A cultural hub experimenting with new ways of inhabiting a place
MUDD
Chiesa dei Cristallini
A project that weaves together contemporary art, cultural activation and new ways of inhabiting the neighborhood. MUDD works on presence, continuity and the ability to make a space recognizable and open.
Project goals
MUDD builds a cultural device that does not end with the event itself: it brings together artists, residents and visitors to activate new ways of using and caring for places.
Presence
An open threshold
Making the place accessible, recognizable and capable of generating new habits of attendance.
A project of continuous activation
MUDD works on the threshold between cultural space and civic space. It is not just a program, but a practice of stewardship that builds familiarity, curiosity and relationship.
The strength of the project lies in continuity: keeping a space alive even when no major event is taking place.
What it leaves behind
The project strengthens the identity of the place, broadens audiences and makes more stable a cultural presence that engages with the neighborhood in a non-episodic way.
When culture remains present over time, a place changes status and becomes an inhabitable threshold for the neighborhood.
Lines of activation
Fields of intervention
- Distributed cultural programming
- Activation of local and nearby audiences
- Contemporary use of the place as civic infrastructure
Steps of consolidation
- Making the place recognizable and traversable
- Building return visits and frequency over time
- Turning cultural presence into a shared habit
Project partners
A network of cultural and civic actors supports the project as it evolves.
Promoters
Project partners
With the support of
Patronage
The network of rebirth
Other projects and places that share the same work of cultural activation in the Rione Sanità.
Progetto Luce
Chiesa di Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi
The project born during the lockdown that set places, skills and relationships in the Rione Sanità back in motion.
Every cultural hub needs a network
If you want to contribute to the continuity of these processes, you can join the network that makes them possible.