VALLE DI BLENIO: MAKE THE VALLEY GREAT AGAIN! Investigate the real!
The Summer School Ticino 2018 will take place in the Blenio Valley – the valley of the sun – a place that has a great architectural and naturalistic charm, but that in recent times has difficulties related to depopulation, like in several other mountain regions. More and more people prefer to move to the centers and so, one by one, the workshops, stores, offices and villas close their doors.
With the 2018 Summer School we would like to find new forms of housing, commerce and use for abandoned spaces. The La Fabbrica del Cioccolato foundation, which is based in the historic Cima Norma company in Dangio, has decided to bring a new spirit to the valley through art and culture. With temporary residencies for artists, creative installations and much more, it is revitalizing a small village. The intention, however, is to gather ideas, which can help revive the whole valley step by step.
The cultural „district“ to which you will work, intends to involve the five villages of Blenio: Aquila, Torre, Campo Blenio and Ghirone. It is focused on traditional culture and activities, but also on innovation, starting from the chocolate factory, as an attractor and stimulator. The fundamental necessity is that any new idea is harmonious with the place, the infrastructures, the mobility and the resident population. The intervention must be modular, expandable and integrable in the different areas of the valley, almost in a form of „widespread cooperative“.
A new living concept!
Summer
The exercise is both architectural and urban, and sociological and economical. Students deal with the area, identifying the ingredients necessary for the development of their own idea.
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Chinese Culture University, Taipei Istituto Internazionale di Architettura, i2a La Fabbrica del Cioccolato, Foundation for arts, culture & entertainment ca.300 CHF Please register by June 8th mail to: SummerSchool @4567.ch www.hslu.ch/architektur
5-14 September 2018 Summer School Ticino 1