On 7 July Atelier Riforma launched its first “reward-based” crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, setting € 8000 as the final goal. Less than a month after the launch, the amount raised is more than 5000 euros, about 64% of the final target.

Atelier Riforma is an innovative startup for social good, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry through circular economy principles and tailoring creativity.

For Atelier Riforma, second-hand clothes, which are no longer worn and would be thrown away, are a resource!

What do they do in practice? They collect used clothes from those who want to get rid of them and give them to their network of tailoring realities which, through a tailoring process of transformation (called “upcycling”), gives them a new value. Once transformed, the garments are sold by Atelier Riforma and can thus have a second life.

Atelier Riforma wants to represent all the people who look for environmentally friendly and ethical clothes.

The upcycling of used clothes is also a means to create job opportunities, growth and inclusion: in other words, they want their startup to connect, through the upcycling of used clothes, all the tailoring realities who want to commit themselves in the environmental protection and in building a more equal society.

The idea of ​​Atelier Riforma was born during CRT Foundation’s project “Talenti per l’Impresa”, an advanced training course aiming at training young people on entrepreneurship. After one year they turned a simple idea into a startup. They have collected over 1500 garments and created a network of nine realities, including designers, tailors, sustainable brands and social tailorings where people from conditions of fragility find a job. They have also established a partnership with two fashion schools so that students, tomorrow’s professionals, approach sustainable fashion and learn the art of upcycling. They also collaborate with two non-profit associations, donating them clothes that can be useful for people in social-economic difficulties.

A few weeks ago they started to sell their clothes on their e-commerce website, but they are just getting started!

They want to do more. They want to create a traceability system which guarantees transparency about the destination of the clothes people give them. At the same time, they want to allow those who buy to find out who made the tailoring work on the garment they purchased and understand their positive impact on the environment, generated by buying a reformed item.

To achieve all this, they need more human and financial resources: going on at the current rhythm, next year they will need at least two people dedicated to working on the traceability and measurement of environmental impact systems. In addition, an investment in digital labels and IT devices will be needed (they estimate an amount for the whole investment of 30.000 €).

These are ambitious goals, so they decided to proceed step by step and to ask the people who believe in their values to support them.

With this campaign, they aim to reach the goal of 8.000 euro, which will enable them to start investing in the traceability system. Thanks to your support, they will give the opportunity to people who donated them their clothes to find out their destination by entering a code on Atelier Riforma’s website.

If you want to help them to take this first step, take part in this campaign!

As a reward for your donation, based on your contribution, you will receive one of these products in preview:

• a bracelet realized from old t-shirts by the tailors of our network:
• a pochette made from recycled jeans and wax fabric by our social tailoring “Il Filo d’Alga”
• a backpack realized from recycled jeans and wax fabric by the social tailoring “Il Filo d’Alga”
• a multicolor t-shirt made from second-hand shirts by the social tailoring “Il Gelso”
• a sweater of regenerated yarn realized by our knitter Sonia Oberto.

If you embrace Atelier Riforma’s mission, but you do not have the possibility to donate, you can still help them by sharing this campaign with your contacts! Every small action is important.

P.S. by choosing to receive these products derived from the upcycling of old clothing, you are already contributing to making fashion a bit more sustainable!

The second selection of the 2019 edition of the Seed Social Enterprises, Efficiency&Development of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation has been completed.

The aim of the call is to help Piedmontese social enterprises with greater potential to design and implement a process of development and transformation, efficiency and innovation. The first selection of the call for proposals allowed fifty social enterprises to design their own development plan, and then to be examined by a Commission composed of referees with different competence profiles, in order to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the proposals that the call for proposals intends to solicit.
Now the Turin philanthropic foundation will support the twenty social enterprises that passed the second selection, with a total investment of €500,000. The list of selected companies can be consulted here.

In a scenario characterized by growing inequalities, social enterprise and the third sector play a decisive role in Italy and internationally in the production of goods and services that generate forms of inclusion, value and wealth ,and respond to complex social problems. Seed_Social Enterprises, Efficiency & Development is an action of capacity building, management training and acceleration aimed at social enterprises operating in Piedmont, to help those with potential to design and implement a process of development and transformation, efficiency and innovation and at the same time promote, in such a delicate phase, a design-oriented to resistance, resilience and restart.

The objective of the 2019 edition of the Seed call for proposals is to support social enterprises to design and implement their own development plan, with the aim of moving towards real sustainability at market conditions, also becoming attractive for private capital. The company is accompanied towards high level skills usually not easily accessible for the third sector, such as those towards digital transformation.

The Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation attracts, coordinates and directs these skills, strengthening the entire ecosystem of innovation for the common good.

In the last two years PerMicro, the main microfinance operator in Italy, has continued to collaborate with the Tiresia Centre of the Polytechnic of Milan to publish a new research on the social impact generated by its loans to subjects excluded from the traditional credit channels: the latest edition of the research includes the impact calculated over a 10-year period, from 2009 to 2018.

On Tuesday 28 July h 17.00, there will be a webinar presenting the results of the research in collaboration with the Tiresia Centre and Professor Mario Calderini.

To participate in the webinar, simply connect to the appointment by clicking on this link:

Connect to this link on the day and time scheduled for the event.

Meeting ID: 912 3389 6561
Passcode: 423792

Thursday, September 10th at 6.00 p.m. appointment at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation to start the crowdfunding campaigns of Bottom Up!, the architecture festival promoted by the Order of Architects of Turin and the Architecture Foundation of Turin.

During the evening the 14 fundraising campaigns will be launched simultaneously to finance the 14 protagonists of Bottom Up!, each one promoting a specific urban transformation project from below, 12 on Turin and 2 on Milan.

Then begins the real action phase of the festival, during which all citizens (and not only) will be called to contribute to the realization of the project or projects they feel closest to.

After the summer break we will give you more precise details about the programme of the evening. In the meantime, however, you can already go ahead in two ways:

• by marking on your agenda the evening of Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 18.00 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, via Modane 16, Turin
• go to the festival website to find out what the 14 transformation projects are and start following them!

Follow Bottom Up! on Facebook and Instagram.

On 29 September the new advanced training course promoted by the Architecture Foundation of Turin and curated by Mali Weil will begin, during which the entire urban structure will be reinterpreted as a wooded space. Among the guests, also the architects Stefano Boeri and Paulo Tavares. The early bird expires on 8 September.

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From 29 September to 16 October, the “Forestare” advanced training course promoted by the Architecture Foundation of Turin and curated by Mali Weil, an artistic platform based in Trento, will be held. At the center, a reflection on the concept of “forestare” or “making forests” an act that allows to develop a new imagery about the city and the way of living in it, reinterpreting the entire urban structure as a space-forest. It will be divided into 5 modules of 2 hours each: registrations expire on September 25th but the early bird fee is available only until September 8th: register now!

The emergency of Covid-19 has determined a new attention to nature and a rediscovery of the individual and collective relationship with it; a change that will have a strong impact on the future of cities, on the way they are inhabited and designed. The forest thus becomes the key element for rethinking not only living but all spaces of citizenship.
On the basis of these considerations, an advanced training program is divided into 5 webinar modules for professionals in the world of architecture, urban planning and landscape to reinterpret urban space not only from the point of view of greenery or urban forestry but as a space-forest, a space that is built and characterized according to its relationship with the other.

But what is the forest? The Brazilian architect Paulo Tavares, one of the teachers of the course, in reflecting on the exploitation of the Amazonian forest using legal categories and a forensic language, overturns the imaginary of the forest, equating it with the city’s own dimension. While the vision of “forest city” proposed by Stefano Boeri refers to a completely new urbanistic model, based on small, compact and green cities, energetically autonomous and with a vertical development that limits the consumption of agricultural land and with a strong presence of natural elements.
And precisely on this challenge of definition that accompanies the word “forest”, within the course are inserted the vision and contribution of landscape architects, philosophers, jurists, epistemologists to complete the overall picture:

• Mauro Agnoletti, Professor of Agricultural and Forestry Systems Planning and Environmental History at the School of Agriculture University of Florence, National Observatory for Rural Landscapes Ministry of Agriculture and President of the Landscape Laboratory Tuscany Region
• Andrea Cassi, architect partner Carlo Ratti Associati
• Emanuele Coccia, philosopher, Maitre de conférences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris)
• Vinciane Despret, philosopher of science, University of Liège (tbc)
• Michele Spanò, Professor of Theory of Private Law at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris
• in addition to the already mentioned Stefano Boeri and Paulo Tavares, architect, Faculdade de Arquitetura and Urbanism of the University of Brasilia.

