The hands slide, the gaze judges, the mind calculates and the heart feels. Matter takes shape and becomes creation. It was 2003 when Unesco decided that the time had finally come to recognize as a World Heritage Site not only the monuments it had managed to build in its history, but also its ability to create objects and experiences: the intangible heritage, in fact , often at risk of extinction, which in Italy today has 15 references. It’s not just about culture. «The laboratory is a social space.
Laboratories, past and present, have always created bonds between people, ”writes Richard Sennet in his now classic The artisan man (Feltrinelli), underlining the most vital aspect of the places where creativity is born and shared, that is the ateliers, the shops.
