Foundation for architecture / Turin

Cultura di Base is one of the four pilot projects of the Cultural Well-being Lab promoted within Well Impact, the experimental path undertaken by the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation to identify projects, places, languages ​​and cultural relations of prevention and care. Positioned on the thematic axis of "culture for the humanization of places of care", Cultura di Base is a project of the Foundation for architecture / Turin in collaboration with Circolo del Design, ARTECO, ASL City of Turin and the Order of Doctors of Turin. Cultura di Base intends to experiment the opening of medical spaces for general practitioners of the ASL City of Turin in places of culture from the 8 districts of the city of Turin, characterized by an "intense architecture", that is of recognized quality for the design of spaces and in the communication of emotions. These places become waiting rooms and doctor's visit rooms and host patients involving them in a completely new cultural and architectural experience. The experimentation aims to demonstrate that the experience of a medical visit in places of culture contributes to decreased stress associated with waiting, increasing the well-being and psycho-physical comfort of patients and caregivers, improving their relationship.