Regaining a sense of belonging
ExtrArtis
ExtrArtis, Artists Residencies for Creative Economy
ExtrArtis is an innovative co-regeneration project of the built environment that renovates lesser-known European Grand Tour venues through the Artist Residence practice. Since 2020, it improved the transdisciplinary cooperation at regional and local levels, triggering inter-generational scenarios of interconnection between people and places, activities and territories. ExtrArtis interprets art as a future-oriented engine of creativity for tangible and intangible built environment transformations
Italy
National
It addresses urban-rural linkages
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
Yes
2022-05-15
No
No
No
As a representative of an organisation
ExtrArtis is a creative and transdisciplinary project that drives the sustainable regeneration of the Italian built environment, renovating and reactivating lesser-known Grand Tour venues through the practice of Artist Residence in the beautiful but fragile Southern coastal cities. Starting from Sorrento, Capri and Amalfi Coast, ExtrArtis improves people’s life in the longer term by introducing an innovative creative-based model that combines sustainability, social inclusion, and art to give a cultural dimension to the Green Deal.
The ExtrArtis overall aim is to co-create and disseminate sustainable multi-engagement innovations to renovate a sense of belonging, using art as a future-oriented engine for the tangible and intangible transformations of the built environment in which it intervenes, facing the gentrification and touristification challenges.
ExtrArtis involves Local Community, Multi-level Governance institutions, Researchers and Academics, Future Generation, Artists, and Local Creative Enterprises in its specific objectives (SO): Renovating a sense of belonging, enhancing people's cohesion through the self-autopoietic and regenerative capacity of art to stimulate synergies into a circular symbiosis (SO1); Establishing intergenerational and transdisciplinary communities through collaborative green transition of built environment, with its recognizable aesthetic to match style with sustainability (SO2); Contributing to deepening cultural Europeanisation through scientific and educational activities in improving the value conditions for a cooperation at different levels (SO3). Since 2020, ExtrArtis has achieved the following outcomes (AO): Trigs innovative and inter-generational scenarios of interconnection among people, places, activities and territories (AO1); Reactivates local crafts economy, innovating rooted traditions on international scale (AO2); Activates a people-centric built environment transition by testing innovative creative-based model (AO3).
The ExtrArtis overall aim is to co-create and disseminate sustainable multi-engagement innovations to renovate a sense of belonging, using art as a future-oriented engine for the tangible and intangible transformations of the built environment in which it intervenes, facing the gentrification and touristification challenges.
ExtrArtis involves Local Community, Multi-level Governance institutions, Researchers and Academics, Future Generation, Artists, and Local Creative Enterprises in its specific objectives (SO): Renovating a sense of belonging, enhancing people's cohesion through the self-autopoietic and regenerative capacity of art to stimulate synergies into a circular symbiosis (SO1); Establishing intergenerational and transdisciplinary communities through collaborative green transition of built environment, with its recognizable aesthetic to match style with sustainability (SO2); Contributing to deepening cultural Europeanisation through scientific and educational activities in improving the value conditions for a cooperation at different levels (SO3). Since 2020, ExtrArtis has achieved the following outcomes (AO): Trigs innovative and inter-generational scenarios of interconnection among people, places, activities and territories (AO1); Reactivates local crafts economy, innovating rooted traditions on international scale (AO2); Activates a people-centric built environment transition by testing innovative creative-based model (AO3).
Artistic-led renovation
Heritage community' sense of belonging restoration
People-centric sustainable built environment regeneration
Cultural, economic, environmental and social qualities enhancement
Artists Residencies for Creative Economy
ExtrArtis Key Objectives (KO) are:
KO1 - Advancement of circular renovation of built environment. ExtrArtis reactivates degraded, underutilized, or less-known buildings with cultural value, interpreting them as a resource to rehabilitate rather than a waste. Considering the building waste disposal sector as one of the most impactful in Europe, the ExtrArtis approach mitigates this affection on the built environment, recognizing the above building typologies as an economy's resources whose consumption could also represent the loss of non-renewable primary ones. ExtrArtis introduces this climate-conscious methodology that reduces GHG emissions and addresses the decarbonization transition challenge.
