The Seeding Belmondo workshop took place at Casa di Belmondo, in Belmonte Calabro, Calabria in November of 2022, with 10 students and 11 partners from Italy, Greece and France.
For this first workshop of the Italian cycle, students, professionals and universities were invited to inhabit BelMondo’s Casa spaces, creating a different form of Domestic workplace : il “Cantiere Domestico”.
A vernacular exploration, in search of a balance between technical and social needs, accelerating the relationships between the people who live in the Casa to address its potential and future transformations.
We had the chance to discover the project of Casa di Belmondo and all its specificities, and, we propose to reinvent an abandoned part of the casa : la cantine.
Pedagogical objectives
This workshop consisted in activating la Casa di Belmondo on different scales.
We built the working group and prepare the ground for the next workshop, sowing ideas through direct experience with the spaces of Casa Belmondo, the practices of the collectives and the techniques of the local artisans. Inhabiting the space thus becomes an experience of collective growth, a search for social, material and cultural textures that highlight needs.
We did not focused on building something specific but tested fragments for the rooms in the Cantine to learn how to make elements that can create hybrid places. A place that can respond to various needs based on what will collect from students, locals, and professionals who live and work temporarily in the Casa.
We tested and learned different processes thanks to the different people and artisans we met during the week: Franco, a local tiler, Gerardo Vespucci, a local historian.
Educational environments
Co-design and co-production : redesigning an abandoned area of the house into a hybrid space using materials that have been reused or recovered directly from the dismantling of certain parts of the Casa di Belmondo.
Reflexive Discussions : How to use local materials and construction techniques to develop different areas of the house: the second floor, the kitchen, the canteen, etc.
Participants involved
Students : Francisco Dellacasa, Salvatore Costanzo, Valentina Versaci, Margherita Oberto, Valentina Negro, Martina Garruti, Anastasia Dremlyuga, Lorenzo Fortunato, Yeliz Erinc, Enrico Vercellino.
Partners : La Rivolluzionne delle seppie, Orizontale, Politecnico di Torino (Ianira Vassalo and Silvia Lanteri), Collectif Etc
Photos credit : Giulia Rosco