The botanical aspect therefore dialogues with disciplines such as biology, law, ecology, philosophy and contemporary art in order to promote a reflection in the architectural field and identify design effects: in other words, the aim is to “make the forest” concretely and in the practice of those who daily think and design cities and their landscapes. At the end of the course, the last module will see the participants as protagonists of a confrontation/debate with the speakers on their original proposal.
Forestare was born from the collaboration between the Architecture Foundation of Turin and Mali Weil, creator of the Forests project.

• Go to the full program and subscribe to the Forestare high training course

WHAT IS FORESTS?

Forests is an artistic and research project conceived and coordinated by Mali Weil, which is articulated through different media and in multiple episodes, with the aim of rethinking the notions of cities and citizenship starting from the legal, social and narrative nature of the forest. To date, Forests, which began in 2018, includes a series of performances, a film, editorial interventions and a nomadic and temporary open school conceived as a platform for discussion and in-depth study of the conceptual, aesthetic and political guidelines born from the project. The Master curated for Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino is part of this series of activities.

Forests is conceived, developed and co-produced by Mali Weil, supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo through the Ora! Productions of Contemporary Culture and coordinated by Centrale Fies. The Architecture Foundation of Turin is a partner in the project.

WHO’S MAIL WEIL?

Mali Weil is an artistic platform formed by Elisa Di Liberato, Lorenzo Facchinelli and Mara Ferrieri, based in Trento. Since 2012 she has been developing a research that investigates the potential of performance as an engine of creation and a space for spreading political imagination. Her production ranges from performance to product design, from editorial products to audiovisual formats. Since 2013 he has been the creative director of the art-based brand Animal Spirits for which he has created several lines, product performance, held workshops in universities and academies in Italy and abroad. Mali Weil also collaborates permanently with Fies Core, the cultural incubator of Centrale Fies, as founder and project developer and associate artist of Centrale Fies.

Important updates from Homes4All the project of impact finance to face the housing emergency in Torino promoted by the City of Torino together with the Chamber of Commerce of Torino, Brainscapital, Homers, ACMOS, within Torino Social Impact.

Homes4All was born to solve a problem: the pathways of poverty very often start from the loss of one’s own home. It doesn’t matter if this happens due to personal or entrepreneurial events, but from the loss of the house onward the gravity of any previous situation increases to the point that it becomes hardly reversible, with very high costs for people, families and the whole community.

Homes4All promotes an innovative housing strategy through the identification of property blocks, free or occupied, of different origins (court auctions, vacant housing, donations) to be entrusted to the management of a newco/startup. The company proceeds, in case of empty housing, to renovate, enhance or make available to the social rental channels and, in case of occupied housing, to support tenants in case of debt situations.

From today is online the pre-campaign of equity crowdfunding LITA realised by the innovative newco/startup with the same name of the project. The startup has the great advantage of having management and operating costs of the first 3 years covered by the contribution, paid in favor of the project, by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.  This allows the startup to use and allocate the funds collected through the Equity Crowdfunding campaign exclusively to the acquisition of real estate

Read more about the project and discover socially responsible crowdfunding.

The international impact events canceled due to the pandemic were reconfirmed in Turin in 2021 and a calendar is being recomposed that confirms the centrality of the Turin ecosystem in the impact economy.

First of all, the GSG For Impact Investing Leadership Meeting, whose 2020 edition was scheduled to take place in Turin in virtual mode, was confirmed from 5 to 8 May 2021 in our city. The GSG is undoubtedly the leading international network dedicated to impact investing, it is an independent global organization that brings together leaders from the world of finance, business, and philanthropy. Dedicated to boosting impact investments, which today represent just 1% of the capital allocated globally, GSG analyzes, promotes, and discusses the tools that can return social and environmental results together with financial returns, business models that can profitably pursue a double result. The debate also focuses on the definition of global policies that promote the diffusion of investments that bring together private and public capital with social entrepreneurship and non-profit organizations in order to bring about significant social change.

On the other hand, the Ashoka Europe Changemaker Summit will take place in November 2021, at the end of a path dedicated to social innovators that will start already in the 2020 edition that will take place online in the autumn with the collaboration of Torino Social Impact. Ashoka is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs for social innovation. Ashoka is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to be an agent of change in the world (Everyone a changemaker) and the aim of Ashoka is not only to maximize social impact but also to create transversal alliances capable of changing entire systems. This is why for over 35 years she has been selecting, networking, and training more than 3500 social entrepreneurs active in different sectors and in different parts of the world. In Italy Ashoka has been active since 2014.

