Le Seppie is a non-profit organization dedicated to the transformation of the territory of Calabria. The organization aims to improve the cultural fabric of the community, to promote social integration and development of the villages of Amantea, Belmonte and the surrounding area. Le Seppie’s mission is to imagine how vacant buildings can become a resource for the community. Rita Elvira Adamo, co-founding member of Le Seppie, architect and researcher, proposes to take the experimental field that she has been developing for 3 years in Calabria to test this collective project scheme and produce results that can be exploited in the context of higher education, as among professionals in the field of architecture, town planning and diverse arts and crafts.
The research of the “BelMondo” project of La Rivoluzione delle Seppie – through an international digital network of creatives working in Belmonte Calabro – aims to experiment with new and more advanced forms of urban and social reactivation.
The experience that is taking place in Calabria has gradually taken shape through the annual editions of Crossings (2016-2021) as an intertwining of activities that have generated a set of workshops and moments of meeting and cultural exchange between different stakeholders.
With minimal architectural interventions, based on the construction of wooden and travertine floors, and with the installation of furniture and furnishings, Casa di BelMONDO – a former nun’s house – has been transformed, starting from the first floor, into a factory of ideas, research, and experimentation.
The project is open to everyone and is destined to be part, permanently, of the urban context and to be the trigger for cultural, artistic, and social activities useful for developing a non-formal educational program.
Not only Belmonte, but also Belmondo.
https://larivoluzionedelleseppie.org/
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