The project was born with the intention of reactivating the rooms of Pavilion A of the former IPI (a city orphanage until the 1980s) abandoned since 2011 and to do so through art, transforming these rooms into environments pulsating with meaning and relationship . The project develops in two phases. In the first, the artists intervened on the spaces, reinterpreting them through their own sensitivity and expressive language. In the second phase, the rooms are inhabited, experienced and activated by other subjects: associations, artists, musicians, collectives, who further transform them with their presence, giving life to a continuous exchange between past, present and future. The fundamental point is living, life in its thousand facets, the past life of places, the present in the artist's relationship with the other, the future with the relationship of the work with the lives of others. Artworks that falls within a merely “expositive” logic accepts that the public remains such, with Stanze Viventi the elements of the project are strictly conjugated with the dimension of life. The artist does not limit himself to exhibiting, but enters into dialogue with the place and with those who will pass through it after him. The work is not designed for a passive public, but to be an active part of an experience that involves bodies, gestures, stories and identities.

Inhabiting these rooms means taking them out of oblivion and anonymity, giving them back a soul through art and life. In this sense, the project opposes the logic of “non-places” – neutral spaces, passageways, devoid of relationships – to instead create places full of meaning, in which art becomes a tool for transformation and social regeneration.