KO2 - Promotion of life cycle thinking to balance between preservation and regeneration of the built environment. ExtrArtis increases the awareness of the population on sustainable topic, organizing eco-design participatory workshops where local communities and institutions can learn how to mutually support the process of cultural heritage regeneration. The ExtrArtis participatory process plays an essential role in supporting structural behavioral changes, extracting and enhancing the “intangible” values of heritage. This improves the extension of the life cycle of cultural heritage, ensuring its functional efficiency over time.
KO3 - Prevention of biodiversity loss, emphasizing the importance of local habitat. ExtrArtis settles down to the future generation the rooted characteristic of the territory, making the artist's creative production a new way of integrating old values into modern vision. With transdisciplinary sessions in natural and historical local specific site, ExtrArtis improves the stakeholders responsibilities and lets them be aware of the co-evolutionary dynamics that for centuries have bound communities and places together in order to counter the disruptive and, often uncontrolled, pressures that alter the natural habitat.
KO1 - Advancement of circular renovation of built environment. ExtrArtis reactivates degraded, underutilized, or less-known buildings with cultural value, interpreting them as a resource to rehabilitate rather than a waste. Considering the building waste disposal sector as one of the most impactful in Europe, the ExtrArtis approach mitigates this affection on the built environment, recognizing the above building typologies as an economy's resources whose consumption could also represent the loss of non-renewable primary ones. ExtrArtis introduces this climate-conscious methodology that reduces GHG emissions and addresses the decarbonization transition challenge.
KO2 - Promotion of life cycle thinking to balance between preservation and regeneration of the built environment. ExtrArtis increases the awareness of the population on sustainable topic, organizing eco-design participatory workshops where local communities and institutions can learn how to mutually support the process of cultural heritage regeneration. The ExtrArtis participatory process plays an essential role in supporting structural behavioral changes, extracting and enhancing the “intangible” values of heritage. This improves the extension of the life cycle of cultural heritage, ensuring its functional efficiency over time.
KO3 - Prevention of biodiversity loss, emphasizing the importance of local habitat. ExtrArtis settles down to the future generation the rooted characteristic of the territory, making the artist's creative production a new way of integrating old values into modern vision. With transdisciplinary sessions in natural and historical local specific site, ExtrArtis improves the stakeholders responsibilities and lets them be aware of the co-evolutionary dynamics that for centuries have bound communities and places together in order to counter the disruptive and, often uncontrolled, pressures that alter the natural habitat.
ExtrArtis Key Objectives (KO) are:
KO4 - Support of the connection to quality of the built environment. ExtrArtis reactivates Grand Tour venues as the cultural fulcrum of the evolution of European thought, increasing the quality of the built environment from bottom-up shared care actions. ExtrArtis enables communities to rediscover places emblematic of their identity, the first garrisons of their material and immaterial qualities sedimented over time. They become centers of creative production in which to increase education for sustainability and custodianship of the beauty of lesser-known identity places. The artist's sensibility and creative vision awaken the community's need for encounter and cooperation through the artist's sharing of their memories and rituals to mend the traces of a relationship with the built environment.
KO5 - Foster the sense of belonging through creative experience. ExtrArtis represents the entry point for the production of interpersonal values among communities, promoting processes of enhancing the collective dimension and the sharing of responsibilities in dialogue with the artwork. Through ExtrArtis it is possible to determine a condition of balance between the fragile pre-existing order and the values shared by citizens, who by co-creating artistic legacies project their own identity system of values onto the built environment.
KO6 - Improvement of the local aesthetic integrating new enduring cultural value. ExtrArtis extends the enjoyment of civic aesthetics beyond personal enjoyment to an interpersonal and community dimension. ExtrArtis raises civic awareness of beauty by promoting the aesthetic dimension of the built environment as generating an “attractive force field” for people and activities. ExtrArtis demonstrates that the aesthetic, economic and social dimensions are interconnected by a circular process that tends to feed itself over time, manifesting new shared values.
