Side Visit

In Turin, between the Borgo Vittoria and Madonna di Campagna neighborhoods, Cascina Fossata is a project that aims to give back to the city a quality meeting space to intercept new housing and social needs in a changing territory.

The project is, managed through logic of co-design and active involvement of the different stakeholders we want to "meet" who, through their own participation, contribute to the creation of new context, benefiting from its opportunities and potential.

Starting from the desire to recover and give back to the city a place with great potential that has been abandoned for a long time, the Cascina Fossata project, has as its primary purpose that of fostering new social interactions between different subjects with specific needs.

The overall redevelopment of the old Cascina together with a new building that stands as a new landmark of the area, includes the construction of a Temporary Collective Residence, a Hospitality Center, a restaurant, a medium-sized commercial sales structure, spaces dedicated to craft activities, a service center for the promotion of socio-cultural activities, two internal courtyards that constitute a new public park, safe and equipped with children's games and an en plen air gym for the residents of the neighborhood.

The San Salvario Neighborhood House is a project promoted and implemented by the San Salvario ETS Local Development Agency in partnership with the City of Turin, Compagnia di San Paolo, District 8 and a large number of nonprofit organizations.

The San Salvario Neighborhood House is a laboratory for the planning and implementation of social and cultural activities. Associations, citizens, artistic and cultural workers are involved. An open and multicultural space, a place of intersection, meeting and exchange of activities and people.

The project was started thanks to a grant from the Vodafone Foundation and the City of Turin's co-participation in the renovation costs of the former public baths building at 14 Via Morgari.

At the San Salvario Neighborhood House there is a cafeteria, a playroom, an office and co-working space, a youth space, a terrace and courtyard, a meeting room, information desks and listening spaces. You can attend art workshops, dance classes, oriental disciplines, music and singing, language and computer classes; you can organize birthday parties, lectures, performances; or propose activities to be designed and implemented with others as well. In addition, the agency has a 30-year lease on the building of the former public baths at 14 Morgari Street and manages and coordinates the activities of the Neighborhood House.