Stories from the house of Laura Castagno and Leonardo Mosso

The stories of the Things that inhabit a magical house, a constellation of a web of relationships and common attitudes of crossing the boundaries of languages, from art to architecture, from design to applied arts: Nicola Mosso and Gigi Chessa, Umberto Cuzzi and Otorino Aloisio, Gino Levi Montalcini and Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig, Riccardo Gualino and Cesarina Gurgo Salice, the Turin futurists: Fillìa, Pippo Oriani, Nikolay Diulgheroff and the Futurist dinners of the Taverna del Santopalato, the demolition of Carlo Mollino's Ippica and the collaborations with Alvar Aalto. A house - encyclopedia of a possible story of the Turin twentieth century.

Lecture performance by Maurizio Cilli

Soundtrack from sound samples by Enore Zaffiri

Maurizio Cilli
Architect and artist, he directs his research towards the study of the phenomena of transformation of anthropized and urban territories, experimenting with interpretative interventions through the expressive languages of the contemporary. Among the founders in 1993 of the Città Svelata collective, engaged in projects aimed at the quality of public space. From 2010 to 2015 he collaborated as a researcher and designer with the Giulio Einaudi Foundation. In 2012 and 2013 he was Tutor Advisor for the Master in Design theses at the Domus Academy in Milan. Senior professor at the IED University of Turin in Project Methodology. He conducts teaching activities and workshops on the themes of Project Culture, Living and the application of Civic Arts as practices in urban and territorial generative processes. Since the 2020 edition, he has curated with Stefano Mirti the Architecture Festival BOTTOM UP! When the city transforms from below, promoted by the Foundation for Architecture of Turin. In 2020 he founded NOVA EXPRESS with Gianluigi Ricuperati. He is editor of the NOVA EXPRESS magazine and of the eponymous daily Capsule for “Il Giornale dell'Arte”.

Enore Sapphires
He was an Italian composer and musician. In 1964 he founded the Studio di Musica Elettronica in Turin (SMET) with Roberto Musto and Riccardo Vianello, increasing the diffusion of the new electronic musical language in Italy – in the Sixties and Seventies – also through the use of the synthesizer as a concert instrument. Since the Seventies he has combined musical production with visual language – first with videotape and later with purely digital means – entering the ranks of the major Italian Computer Art artists.