KO4 - Support of the connection to quality of the built environment. ExtrArtis reactivates Grand Tour venues as the cultural fulcrum of the evolution of European thought, increasing the quality of the built environment from bottom-up shared care actions. ExtrArtis enables communities to rediscover places emblematic of their identity, the first garrisons of their material and immaterial qualities sedimented over time. They become centers of creative production in which to increase education for sustainability and custodianship of the beauty of lesser-known identity places. The artist's sensibility and creative vision awaken the community's need for encounter and cooperation through the artist's sharing of their memories and rituals to mend the traces of a relationship with the built environment.
KO5 - Foster the sense of belonging through creative experience. ExtrArtis represents the entry point for the production of interpersonal values among communities, promoting processes of enhancing the collective dimension and the sharing of responsibilities in dialogue with the artwork. Through ExtrArtis it is possible to determine a condition of balance between the fragile pre-existing order and the values shared by citizens, who by co-creating artistic legacies project their own identity system of values onto the built environment.
KO6 - Improvement of the local aesthetic integrating new enduring cultural value. ExtrArtis extends the enjoyment of civic aesthetics beyond personal enjoyment to an interpersonal and community dimension. ExtrArtis raises civic awareness of beauty by promoting the aesthetic dimension of the built environment as generating an “attractive force field” for people and activities. ExtrArtis demonstrates that the aesthetic, economic and social dimensions are interconnected by a circular process that tends to feed itself over time, manifesting new shared values.
ExtrArtis Key Objectives (KO) are:
KO7 - Promotion of a European inclusive governance. ExtrArtis identifies the built environment as a laboratory to foster new prosperity and inclusiveness concerning the inseparability between places and the communities that belong to them. ExtrArtis supports local governance by including all target groups without discrimination and celebrating diversity in all dimensions. ExtrArtis promotes (i) material culture as the product of the creative action that a community imprints on available resources through the involvement of the artist; (ii) immaterial culture as value derived from such operations and which in turn produces materiality that improves flexible and inclusive adaptability of contexts.
KO8 - Celebration of the uniqueness of “genius loci”. ExtrArtis acts both on physical space and community identity values, whereby memory and adaptability become the two levers for rebalancing development. The processes of degradation and social marginalization of cities originate forms of disaffection by the users of the built environment. ExtrArtis organizes accessible, affordable, and free cultural events inspired by the genius loci, demonstrating that the built environment is an attractive, inclusive, and sustainable connective tissue for our communities. In transmitting identity memory, built environment is returned to communities as conduit of values of narrative of global and local history.
KO9 - Settlement of local crafts to new generations. ExtrArtis activates interactive workshops with artists, craftsmen, and citizens as intergenerational exchanges related to social interaction and cultural production of innovative meaning. ExtrArtis supports the idea that tradition is both what has been received and what must be guaranteed for future generations. ExtrArtis acts on built environment as generator of renovation places that bear witness to the abilities and skills that communities have accrued over time, avoiding being forgotten.
KO7 - Promotion of a European inclusive governance. ExtrArtis identifies the built environment as a laboratory to foster new prosperity and inclusiveness concerning the inseparability between places and the communities that belong to them. ExtrArtis supports local governance by including all target groups without discrimination and celebrating diversity in all dimensions. ExtrArtis promotes (i) material culture as the product of the creative action that a community imprints on available resources through the involvement of the artist; (ii) immaterial culture as value derived from such operations and which in turn produces materiality that improves flexible and inclusive adaptability of contexts.
KO8 - Celebration of the uniqueness of “genius loci”. ExtrArtis acts both on physical space and community identity values, whereby memory and adaptability become the two levers for rebalancing development. The processes of degradation and social marginalization of cities originate forms of disaffection by the users of the built environment. ExtrArtis organizes accessible, affordable, and free cultural events inspired by the genius loci, demonstrating that the built environment is an attractive, inclusive, and sustainable connective tissue for our communities. In transmitting identity memory, built environment is returned to communities as conduit of values of narrative of global and local history.
KO9 - Settlement of local crafts to new generations. ExtrArtis activates interactive workshops with artists, craftsmen, and citizens as intergenerational exchanges related to social interaction and cultural production of innovative meaning. ExtrArtis supports the idea that tradition is both what has been received and what must be guaranteed for future generations. ExtrArtis acts on built environment as generator of renovation places that bear witness to the abilities and skills that communities have accrued over time, avoiding being forgotten.
