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Terni, Italy

In 2016 Terni Festival reached the sky with the project Foresta: a small village of tree houses created in situ by makers and architects to host artists in residence for the following 10 days. These artists were invited to stay and lookout the city from a privileged perspective and to reimagine the city in conversation with the locals, a complex and share project between art and urban regeneration.

Surprisingly, beside engaging the city, these artists, Leonardo Delogu, Michele Di Stefano, Friso Wiersum and Veridiana Zurita become themselves a community together with Terni Festival.

Following up this adventure we decided to join our ideas, different views and backgrounds to co-curate the festival reshaping its time and space as a creative environment for people rather than being only a program of artists and works.

In 2017, climbing down from the sky, Foresta focus on how a festival can affect a city and viceversa and on how artists can have different roles in festival entering in di