Isabella and Valerio are two young architects from Turin, Italy. They studied and worked together throughout the last eight years, becoming more and more partners in crime. They already led different experiences abroad, while studying Architecture at Politecnico di Torino,and after graduation. They are currently working in two separate firms in Turin as architects, but they continue their collaboration in Artieri, an Association with the aim to facilitate social and professional growth through self-building in italian prisons and urban marginal contexts. They first worked in the fields of arts in 2015, when they had the opportunity to make an internship in an art fair in Turin. Since this experience they understood how precious is art in our society, and they trust that an architect must be directly involved in it, not only to grow up as professional, but especially to enhance its language.
We can teach…
“In our former experiences, we had different opportunities to develop and improve time by time methodologies and research about self-building: especially in emergency environments, such as italian prisons or marginal urban areas, we tested a format that directly involved all those that will benefit of the result of the project. We realized, thanks to this format, that any project could be more successful than one that is thought, designed and then realized directly by the people personally interested in that result. We hope that we could have the opportunity to repeat our test in Girokastra, where not only we will exchange opinions with local artisans and citizens, but also we could share our ideas with other european artists, architects and designers.
We would like to learn…
“We are looking forward to start this art camp in Girokastra because we would learn more skills around the multisciplinary team working methodology. In fact we never experienced such a background as Girokastra: divided into its double nature, by one hand registered in Unesco, and in the other victim of economic crisis. We are very excited at the idea that our contribution, cooperating with other people (locals and not), will be part of an eventual enhancement for the city and for the citizenship.