ExtrArtis fosters processes of participation and multiplication of ties in fragmented local communities (as citizens and/or aggregated association form) with the places they inhabit, enabling them to rediscover their role as repositories of collective memory. This prolongs the cohesion of citizens with architecture to benefit the territory and its stakeholders. In Italy, most lesser-known but identity-established buildings are privately owned and inaccessible to the public. ExtrArtis allows their use to be extended to the local community, which recognizes part of the values of its established cultural identity and, at the same time, lets the property grow in value and cultural significance.
Involvement occurs through consultation tables, structured participatory approaches supported by university science experts, workshops for co-creating shared know-how, guided tours to rooted interest areas, and exhibition and educational events aimed at rediscovering local architectural identity for residents. The citizens involvement through artistic-led development ensures a transdisciplinary approach and a multi-level engagement, both vertically and horizontally, improving the quality of life not only for the local community , but also for future generations. This, in turn, influences the state and maintenance of the built environment, triggering circular self-sustainable processes that favor and encourage the development of local production.
ExtrArtis involves citizens in all of its phases (from co-design to co-validation) in the role of: (i) medium to convey values bi-directionally from researchers/innovators and local communities; and (ii) katalysators to generate coherence, participation and identity in promoted solutions. The artwork circulation improves the engagement process on a territorial scale, creating a cultural network in which they jointly benefit, accelerating sustainability while boosting local transitions.
Involvement occurs through consultation tables, structured participatory approaches supported by university science experts, workshops for co-creating shared know-how, guided tours to rooted interest areas, and exhibition and educational events aimed at rediscovering local architectural identity for residents. The citizens involvement through artistic-led development ensures a transdisciplinary approach and a multi-level engagement, both vertically and horizontally, improving the quality of life not only for the local community , but also for future generations. This, in turn, influences the state and maintenance of the built environment, triggering circular self-sustainable processes that favor and encourage the development of local production.
ExtrArtis involves citizens in all of its phases (from co-design to co-validation) in the role of: (i) medium to convey values bi-directionally from researchers/innovators and local communities; and (ii) katalysators to generate coherence, participation and identity in promoted solutions. The artwork circulation improves the engagement process on a territorial scale, creating a cultural network in which they jointly benefit, accelerating sustainability while boosting local transitions.
ExtrArtis stakeholders are Artists; Multi-level governance institutions; Creative Enterprises; Researchers and Academics; Local community (discussed above). They generate simultaneous local individual improvement (i); built environment improvements in Cultural (ii); Economic (iii); Social (iv); Environmental (v) and Technological (vi) dimensions; and EU improvements (vii).
Artists experiment (i) new creative forms contaminated with local values (ii) during the interaction with stakeholders (iii), reactivating skills (iv) from inclusion into a network of belonging. They (v) meet community needs and institutional requirements (vi) working on adaptation of local performance, (vii) creating a bridging experience between material culture and the instances of time.
Multi-level governance institutions experiment (i) the built environment as a creative place where (ii) cross-cultural bonding increases acceptance of cultural diversity, converting (iii) the quality of cultural tourism attractions as a local key investment, (iv) improving policies (v) to differentiate the forms of social growth and (vi) local investment (vii) in an international system of holistic opportunities.
Creative enterprises experiment (i) the artistic growth agenda in (ii) multi-actor and cross-scale public-private advancement, developing (iii) a network of culture, flows, values, and knowledge in (iv) compliance with (v) economic attractiveness of new forms of national investment and profit for locals (vi) through cross-cultural negotiation, (vii) supporting context-aware and community-based economic models of territorial development.
Researchers and Academics experiment (i) the scientific approaches to (ii) support stakeholders' collaboration (iii) in networks of participation (iv) to develop shared skills (v) in compliance with the (vi) expected performance of built environment regeneration, determining (vii) community self-actualization to recognize themselves as part of built environment.
Artists experiment (i) new creative forms contaminated with local values (ii) during the interaction with stakeholders (iii), reactivating skills (iv) from inclusion into a network of belonging. They (v) meet community needs and institutional requirements (vi) working on adaptation of local performance, (vii) creating a bridging experience between material culture and the instances of time.
