manage and increase the green spaces. Here, as in the previous projects, every single decision was taken considering the quality of the environment, life and work. A nonnegotiable principle which will continue to link Cofiloc and TAMassociati.

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Cofiloc is Italy’s leading independent group specialising in plant hire for lifting, earthmoving, building and trucks. It is present in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna and Lombardy with 10 branches. Some of the most innovative plant in its hire fleet is used in the assembly and disassembly of the Italian Pavilion.

www.cofiloc.com

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Fantoni partner to Circular Economy Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016 Fantoni has been chosen by the firm TAMassociati for an innovative project to illustrate the virtuous recycling process used for the X-lam panels removed from the Irish Pavilion after Expo 2015, which will now give life to an innovative exhibition in the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, before being converted into chipboard panels by Fantoni. The production of 100% recycled chipboard panels is in fact one of the main activities of Fantoni group, founded in 1882, and now a leader in the production of office furniture, partition walls, MDF and chipboard panels and sound-absorbent panels. All stages of the production process are completed within the network of companies belonging to the Group, which all operate synergically to develop their products: from the production of materials and semi-finished products, to the design of innovative office furnishing systems. The Fantoni Group produces its own resins, impregnates the paper to face its panels, and thanks to its eight hydroelectric power stations and its cogeneration systems, it also contributes autonomously to its own power needs. Each year, Fantoni group recovers 200,000 tons of local post-consumer wood, plus a further 300,000 tons from offcuts derived from the wood-processing industry. Waste from in-house processing, such as bark, and dust produced when sanding panels, are recovered within the same production process, being used to produce thermal energy. Wood waste is recycled using efficient collection systems, including the Rilegno network and a series of platforms located close to major town centres. Italy is the most virtuous country in Europe when it comes to the recycling industry, and among the leaders for the eco-efficiency of its production systems.

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FREITAG TOTE BAGS The International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is taking place every two years. And FREITAG? They’re the F-actory that turns used truck tarpaulins into arty, crafty function you can sling over your shoulder. Here’s how it all comes together. FREITAG is honored to make a modest contribution to the Italian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia which runs from May 28 to November 27, 2016. On this occasion, the world leader in the truck-tarprecycling industry will be doing what they do best: making bags. FREITAG offers the Italian Pavilion of this year two different sizes of Tote Bags: F92 DUNPHY and F93 BINGHAM. As with every R.I.P. – Recycled Individual Products -, they are water repellent, and thus perfectly suited to one last boat chase scene through the canals of the Drowning City. And the Tote Bags are even more unique than individual. Available in two sizes, these FREITAG Totes can be face lifted by getting a free F252 BANDIT at your Venetian reseller Tonolo Selezioni. This additional strap turns the Tote Bag into a safely gondolable backpack. ________________________________________________________________________ TONOLO SELEZIONI Opening hours Castello 5248/a, Monday till Fridayo: 10am – 1pm / 2pm – 7pm Campo Santa Maria Formosa Sunday: 10am – 6pm 30122 Venezia www.tonoloselezioni.com F92 DUNPHY Prize: EUR 98 F39 BINGHAM Prize: EUR 120 More Pictures: bit.ly/1OGibHr Media release FREITAG lab. Ag media@freitag.ch Zurich, May 2016 Binzmühlestrasse 170b, CH-8050 Zurigo Phone: +41(0)432103309

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Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism Dario Franceschini Under Secretaries of State Dorina Bianchi Ilaria Borletti Buitoni Antimo Cesaro General Secretary Antonia Pasqua Recchia DGAAP - Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and for the Urban Peripheries Director General DGAAP and Commissioner Italian Pavilion Federica Galloni Service Manager II Stefano D’Amico General Coordination Contact for Contemporary Architecture and for the Urban Peripheries Esmeralda Valente Administration Daniela Aquilini Massimo Epifani Maria Teresa Soldo

Secretary Annamaria Abbamonte Dora Giuseppina Campisi MiBACT Press Office Head of the Press Office Mattia Morandi Press Officers Francesca Saccone Carlo Zasio DGAAP Press Office Francesca Martinotti, studio Martinotti-Roma

