where we would have gone or what was the
our tree goal enters a gentleman
he looks around and says but this is a
place of perdition
and then adds to families in a moment
understood what our goal is
also that we had reached it beginning
2000 years a district ward
difficult
some citizens go down the street for
defend their streets their squares i
their places from the occupation of people
that they consider inappropriate
disqualifying other citizens instead
put together to manage the
change
make culture and make your own
welcoming and hospitable neighborhood
some of these associations are based
the local development agency of san
save and start a freedom to look for a
place to carry out their activities
a public place that is not only of
public property but open easy
immediate and possibly abandoned a
himself to be redeveloped they find it
and in front there is also a small square that has
need a settled once
women and men families went
there to take a shower and then wash
when the apartments start to
having a bath inside there has not been any more
nobody
and that place has been left to itself
same a perfect place to be
put back into place to be returned
to the citizenship spaces for the
associations
this was the initial requirement but it was
immediately clear that that place could not
be just some
he had to be there all the use of the
space had to be shared
management could be assigned to a
only subject but the fruition not
it could be exclusive it had to be a
open place a house of all and for
all but there was a problem
indeed three of us never had
managed a place there was not a
public funding for the
no project had yet arrived
request for use spaces and
Now this place as we fill
we were terrified
Then one day we get a
Afro dance teacher who offers us
to do his essay of the final course
in the courtyard of the neighborhood house
we were so obsessed with horror
if we say yes to them
one night I wake up with a start that
place was empty for ten years was in
half the houses the inhabitants were
accustomed to silence and us without even
to have opened
we will have debuted with a show of
Afro dance with live drums
a few days before the show
I was on the first floor a certain point
I feel a sort of boom in the earthquake
after six years of renovation
right now
then I realized the drums came for
the rehearsals of the show
I feel them a trofarello
sure after ten minutes a neighbor rings
the policemen were furious after a quarter of an hour
urban I can import them by explaining them
that it was enough to close some windows and
everything would be fine if they leave
for now until the day of the show
that was beautiful but that night
pay for years I had to do at least one
ten meetings with the population
the constituency the commissioner in which it is
he spoke only of drums those drums
that evening I’m sick of so many of those
times for debuting with one
Afro and true dance show that
when you start with the worst then all the
rest downhill for the inauguration
we put the posters throughout the city
look for house with terrace looking for house with
lounge party for the house circles with
courtyard so they said it was important that
that place was heard by everyone like
own home where to find
just that place more than at home
it was not just an occasion
of sociality and community
at the opening of the restaurant bar
came half a city I had signed the
delivery of the property to one of that
day and after a few hours the house was
packed with people for the inauguration
the real one the municipality of torino decides
to give us a gift a fountain but not
any stone fountain of
blue color a beautiful fountain
Moroccan fountain had to arrive
directly from fest that sphere for
be inaugurated in the courtyard of the house
to seal the twinning between the
city of fest and the city of turin the
inaugural speech was scheduled for the
at 18 o’clock I was first no news from
fer
after a while two nice come
kind officials of the municipality of torino
but still no trace of the fountain
after about an hour we see approaching the
driveway a whitish panda
with the boot half open is something
that protruded boys blue is
arrived the fountain is huge and now
who pulls it out of there goes out of the pandino
an official of the municipality of fez e
taciturn but small will never make it
then we call a Romanian friend of
good size that takes the fountain
hugs her and pulls her out of the
trunk
in the meantime a miracle 36 hours two thousand
kilometers in the trunk of a narrow
pandino and did not even have a line yes
opened with the best wishes
despite the drums after a few months
we did not know where to put people anymore
the spaces were all occupied
associations of citizens
Senegalese Filipino Communities
Peruvians a place where you take in
I use a space contributing to expenses and
one meets one exchanges one grows one yes
build experiences you play yes
eat, drink, where dreams coexist
ideas collaborate where faces and coexist live together
cultures that meet in that place
the lack of public funding
paradoxically he helped the
collaboration of the patrons of the
home was essential to create
this tool of sociality everything
new at the meeting with the association
we always say one thing that the house is a
place of all of which each must be
take care as it does of your own
living room of your own bathroom or
own bedroom this
incredibly beyond all
expectation increased the sense of
membership of regular visitors
of the house putting at ease those
instead it is enough to say only by chance
even for a few hours
we wanted this can be
perceived as a square in which the
people felt so comfortable at
be free to simply sit down
stay even without consuming in spite of
the presence of a restaurant bar a
day feels a scent of hot pizza
very good I approach the counter of the
buffet only healthy stuff then follows the
perfume I go on a terrace and I see that
there was a family sitting at a table
who ate some pizzas he had taken
in the neighborhood pizzeria I thought
that they understood spontaneously
natural just what we wanted
those who attend the house do not come alone
to carry out a specific activity but yes
stop even further to have lunch with i
own classmates to take a
aperitif with
the tory while the children finish the
violin lesson for co designing a
activities with others who do similar things
but not the same to share ideas
projects to make accessible innovation
welcoming open container of
planning but above all a place of
everyone and nobody’s exclusive and so
without realizing it, it really is
became a replicable model e
strongly replicated of that sense of
community of those who live it from that first
day from that first roar of drums
in the games of the children that there
they celebrate the colors of the paintings of the
artists that expose you to perfumes
of the kitchen spices and now there
I ask a question you have an idea a
I project a desire that you are never
managed to achieve it develop you have
never dreamed of for your home
a terrace a large living room for the
slices or a backyard
well now you know where to go
[Applause]
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