Multi-level governance institutions experiment (i) the built environment as a creative place where (ii) cross-cultural bonding increases acceptance of cultural diversity, converting (iii) the quality of cultural tourism attractions as a local key investment, (iv) improving policies (v) to differentiate the forms of social growth and (vi) local investment (vii) in an international system of holistic opportunities.
Creative enterprises experiment (i) the artistic growth agenda in (ii) multi-actor and cross-scale public-private advancement, developing (iii) a network of culture, flows, values, and knowledge in (iv) compliance with (v) economic attractiveness of new forms of national investment and profit for locals (vi) through cross-cultural negotiation, (vii) supporting context-aware and community-based economic models of territorial development.
Researchers and Academics experiment (i) the scientific approaches to (ii) support stakeholders' collaboration (iii) in networks of participation (iv) to develop shared skills (v) in compliance with the (vi) expected performance of built environment regeneration, determining (vii) community self-actualization to recognize themselves as part of built environment.
ExtrArtis is based on transdisciplinary interaction among EU knowledge fields of Art, Social Science and Humanities, Sociology of Environment and Territory, Administrative and Public Law, Urban and Landscape Planning, Real Estate Appraisal and Project Evaluation, Technological and Environmental Design of Architecture, Architectural Design and Architectural Conservation. ExtrArtis represents a successful common ground for city making and social innovation in the creative sector based on the hybrid exchange among different scale institutions, including Universities, local authorities, policymakers, SMEs, and civil organizations. The interaction between the representatives of these fields was crucial in realizing an innovative creative-based model pioneered by the project in adopting mixed methods for transfer and validating it at the cross-scale level. The collaboration between the scientific groups - who determine the advancement of knowledge - and the technical professionals group - who choose the real-life transformations, returns evidence of ExtrArtis real-life virtuous impacts in built environment regeneration. This lets ExtrArtis achieve ambitious objectives, covering the wide-ranging scope of the New European Bauhaus Prizes 2025 and combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies into the space-time dimension. ExtrArtis recognizes the crucial role: of the first three fields, for fostering a people-centric sustainable built environment as socially acceptable, culturally sensitive, and economically beneficial for local and regional communities; of the second three fields, for conducting targeted and synchronically/diachronically evaluation of needs, requirements and expected performance in relation to multiple ExtrArtis outcomes; of the last three fields, for ensuring broad-based support to characterise how the ExtrArtis replication over time improve the quality levels of the built environment in which it intervenes.
The innovation of ExtrArtis stands out for (i) strategic process, (ii) practice, and (iii) model by their combination:
(i) Inclusive and sustainable transition of the future. ExtrArtis rethinks the built environment by looking at the creative process as a paradigm of post-pandemic urban change, in which the integration of art with sustainability concepts goes beyond the traditional physical built environment transformation. The lesser-known Grand Tour venues accessibility allows the community to be connected with its values, while simultaneously increasing the shared care of surroundings, the property's value, and the quality of the tourism offering, addressing the challenges of gentrification and touristification of Sorrento, Capri, and Amalfi Coast.
(ii) Creative regeneration network. ExtrArtis re-connects the built environment identity to the values and skills of its territory, integrating human and cultural capital by artistic flows, capable of regenerating both market and environmental conditions. Stakeholders are encouraged to be connected, becoming aware of the contexts' adaptability as custodians of collective memory. This fosters a network of co-creators who develop innovative, place-based solutions for inclusive development through a sustainable and circular creative process. This approach allows stakeholders to move beyond a short-term perspective, becoming co-creators of the uniqueness of the genius loci, including its culture, art, tradition, folklore, productivity, spirituality, attention to nature, communities, and cultural diversity.
(iii) Innovative and creative model. ExtrArtis anchors the artistic activity to relevant EU initiatives in the academic, business, and institutional realms to replicate the experiment collaborative innovation from Sorrento, Capri and Amalfi Coast deprived remote, peripheral, or deindustrialized areas as well as their over-exploited ones, to cross-scale level, creating an EU self-sustainable ecosystem.