Finally, the annual Iris Network event. Also, this event was canceled in 2020 and is reconfirmed in 2021 in Turin in spring. Iris is the network of social enterprise research institutes and its annual scientific colloquium is a key event in the national and international debate on third sector companies and their evolution.

Wide-ranging cooperation over the next three years between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the City of Turin for the implementation of projects combating climate change. That is the aim of the framework agreement signed between the bank of the European Union and the capital of Piedmont, an agreement that marks the launch of an operating phase based on potential investment financing operations, technical assistance for such investments and cooperation for better use of EU structural funds.

This is the EIB’s first climate agreement with an Italian city and the second in Europe. The Bank is committed to aligning all its financing activities with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

Specifically, the strategic sectors of collaboration will be in four key areas:

• green infrastructure;
• energy efficiency of public buildings;
• redevelopment of urban spaces and the urban fabric with a view to climate change adaptation;
• implementation of financial instruments supported by the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in priority sectors for the development of cohesion policies, either concerning the closing phase of the current 2014-2020 programming period or in preparation for the imminent 2021-2027 programming period.

This broad collaboration will be applied on two levels once the projects have been identified together and evaluated positively. Level 1: the EIB operates as a financial institution, with all the advantages in terms of maturity and cost (low-interest rates) that its funding makes available to the loan beneficiaries. Level 2: with a view to complementing EU structural funds, the EIB will play a technical and financial advisory role for projects promoted by the City of Turin, including via the implementation and management of financial instruments.

Important updates from Homes4All the project of impact finance to face the housing emergency in Torino promoted by the City of Torino together with the Chamber of commerce of Torino, Brainscapital, Homers, ACMOS, within Torino Social Impact.

Homes4All was born to solve a problem: the pathways of poverty very often start from the loss of one’s own home. It doesn’t matter if this happens due to personal or entrepreneurial events, but from the loss of the house onward the gravity of any previous situation increases to the point that it becomes hardly reversible, with very high costs for people, families and the whole community.

Homes4All promotes an innovative housing strategy through the identification of property blocks, free or occupied, of different origins (court auctions, vacant housing, donations) to be entrusted to the management of a newco/startup. The company proceeds, in case of empty housing, to renovate, enhance or make available to the social rental channels and, in case of occupied housing, to support tenants in case of debt situations.

From today is online the pre-campaign of equity crowdfunding on LITA realised by the innovative newco/startup with the same name of the project. The startup has the great advantage of having management and operating costs of the first 3 years covered by the contribution, paid in favor of the project, by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.  This allows the startup to use and allocate the funds collected through the Equity Crowdfunding campaign exclusively to the acquisition of real estate

Read more about the project and discover socially responsible crowdfunding.

The SimplifAI Ted team, an impact startup selected by SocialFare and currently accelerating with the FOUNDAMENTA#9 program, wins the 2nd prize of Welfare che Impresa!

SimplifAI Ted offers a personalized remote assistance service that allows citizens to inform themselves and request the social benefits they are entitled to through a simple approach, using the necessary support at every stage of the procedure: a way to simplify bureaucracy and make public services universally accessible.

The startup won the 2nd prize of “Welfare, what an enterprise!”, an initiative that rewards and supports the best welfare projects promoted by bodies able to produce benefits in terms of local development. The competition, now in its 4th edition, is promoted by Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Fondazione Bracco, Fondazione Snam, Fondazione Con Il Sud, Fondazione Peppino Vismara and UBI Banca, with the contribution of AICCON, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano – Tiresia and Impacton.

The Covid-19 emergency highlighted an increasing number of old people in need because of their loneliness or poverty.

S.E.A. is looking for new volunteers for this summer.

If you can’t make your little donation, please give some of your most precious good: your TIME.

We ask for 3 hours/a week to help us to carry out our voluntary services for the elderly during summer holidays.

Gardens, virtual warehouses, beehives, 17 proposals arrived at the Metropolitan City of Turin for the call for ideas of Top Metro FaBene on the Municipalities of Collegno, Grugliasco, Moncalieri, Rivoli and Venaria.

From the creation of a virtual warehouse that brings together local associations to encourage the donation of food and basic necessities products, to the promotion of a direct channel between farms and citizens to encourage greater knowledge of the quantity and quality of food available and seasonality; but there are also those who have thought of vegetable gardens as places of activity and training from which to cook meals from a canteen and make the circuit economically sustainable.

It has also been proposed to work with subjects seeking international protection in the construction of an apiary in which to produce honey and other products to be resold to finance further professional projects.

