Cantiere Barca Book
2018

Francesco Apuzzo, Jan Liesegang

Publishing project: a.titolo

Editors: Francesca Comisso, Luisa Perlo

Administration: Nuri Gatti

Editorial assistants: Charlie Rooy Lana, Nicholas Sabena

Graphic design: Archive Appendix

Managing Editor: Chiara Figone

Translations: Sylvia Notini, Adelaide Cioni

Printing: Bianca & Volta

Softcover
192 pages
ISBN 978-3-943620-75-7
Price: 14€

Language: Italian, English

Publisher: archive books

a.titolo and raumlabor have published a beautiful little book full of pictures of, reflections on, and conversation about one of our favorite projects.

Cantiere Barca is an experimental art and architecture project for public space that, between 2011 and 2013, involved dozens of people who were constructing and place-making under the guidance of raumlabor, in a neighborhood at the furthest-most northeastern corner of Turin.

Cantiere Barca is a case study, one that has witnessed both success and failure. It is a reflection, a how to guide and a conversation, pondering concepts such as collective, community, the common good, participation, responsibility, utopia, and future.

Cantiere Barca is architecture as empowerment. In the years of endless crisis – in the economy, in politics, and in the environment – Cantiere Barca fulfilled the demand for identity and social recognition of a group of residents, who breathed life into a workshop of shared creative practices, and became creators of their public spaces. Taking its origin from this exchange of knowledge Cantiere Barca then undertook a journey from the urban periphery to the MoMA in New York.

with contributions and conversations from a.titolo, Francesca Comisso, Guilia Majolino, Jessica Kraatz Magri, Luisa Perlo, Maurizio Cilli and Pedro Gadanho and raumlabor

If you want to purchase Cantiere Barca / Wenn Sie Cantiere Barca bestellen wollen click here.