(i) Inclusive and sustainable transition of the future. ExtrArtis rethinks the built environment by looking at the creative process as a paradigm of post-pandemic urban change, in which the integration of art with sustainability concepts goes beyond the traditional physical built environment transformation. The lesser-known Grand Tour venues accessibility allows the community to be connected with its values, while simultaneously increasing the shared care of surroundings, the property's value, and the quality of the tourism offering, addressing the challenges of gentrification and touristification of Sorrento, Capri, and Amalfi Coast.
(ii) Creative regeneration network. ExtrArtis re-connects the built environment identity to the values and skills of its territory, integrating human and cultural capital by artistic flows, capable of regenerating both market and environmental conditions. Stakeholders are encouraged to be connected, becoming aware of the contexts' adaptability as custodians of collective memory. This fosters a network of co-creators who develop innovative, place-based solutions for inclusive development through a sustainable and circular creative process. This approach allows stakeholders to move beyond a short-term perspective, becoming co-creators of the uniqueness of the genius loci, including its culture, art, tradition, folklore, productivity, spirituality, attention to nature, communities, and cultural diversity.
(iii) Innovative and creative model. ExtrArtis anchors the artistic activity to relevant EU initiatives in the academic, business, and institutional realms to replicate the experiment collaborative innovation from Sorrento, Capri and Amalfi Coast deprived remote, peripheral, or deindustrialized areas as well as their over-exploited ones, to cross-scale level, creating an EU self-sustainable ecosystem.
The methodology assumes that creativity and culture are the new engines of the built environment regeneration based on a qualitative vision of transformations, generating value through artistic approaches and mitigating the dynamics of gentrification and touristification in contemporary cities. The innovativeness lies in reinterpreting the key role of art by transforming the built environment into a self-sustainable system, according to a human-centered approach.
The methodology follows four main iterative, circular, and incremental phases, in which the process input refines itself with the ExtrArtis know-how to re-enter as output within the process to improve it.
Phase 1_Knowledge, analysis of the site's identity for the drafting of a call for the selection of 12 emerging artists who will link their production to the identity and values of the region, allowing them to enrich their profile through an educational experience for their career.
Phase 2_Experimentation, selection of the artists involved as re-activators of the Grand Tour venues through the practice of Artist Residency at Villa La Rupe in Sorrento for the production of works inspired by the genius loci.
Phase 3_Involvement, participation in experimentation through a transdisciplinary interaction between artists, communities, local associations, craft men, and institutions through consultation tables, participatory approaches structured with the support of university experts, workshops, guided tours of the territory, exhibition and educational events aimed at the rediscovery of architectural and landscape identity and sense of belonging of local residents;
Phase 4_Dissemination of results, scientific dissemination, international conferences, and temporary exhibitions via the project's digital web and social platforms and at a municipal site open and accessible to the public, enjoying the organizational support of international partners and university institutions.
The methodology follows four main iterative, circular, and incremental phases, in which the process input refines itself with the ExtrArtis know-how to re-enter as output within the process to improve it.
Phase 1_Knowledge, analysis of the site's identity for the drafting of a call for the selection of 12 emerging artists who will link their production to the identity and values of the region, allowing them to enrich their profile through an educational experience for their career.
Phase 2_Experimentation, selection of the artists involved as re-activators of the Grand Tour venues through the practice of Artist Residency at Villa La Rupe in Sorrento for the production of works inspired by the genius loci.
Phase 3_Involvement, participation in experimentation through a transdisciplinary interaction between artists, communities, local associations, craft men, and institutions through consultation tables, participatory approaches structured with the support of university experts, workshops, guided tours of the territory, exhibition and educational events aimed at the rediscovery of architectural and landscape identity and sense of belonging of local residents;
Phase 4_Dissemination of results, scientific dissemination, international conferences, and temporary exhibitions via the project's digital web and social platforms and at a municipal site open and accessible to the public, enjoying the organizational support of international partners and university institutions.
