The project was born with the intention of reactivating the rooms of Pavilion A of the former Children Institute of the Province of Turin orphanage until the 1980s, that had been abandoned since 2011. In order to do so, these rooms have been re-activated through art, transforming into lively environments and constructing meanings and relationships.

The process develops in two phases. 

In the first, the artists intervened on the spaces, reinterpreting them through their own sensitivity and expressive language. In the second phase, the rooms are inhabited, lived and activated by other subjects: associations, artists, musicians, collectives, who further transform them with their presence, giving life to a continuous exchange between past, present and future.

The fundamental point is living, life in its thousand facets, the past life of places, the present in the artist's relationship with the other from himself,

the future with the work's relationship

with the lives of others.

The work that falls within a merely “expositive” logic accepts that the public remains such, with Stanze Viventi the elements of the project are strictly conjugated with the dimension of life. The artist does not limit himself to exhibiting, but enters into dialogue with the place and with those who will pass through it after him. The work is not designed for a passive public, but to be an active part of an experience that involves bodies, gestures, stories and identities.

Inhabiting these rooms means taking them out of oblivion and anonymity, giving them back a soul through art and life. In this sense, the project opposes the logic of “non-places” – neutral spaces, passageways, devoid of relationships – for create places full of meaning instead, where art becomes a tool for social transformation and regeneration.