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3.4 Capacity building - BEST PRACTICES

Here two interesting and sustainable projects developed for the cultural program Matera Capital of Culture
2019. They both created a social, cultural and environmental impact on the local community.

Best Practice n. 1

Open Design School is a laboratory of interdisciplinary experimentation and innovation, born as a pillar
project at the service of the realization of the cultural program of Matera 2019 - Capital of culture. It is
a horizontal platform, a place of sharing and mutual learning, driven by the need for continuous creative
exchange between art, science and technology. Inside, they design, model and build solutions through
a modular system that, as well as being functional and reversible, temporarily modifies the urban space
suggesting new possibilities of use, inviting the public to enjoy the artistic content and feel an active part
of Matera 2019. ODS was also born as an opportunity to develop new networks and new economies within
the city, but also as a generator that allows an active and collective re-engagement of public space. They
have involved 110 Italian and European artists and professionals from Basilicata in the activities of the
Open Design School, they have mapped about 400 places, produced 9 large exhibitions, 11 urban
installations and 10 cultural events, thus encouraging the meeting and enjoyment of creative content by
the public.

Best Practice n. 2

Silent city is a format for the creation of an opera lyric, an audience development process and an artistic
investigation of the city and its communities. It is an original community lyric opera created - in every
phase - by young people, the elderly and children of Basilicata and Matera in particular, led by the
composer Nigel Osborne, together with national and international artists. “For us, work as language
became a way of investigating the city of Matera in its complexity. Stories, words, music and sounds.”