ExtrArtis project can be replicated and transferred both to territories that do not have historicized tourism and to those that, while having a strong tourism tradition, can, in this way, cultivate new horizons, in terms of:
(i) validated learnings_ ExtrArtis opens to the communities awareness of a common built cultural heritage, usually accessible to the public, but which becomes so through the sharing of the artistic experience; on the other hand, it enables public administrations to improve the quality of tourism by participating in the creative process.
(ii) products circulation_ ExtrArtis artworks, created by the artist during the project, activate a process on a territorial scale and, through circulation, can make an economic-cultural network that benefits artists, entrepreneurs, and communities. This determines a strategy with a positive impact on social cohesion, stimulating qualitative and sustainable tourist offers.
(iii) network methodology_ ExtrArtis generates a territorial network of residencies, increasing the quality of their built environment through artworks that enhance economic and cultural wealth by generating widespread value in the area where it operates. Cultural quality improves by associating the tourism market with an artistic reality attentive to the specificities of the territory. Using the transversal strength of the creative tool to activate large-scale economic connections, ExtrArtis establishes nodes of the network in the venues in which it is replicated.
(iv) connection process_ ExtrArtis connects the poles (renovated venues) by the flow of artists and guests that its replication enables. These networks of relationships are enriched by multi-actor collaborations that aim to increase the local community's awareness and knowledge of artistic capital.
All these aspects trigger benefits for individuals and communities, increasing the quality of tourism and consolidating the material culture of the place.
(i) validated learnings_ ExtrArtis opens to the communities awareness of a common built cultural heritage, usually accessible to the public, but which becomes so through the sharing of the artistic experience; on the other hand, it enables public administrations to improve the quality of tourism by participating in the creative process.
(ii) products circulation_ ExtrArtis artworks, created by the artist during the project, activate a process on a territorial scale and, through circulation, can make an economic-cultural network that benefits artists, entrepreneurs, and communities. This determines a strategy with a positive impact on social cohesion, stimulating qualitative and sustainable tourist offers.
(iii) network methodology_ ExtrArtis generates a territorial network of residencies, increasing the quality of their built environment through artworks that enhance economic and cultural wealth by generating widespread value in the area where it operates. Cultural quality improves by associating the tourism market with an artistic reality attentive to the specificities of the territory. Using the transversal strength of the creative tool to activate large-scale economic connections, ExtrArtis establishes nodes of the network in the venues in which it is replicated.
(iv) connection process_ ExtrArtis connects the poles (renovated venues) by the flow of artists and guests that its replication enables. These networks of relationships are enriched by multi-actor collaborations that aim to increase the local community's awareness and knowledge of artistic capital.
All these aspects trigger benefits for individuals and communities, increasing the quality of tourism and consolidating the material culture of the place.
Providing local solutions, ExtrArtis offers innovative responses to different global challenges.
(i) To mitigate climate change, ExtrArtis supports the renovation of the built environment rather than the new construction, recovering the underutilized building into resources to guarantee inclusive urban growth, social cohesion, and inclusivity while respecting dynamic characters and functional diversity.
(ii) To support the green transition, ExtrArtis prospects creative regeneration linking social change to creating safe and dialoguing settlement systems. ExtrArtis uses the Artist Residence practice to improve the management and maintenance processes of the built environment, establishing collaboration agreements between citizens and stakeholders in the territory.
(iii) To address NEB principles simultaneously, ExtrArtis acts on the distribution of values and flows, catalyzing the links from the local to the global, building a bridge between the identity of the host community and the culture of the origin artist's country. This openness allows a broad spectrum of activities, spaces, and resources that can be experimented collectively between communities and actors over time.
(iv) To simplify the diversity and complexity of relevant legislation and the length of administrative processes, ExtrArtis sets up close cooperation with national, regional, and local authorities by using Artist Residence as a method of collaboration and participation. The artworks and their impacts on the territory result from partnerships and transdisciplinary exchanges that affirms a learning and sharing lesson on rooted distinctiveness.
(v) To face demographic changes and aging democracies, ExtrArtis activates educational workshops, making the place a center of social innovation and meaning production. ExtrArtis allows both the transmission of local expertise and traditions to future generations, contributing to the collective empowerment of their identity at multi-level scales.