The 5 final projects, which will have been judged more interesting and of greater impact, will benefit from an accompanying path with professionals and experts of social innovation, circular economy and sustainability, but above all will receive a fund of € 30.000 carry out the experimentation on the territories.

Info: www.cittametropolitana.torino.it/speciali/2020/topmetro_fabene/

A research to bring out the wealth of experience and skills in the field.

Make your voice heard: take part in the survey.

Monday, July 13 2020

Today starts the research project wanted and supported by Compagnia di San Paolo and developed by Medicina a Misura di Donna Foundation, in collaboration with CCW – Cultural Welfare Center and DORs – Documentation Center for Health Promotion. The aim is to bring out and map the experiences of cooperation between Culture, Health, Social and Education through the digital survey hosted by the italianonprofit.it platform. The survey is active from 13 July to 10 September 2020, click here to fill it in.

The research is part of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation’s long-term strategic programme to develop the virtuous relationship between Culture and Health in Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta.
These territories are at the forefront in Italy for a multiplicity of pioneering experiences of great interest, however little known and recognized, which encounter difficulties in having continuity, sustainability and real impact of the system. The intent of the research is precisely to bring out and map experiences, skills and sensitivity of the territory, regarding the cooperation between the cultural, health, social and educational fields, aimed at increasing the welfare of people and communities.

Why participate in the survey?
The main advantages:

• to be included in the first frame of reference of the ongoing Culture and Health projects in the territories of Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta;
• to report their existence as individual and/or organizational subjects willing to be part of a multidisciplinary community, an ecosystem that sees the collaboration of operators from the cultural, health, educational and social welfare world;
• to indicate what is necessary to strengthen the paths, identifying the enabling factors to make pioneering projects make a leap of scale;
• to prepare for the next European programming, particularly focused on cross over, i.e. systematic and systemic interactions between Culture and Health.

Who is the survey aimed at?
The survey areas:

• Culture and prevention
  Projects that favor the active participation of citizens, with or without pathologies, in cultural activities aimed at the well-being and prevention offered by the territory.
• Culture, care relationships and medical humanities
  Cultural intervention and training projects that influence and improve the quality of the care relationship and the biopsychosocial well-being of patients, care professionals and carers.
• Culture for the humanization of care places                                                                                      Cultural projects (visual arts, architecture, design, music, performing arts, digital languages, etc.) that work to temporarily or permanently transform physical places of care in the direction of a greater humanization and an indirect impact on the organizational climate and care.
• Wellness and care in places of Culture                                                                                                Wellness and care projects carried out in the places themselves and integrated in the programming of cultural organizations (museums, theatres, libraries, new cultural centres, etc.).

This is the beginning, in Italy, of the creation of a laboratory for experimentation, research and training between operators and cultural, health, social welfare and educational organizations. The data included in the research referring to the project dimension, to the individual organizational subjects involved will be protected and used only for research purposes.
Participate immediately in the survey!

For more information: contatti@culturalwelfare.center and culturaesalute@italianonprofit.it

Can we predict successful innovations based on what already happened?

On Monday, July 20 2020, from 2 pm to 6 pm our Impact Masterclass| Live!, all in English.

The hand that draws itself: narration and innovation curated by Cottino Social Impact Campus and Experientia, with Giovanni Nisato.

The goal of the Masterclass is to increase awareness of how narratives make innovation possible and vice versa.

You will learn to…

• Define how narratives build innovation: from startups to industrial roadmaps and their warnings;
• Determine how innovation builds narratives: experience and success are different things;
• Take a more critical look at some narratives about innovation.

Learning Journey with:

Giovanni Nisato

The international impact events canceled due to the pandemic were reconfirmed in Turin in 2021 and a calendar is being recomposed that confirms the centrality of the Turin ecosystem in the impact economy.

First of all, the GSG For Impact Investing Leadership Meeting, whose 2020 edition was scheduled to take place in Turin in virtual mode, was confirmed from 5 to 8 May 2021 in our city. The GSG is undoubtedly the leading international network dedicated to impact investing, it is an independent global organization that brings together leaders from the world of finance, business and philanthropy. Dedicated to boosting impact investments, which today represent just 1% of the capital allocated globally, GSG analyzes, promotes, and discusses the tools that can return social and environmental results together with financial returns, business models that can profitably pursue a double result. The debate also focuses on the definition of global policies that promote the diffusion of investments that bring together private and public capital with social entrepreneurship and non-profit organizations in order to bring about significant social change.

