The REW European week, packed with artistic and cultural events, is part of the RESCUE – Regeneration of Disused Industrial Sites through Creativity in Europe – European project funded by the EACEA Creative Europe programme, and is headed by the municipality of Santo Stefano Magra along with partners from Italy (Gli Scarti), Austria (Klanghaus Untergreith), Slovenia (X-Op) and Germany (ibug).

From 13 to 18 September, the former Fabbrica Vaccari will come back to life as a site with a cultural and creative vocation, a great big workshop of ideas and activities where new fields of knowledge, new languages and innovative regeneration practices can be tried and tested, researched, developed, produced and explored.

The week starts off with the TRANSNATIONAL ARTISTIC RESIDENCY, from 13 to 15 September, with international artists in a medley of performances for a shared experience of cultural experimentation and exchanges. The installations and performances will be open to visitors all week.

On 16 September the “‘Pray and Labor’: Frameworks, Stories and Practices of Disused Sites” TRANSNATIONAL WORKSHOP will reflect on action programmes, European best practices and disused site regeneration experiences in Europe.

On 17 and 18 September appointment with CANTIERI CREATIVI, a wide-ranging dialogue between different generations and cultures on architecture, economics, theatre, music and the visual arts, centred around the debate on the landscape. The event is coordinated by the NOVA project committee: Massimo Biava, Mario Commone, Lara Conte, Mario Giannoni, Juri Mazzanti, Michela Passalacqua, Giancarlo Pietra and Simone Venturini.

TRANSNATIONAL ARTISTIC RESIDENCY
13–15 SEPTEMBER

Participants:
JAKA BERGER, SL: musician and composer
ENRICO CASALE, IT: theatre director and trainer
ROBERT DEUTSCH, DE: visual artist
LUCA DI MAGGIO, IT: painter
MARIO EGGER, AT: technical realization
CHRISTIN HAUPT, DE: media designer, art pédagogue
MAJA HODOŠČEK, SL: author of video works, installations
BOJANA KRIŽANEC, SL: sculptor and performer
ZAHRA MANI, UK/PK/AT: musician and composer
TONI SOPRANO MENEGLEJTE, SL: visual artist
BARBARA POLAJNAR, SL: performer, producer, and pedagogue of theatre workshops
ALESSANDRO RATTI, IT: artist and set designer
XUAN, USA: new media artist, filmmaker and pianist
MIA ZABELKA, AT: violinist, vocalist and sound artist
KLARA CHARLOTTE ZEITZ, DE: author of essays, short stories, video works and
installations

TRANSNATIONAL WORKSHOP
16 SEPTEMBER

10.00 I. OUVERTURE: TALES FROM THE RESCUED FIELDS
Greetings
Roundtable: Tales from the Rescued Fields
Comune di Santo Stefano di Magra (Italy), Klanghaus Untergreith (Austria), X-Op (Slovenia), ibug (Germany), Gli Scarti (Italy)
Chair: KLANGHAUS UNTERGREITH

11.30 II. BEST PRACTICES
MANUEL FERNANDO RAMELLO, AIPAI
Know to preserve. Tools for the regeneration project.
SANJA POPOV LEBAN, KLANGHAUS UNTERGREITH
Reflexions of regeneration beyond the industrial
PETER TOMAŽ DOBRILA, ŽIVA KLEINDIENST, KID KIBLA/X-OP
Industrial Heritage as a Multipurpose Venue
PIETRO PERELLI, CONSORZIO FACTORY GRISÙ
Regeneration Practices: The Grisù Consortium Factory in the Giardino Neighbourhood
Chair: IBUG

16.00 III. RE-FRAMING DISUSED INDUSTRIAL SITES
MASSIMO PREITE, ERIH Board Member
La European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) e la rigenerazione del patrimonio industriale
The European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) and Regeneration of the Industrial Heritage MICHELA PASSALACQUA, Università di Pisa / Comitato Progetto NOVA
Regeneration after Abandonment. The Jurist’s Viewpoint
GUIDO GUERZONI, Università Bocconi
Culture-based Urban Regeneration Projects and Economic Sustainability Models: International Experiences Compared
FRANCESCO CARERI, Stalker / Osservatorio Nomade / Università Roma Tre
Transurbances: Losing Oneself as Urban Regeneration
Chair: SIMONE VENTURINI, Università di Udine / Comitato Progetto NOVA

