URWAN Ferla: the role of art in sustainability

URWAN codesign in Ferla: the role of art in sustainability

The urban co-design process, which has involved the entire Ferla community in recent months through the Start Park methodology, is proceeding with great success thanks to SVI.MED.‘s work for the URWAN (Urban Regenerative Water Avant-garde) project.

Following the launch events and previous co-design workshops, which were also held with the technical support of IRIDRA (partner) and Co-design Toscana (external support), the time has finally come to unleash creativity on Wednesday, May 14!

With the involvement of the OCRA Collective, an association that “strongly believes in the power of community, nature, and art” and combines urban regeneration with art and activism (artivism), the students of the I.C. Valle dell’Anapo participated in various recreational and artistic activities. These activities had two objectives: to beautify their Green Wall and the surrounding nature, and to promote awareness of the importance of preserving it.

Art and creativity have the great power to convey fundamental messages through a universal language that transcends all boundaries and diversity, raising awareness among a wide audience and stimulating gradual transformations.

As of today, the Green Wall (Wall2Water), monitored through the CARDIMED project, will always be colorful despite the changing seasons. The Piazzetta Aldo Moro, an important gathering place for Ferla’s youth, will be livelier and more fun thanks to outdoor games painted by the students. The green areas of the school and Piazzetta Aldo Moro will become home to pollinating insects that are essential to the ecosystem. Meanwhile, the fields around the school and the town itself will grow lusher in the coming months thanks to the students’ seed bombs.

It is an art that speaks not only to social and climate challenges, but also to collective solutions. It represents an affirmation of commitment to sustainability and the beauty of nature.

Watch the video  here.