(i) To mitigate climate change, ExtrArtis supports the renovation of the built environment rather than the new construction, recovering the underutilized building into resources to guarantee inclusive urban growth, social cohesion, and inclusivity while respecting dynamic characters and functional diversity.
(ii) To support the green transition, ExtrArtis prospects creative regeneration linking social change to creating safe and dialoguing settlement systems. ExtrArtis uses the Artist Residence practice to improve the management and maintenance processes of the built environment, establishing collaboration agreements between citizens and stakeholders in the territory.
(iii) To address NEB principles simultaneously, ExtrArtis acts on the distribution of values and flows, catalyzing the links from the local to the global, building a bridge between the identity of the host community and the culture of the origin artist's country. This openness allows a broad spectrum of activities, spaces, and resources that can be experimented collectively between communities and actors over time.
(iv) To simplify the diversity and complexity of relevant legislation and the length of administrative processes, ExtrArtis sets up close cooperation with national, regional, and local authorities by using Artist Residence as a method of collaboration and participation. The artworks and their impacts on the territory result from partnerships and transdisciplinary exchanges that affirms a learning and sharing lesson on rooted distinctiveness.
(v) To face demographic changes and aging democracies, ExtrArtis activates educational workshops, making the place a center of social innovation and meaning production. ExtrArtis allows both the transmission of local expertise and traditions to future generations, contributing to the collective empowerment of their identity at multi-level scales.
ExtrArtis activities are all free, open to the public and aimed at building a sense of belonging to a common “genius loci”: exhibitions in Sorrento, Capri and Naples; international conferences; participatory approaches with local associations (Mitiche Stelle, Amiche del Museo Correale), institutions and citizens under the coordination of scientific figures (University of Naples Federico II); laboratory with the students of the RARO-directed High School “Francesco Grandi”; multimedia projections in collaboration and concession with the Archivio Luce; classical music concerts, reading Odyssey myth, traditional performances of “tarantella” dance. Guided tour to Mount San Costanzo, the Bay of Ieranto in the Marine Protected Area and local archaeological sites Villa di Pollio Felice; Lesson of inlayer studio - nominated UNESCO intangible asset. These activities have direct and indirect benefits for participants as scientific papers, journal and book testimony on ExtrArtis.
ExtrArtis 1st edition was supported by the Dep. of Architecture/University of Naples Federico II; 2nd by Art Days Napoli - Campania, sponsored by Campania Region, Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, and Museo Madre; 3rd by ReA Art Fair Milan, patronage by Fondazione Cariplo; The next by DOM Art Residence in Barcelona.
AWARDS:
2021 finalists of HORIZON 2020 CLIC STARTUP as one of the best “Circular Investment Models in Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage” existing in Europe.
2022 was selected by the GreenBlueDays and became a member of the Worldwide network of arts residencies (RES ARTIS).
2023 finalist of the ITWIIN AWARD, sponsored by the Prime Minister's Office of Italy for remarkable innovation in the STEAM sectors.
2024 was selected by AMACI Musei for the 20th Giornata del Contemporaneo opening, supported by Ministry of Contemporary Creativity and the Ministry of Italian Culture.
2025, awarded by Campania Region to promote the quality of Architecture by the Department of Land Government.
ExtrArtis 1st edition was supported by the Dep. of Architecture/University of Naples Federico II; 2nd by Art Days Napoli - Campania, sponsored by Campania Region, Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, and Museo Madre; 3rd by ReA Art Fair Milan, patronage by Fondazione Cariplo; The next by DOM Art Residence in Barcelona.
AWARDS:
2021 finalists of HORIZON 2020 CLIC STARTUP as one of the best “Circular Investment Models in Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage” existing in Europe.
2022 was selected by the GreenBlueDays and became a member of the Worldwide network of arts residencies (RES ARTIS).
2023 finalist of the ITWIIN AWARD, sponsored by the Prime Minister's Office of Italy for remarkable innovation in the STEAM sectors.
2024 was selected by AMACI Musei for the 20th Giornata del Contemporaneo opening, supported by Ministry of Contemporary Creativity and the Ministry of Italian Culture.
2025, awarded by Campania Region to promote the quality of Architecture by the Department of Land Government.