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TAKING CARE – www.takingcare.it Curatorial Team TAMassociati: Massimo Lepore, Raul Pantaleo, Simone Sfriso Curatorial Staff Laura Candelpergher Ferdinando Crespi Andrea Mariotto Exhibit Design TAMassociati with: Valentina Milan Laura Candelpergher Enrico Vianello Graphic Design TAMassociati with: Elisabetta Facchinetti Marta Gerardi (illustrations) Emanuela Not Scientific Consultancy Section 2. Meeting the Common Good Maurizio Coccia Davide Tommaso Ferrando Emiliano Gandolfi Press Office Ferdinando Crespi with: Serena Capasso - 54words Social Media Ferdinando Crespi Website Sara Allevi Laura Candelpergher Video Concept and Production Matteo de Mayda (director) Federico Torres (director of photography) Lorenzo Tomio (composer) Alessandro Bertelle (editor) Martina Biagi (executive producer) Lea Dicursi (creative producer and editor) Marina Rosso (DOP assistant) Alessio Romeo (motion graphic) Cosimo Bizzarri (copywriter) Maddalena Borsato (philosophical consultant) Alice Lorenzon (color grading)

Photographers Andrea Avezzù Matteo de Mayda Process management Bold Secretary Arzanà Promotion ProViaggiArchitettura Civic Crowdfunding

Laura Candelpergher Silvia Faion Dario Brollo, Marco Gallicani, Teresa Masciopinto (Banca Popolare Etica) Produzioni dal Basso H-ART Tiziano D’Angelo (economic management) Translations Richard Sadleir Catalogue BeccoGiallo Editore Models Incastrapezzo by La forma del legno Contributors to the Production Gloria Bazzoni Oliviero Blasetti Laura Bottaro Annamaria Draghetti Milena D'Acunto Matteo Mazzamurro Ludovica Springolo Francesca Vittorini

Very special thanks to the staff of MiBACT DGAAP

and the staff of Biennale di Venezia

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Authorial Contributions 1. Thinking the Common Good Steering Committee Daniela Ciaffi Maurizio Coccia Davide Tommaso Ferrando Alessandro Franceschini Emiliano Gandolfi Giuseppe Longhi Andrea Mariotto (coordinamento) Francesco Marsciani Ezio Micelli Luca Molinari Matteo Passini Emanuela Saporito Sandro Scandolo 2. Meeting the Common good Projects A.C. elNodo, Ctrl+Z, Straddle3, lamatraKa AM3 Architetti Associati ASSOCIATION Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri ATER del Comune di Roma, 999 Contemporary, Municipio VIII di Roma Comoglio Architetti Comune di Milano – Assessorato allo Sport, Benessere, Tempo libero, Verde, Qualità della vita, personale, Tutela degli animali, e Servizi generali – Settore Verde e Agricoltura DAAR - Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency Dianarchitecture + RS Architettura Diverserighestudio Durisch+Nolli Architetti Mirko Franzoso Architetto Antonio Girardi e Cristiana Favretto + Pnat Gravalos Di Monte Arquitectos Ifdesign LAPS Architecture, Castelli Studio Latz + Partner, Studio Pession Associato Metamor Architetti Associati, L.U.A. Laboratorio Urbano Aperto, Laboratorio Urbano Bollenti Spiriti. “Abitare i Paduli”. Unione delle Terre di Mezzo Andrea Oliva Architetto Onsitestudio z a a_Zanon Architetti Associati

3 - Acting the Common Good Projects Alterstudio Partners ARCò – Società Cooperativa Matilde Cassani NOWA (Navarra Office Walking Architecture) Antonio Scarponi / Conceptual Devices Associations: AIB ASSOCIATION Italiana Biblioteche EMERGENCY ong onlus LEGAMBIENTE onlus LIBERA. Associazioni, nomi e numeri contro le mafie UISP - Unione Italiana Sport Per tutti “Italogramma” Photographic Exhibition Alessandra Chemollo, Fulvio Orsenigo “Catasta” Giardino delle Vergini Installation Luigi Greco, Mattia Paco Rizzi

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Fondazione Reggio Children, Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. della Provincia di Milano, Sistema Bibliotecario Milano – Comune di Milano, Co-Rent, GGG Elettromeccanica, T.B. Project Marie Aquilino, Marcello Bacchini, Carlo Balestrieri, Mattia Biadene, Roberto Bosi, Elisa De Bridda, Roberto De Carli, Lorenza De Carolis, Pino De Masi, Leopoldo Freyrie, Cecilia Gaspari, Maria Licci e Elena de Liberato (Agenzia Maria Licci), Maurizio Milan, Nicola Pacini e Claudia Marolla (Paar Architects Archives), Edoardo Narne, Rocher & Amouroux Architectes, Mara Rumiz, Francesca Serrazanetti, Silvia Stefanelli, Alex Steiner, Elena Svalduz, Emilio Trame, Enrico Trevisiol

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