On the other hand, the Ashoka Europe Changemaker Summit will take place in November 2021, at the end of a path dedicated to social innovators that will start already in the 2020 edition that will take place online in the autumn with the collaboration of Torino Social Impact. Ashoka is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs for social innovation. Ashoka is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to be an agent of change in the world (Everyone a changemaker) and the aim of Ashoka is not only to maximize social impact but also to create transversal alliances capable of changing entire systems. This is why for over 35 years she has been selecting, networking, and training more than 3500 social entrepreneurs active in different sectors and in different parts of the world. In Italy Ashoka has been active since 2014.

Finally, the annual Iris Network event. Also, this event was canceled in 2020 and is reconfirmed in 2021 in Turin in spring. Iris is the network of social enterprise research institutes and its annual scientific colloquium is a key event in the national and international debate on third sector companies and their evolution.

The international impact events canceled due to the pandemic were reconfirmed in Turin in 2021, and a calendar is being recomposed that confirms the centrality of the Turin ecosystem in the impact economy.

First, the GSG For Impact Investing Leadership Meeting, whose 2020 edition was scheduled to take place in Turin in virtual mode, was confirmed from 5 to 8 May 2021 in our city. The GSG is undoubtedly the leading international network dedicated to impact investing, it is an independent global organization that brings together leaders from the world of finance, business and philanthropy. Dedicated to boosting impact investments, which today represent just 1% of the capital allocated globally, GSG analyzes, promotes and discusses the tools that can return social and environmental results together with financial returns, business models that can profitably pursue a double result. The debate also focuses on the definition of global policies that promote the diffusion of investments that bring together private and public capital with social entrepreneurship and non-profit organizations in order to bring about significant social change.

The Ashoka Europe Changemaker Summit will take place in November 2021, at the end of a path dedicated to social innovators that will start in the 2020 edition that will take place online in the autumn with the collaboration of Torino Social Impact. Ashoka is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs for social innovation. Ashoka is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to be an agent of change in the world (Everyone a changemaker) and the aim of Ashoka is not only to maximize social impact, but also to create transversal alliances capable of changing entire systems. This is why for over 35 years she has been selecting, networking and training more than 3500 social entrepreneurs active in different sectors and in different parts of the world. In Italy Ashoka has been active since 2014.

Finally, the annual Iris Network event. This event was also cancelled in 2020 and reconfirmed in 2021 in Turin in the spring. Iris is the network of social enterprise research institutes and its annual scientific colloquium is a key event in the national and international debate on third sector companies and their evolution.

In the heart of Porta Palazzo, in the disused space of a historic newsstand, Thursday, July 9 will inaugurate “Lo spaccio di cultura – Portineria di Comunità” after a first virtual christening during the Covid emergency. From 11.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. a series of meetings will take place in the space, ending with a convivial moment and an artistic flash mob.

“Portineria di Comunità” proposes itself as a physical and relational place where we can begin to rebuild a community of proximity, where we can trust one another, give and receive help, exchange information, suggestions and ideas. A place where to find help for small daily tasks and where to rebuild relationships based on solidarity and trust. A point of reference for the community that will make it possible to meet and exchange skills and needs, a place of trust and an exercise in human microeconomics.

The project – conceived by Rete Italiana di Cultura Popolare in partnership with Ufficio Pastorale Migranti e Nessuno è straniero – is part of the 15 projects of social innovation supported by the City of Torino (Torino Social Factory project) co-financed by Pon Metro Programma Operativo Città Metropolitane 2014-2020.

The space in Piazza della Repubblica (corner of Via Milano) will be open from Monday to Saturday from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm.

Contacts: info@spacciocultura.it – www.spacciocultura.it – T 3478788271

13 – 24 July 2020, Impact HUB Torino (Piazza Teresa Noce 17 D) hosts the Hackability Summer Camp 2020, ten meetings dedicated to co-design for creating 3D printable solutions that can make the Barriera di Milano area more accessible for people with disabilities.

Hackability Summer Camp is realized with the support of Confcooperative Piemonte, Coop-up Torino and with the collaboration of Impact Hub Torino, Open Incet, Via Baltea 3, Circolo Arci Antonio Banfo – Laboratory of Culture, Social point Il Passo, The “Public Baths” of Via Agliè, EXAR Social Value Solutions, Turin Scout Group 9.

Fill the form to apply, otherwise write to the Facebook page or call the 011197853.