txt: PROVINCIA ITALIANA
Provincia italiana is one of the Collateral Events to be held during the 12th Venice International Biennale of Architecture. The project consists of meetings, workshops, talks, and conferences in some of the most fascinating venues in the provinces of Vicenza, Venice, Padua, and Treviso.
It is a programme of events and activities taking place during the period of the Biennale in Palladian villas, a Second World War bunker, industrial areas, and abandoned factories. Provincia italiana is a laboratory for rethinking the territory, with architecture as its starting point, and for two months it will activate spaces and, above all, people.The projects aims are:
- to create a concerted territorial network for the exchange ideas about contemporary themes
- to capitalize on the territory’s historical/architectural heritage by using it as the scenario for events and activities
- to create an international context for animating the economic and social system
- to construct operative programmes for cultural situations, and to plan and activate experimental projects that will permit local situations to compete in global contexts
- to redefine the character of the territory by sparking off new approaches to social and cultural relationshipsProvincia italiana is a project promoted by C4 – Centro Cultura Contemporaneo Caldogno, organized by Fuoribiennale and Centro Studi Usine, curated by CulturAli, made in Innov(e)tion Valley
