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Today the space offers each sunday different activities, which are co-designed by the Residents Council (active since the end of 2013). The activities are free and sponsored by the Municipality and by different actors, between which the local housing association.

The Scugnizzo Liberatois one of the bottom-up experiments formally recognized by the Municipality of Naples as part of a broader strategy of heritage development. The focus of this strategy is to give value to the common goods and to re-read the traditional legal institute of the civic use (uso civico)

Recognized as a common good of the city, it is currently considered to be a place of congregation and sociality as well as an experiment of urban regeneration.

Contact : Milano_SmartCity@comune.milano.it

The productions of the Collective take different forms including: urban or architectural studies, collective projects, scenography, video productions, meetings, open workshops, teaching, or reflexive research.

The interest for these experiments is not found solely in the results, but also and mostly in the processes that shape them as well as in the new environment and the new behaviours that these experiments generate. For the Collective, experimentations are progressively leading to the understanding of how to produce spaces in the long-term.

In2014, Collectif Etc has set up with some others a “publishing hut” called Hyperville. It was created, and is now supported and deployed by people engaged in urban collective practices, and interested in reviving and transforming the Public Space. The objective is to gather common cultural reference i.e. written publications or maps. It also nurtures and encourages organizations and actions across a broad network.

Since 2016, the Collective also animates the “Turfu Embassy” whose objective isto deploy useful, friendly and convivial actions for the district of la Belle-de-Mai in Marseille and its inhabitants, through the sharing of its diversified and creative know-how. The “Turfu Embassy” provides for living and co-working spaces shared by associations and activist artists.