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The intent of the workshop “Cantiere Barca” was to establish a space of commiunication, common activity and discussion with young people from Barca and Bertolla in their neighborhood.

Barca today is a modern suburb of Torino without any significant attractions for the young people living there. The project aims at promoting youth creativity in a place where the conditions of young people are difficult. The goal was to develop with the community a process of re-appropriation and exploitation of urban space.

Starting from the old social centre, with its very questionable qualities, we developed and build different objects (benches, a stage, a soccer field , hiding-places) to turn this common space into a meeting point for the neighborhood. In the building process the youngsters will learned step by step how to handle woodworking tools. Through the process of realising a collective idea the participants experienced that it is possible to make changes in their living environment.

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foto (c) Alessandra Giannandrea

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foto (c) Alessandra Giannandrea

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January 2012

Barca, Torino
June 2011

Francesco Apuzzo, Jan Liesegang mit Christian Göthner, Laura Zachmann, Jana Gunstheimer, Manfred Mülhaupt

workshop participants: Federica Tagliabò, Federica Beretta, Giorgio Ceste, Laura Mongi, Matteo Passero, Stefano Rocca, Matilde Cembalaio, Linda Misuraca, Morad Lebtoumi, Adil Lebtoumi, Daniele Patrizio, Teresa Frasce, Mario Frasce.

in the context of Situa.to and curated by a.titolo (Francesca Comisso, Lisa Parola and Luisa Perlo), Maurizio Cilli and Giulia Majolino, Alessandra Giannandrea, Francesco Strocchio, promoted and supported by the Piedmont Region, Culture Department, the City of Turin and the Compagnia di San Paolo, Goethe Institut Torino, Fondation de France.