21.00 REFLECTIONS OF EMPTY SPACES
Sound performance
ZAHRA MANI - bass guitar, field recordings
JAKA BERGER - drums, objects, modular synth

CANTIERI CREATIVI
17–18 SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER
16.30 BARBARA BOSCHETTI, Università Cattolica di Milano
Earth and Soil in the Green Transition

17.00 RICCARDO VENTURI, storyteller and contemporary arts critic
What is a Dialectical Landscape

18.00 GIORGIO FURTER, architect / Studio NuvolaB
Planning the Remaining Landscape

Chair: MICHELA PASSALACQUA, Università di Pisa / Comitato Progetto Nova

21.00 QUANTUM NOISE
Sound performance
MIA ZABELKA - violin, voice

SATURDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER
11.00 TAVOLA ROTONDA: UN LUOGO EVENTUALE
Progetto di ELENA CAROZZI, BEATRICE MEONI, PHILLIPPA PECKHAM Conversation with LINDA BERTELLI, SANDRA BURCHI, CECILIA CANZIANI
Chair: LARA CONTE, Università Roma Tre / Comitato Progetto Nova

16.00 ALESSANDRO MELIS, architect / New York Institute of Technology
Exaptation and regeneration

ECONOMIA CIRCOLARE, PRATICHE DELLA CURA E RIGENERAZIONE
16:20 STEFANO CHIODI, Università Roma Tre
Genius Loci. History and politics of a myth

17:00 DANIELA CAPPELLETTI and DANILO SERGIAMPIETRI, Fabrica
Social Living and Urban Regeneration: A Project for La Spezia

17:30 PAOLO MARCESINI, Italia Circolare
Regeneration as Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of the Circular Economy

18:00 TAVOLA ROTONDA / Roundtable
Participants:
JULIA LAGAHUZÈRE, Opera for Peace
PIERO MANZONI, NeoruraleHub
LORENZA BARONCELLI, Triennale di Milano
Chair: LARA CONTE, Università Roma Tre / Comitato Progetto Nova
PAOLO MARCESINI, Italia Circolare

19.00 CERAMIC VOICES – VOCI DALLA CERAMICA
Live performance with recorded voices and electronics
TONI GARBINI live dramatics
ERMAN PASQUALETTI iPad
JERONIMO MARCO MERINO iPhone and electronics

ACCOMPANYG PROGRAM 

TUESDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER
15.00 / 19.00 WORKSHOP
BARBARA POLAJNAR: Industrial heritage and aesthetic of the oppressed

FRIDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER
10.30 WORKSHOP
CHRISTIN HAUPT: Tales on tiles

SATURDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER
14.30 and 19.20 VISIT TO THE ART ZONES
16.00 / 19.00 CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP
“PICCOLO LEGNO” a cura COOPERATIVA ZOE

IN ADDITION
ELENA CAROZZI, BEATRICE MEONI and PHILLIPPA PECKHAM
A Potential Place
TONI GARBINI Ceramic Voices
ALESSIO GIANARDI Fathers (John Herschel, Renzo Gianardi)
FABRIZIO PREVEDELLO Portrait

RESCUE is a project co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union. As part of the project, partners from Italy, Germany, Slovenia, and Austria enable high school students and local people to explore the history of abandoned industrial sites to jointly design how to turn them into sustainable spaces for cultural activities.
https://rescue-eu.com/

Project partners: Comune di Santo Stefano di Magra, IT; Klanghaus Kultur, AT; ibug e.V., DE; Associazione Culturale Gli Scarti, IT.

The project is co-financed by the Creative Europe of the European Union program, the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Municipality of Maribor.

Grant Agreement 607507-CREA-1-2019-1-IT-CULT-COOP1