Social and Community Theater

TO BE is an innovation project on the well-being of university students, the first in Italy, and proposes a pilot action of experimentation and evaluation of the performing arts to support the well-being of students according to the methodology developed by the Social Community Theatre Centre of the University of Turin starting from the scientific evidence collected on the role of the arts in the promotion of physical and mental health by the World Health Organization. The project is part of a national and European programming horizon – from the European Agenda for Culture to the new European programming lines for Education, Culture and Social to the upcoming actions of the PNRR – which brings increasing attention to cultural welfare, or to the cultural and artistic dimension such as social innovation and promotion of well-being and personal and community health. As part of the proposal formed the College Einaudi for an integral growth of the young adult university, the project aims to experiment, evaluate and develop a model of Artist-based intervention to support personal and community well-being through strengthening awareness and ability to care for one's physical, mental and emotional well-being.

Gardens of Aurora is an urban regeneration project, winner of the Creative Living Lab - 3rd Edition public notice promoted by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture realized in collaboration with Opera Barolo, Ufficio Pastorale Migranti, the Cooperativa Sociale Mediterraneo Onlus, the Associazione Generazione Migranti, the Accademia Albertina of Turin and the Casa Cinema of Turin.
Gardens of Aurora is an art-based urban regeneration project that has developed on the double axis the redevelopment of spaces and the development of communities: design, architecture and art as tools for reactivate and consolidate the sense of belonging to forgotten places. The approach adopted was "bottom-up" with co-design and co-construction practices, realized through a perspective intergenerational and multicultural, also given by the context in which the intervention was inserted. This has meaning to give value and space, through dedicated activities, to the emergence of the needs and desires of citizens on public and community space and the creation of a common imaginary, capable of generating processes of re-appropriation of urban space by the community of the territory. The project has responded to the needs that have emerged strongly in the pandemic crisis of open spaces and cultural and provides structural value for the Aurora district of the gardens of the Barolo Social District (DSB) through a process of co-planning with the inhabitants accompanied by Teatro Popolare Europeo | BAC Space (TPE | BAC space) and partners.
On June 30, 2022, the Great Parade of Aurora Gardens arrived in the city. To the rhythm of samba, accompanied by majorettes and tambourines, parading with over 100 signs and a walking garden with as many plants, an artistic, festive and ritual procession of over 300 people celebrated the importance of urban gardens crossing the streets of Aurora.

Co-Health is a two-year Action Research project in the area of healthcare supported by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino (Savings Bank Turin Foundation). The project aims to plan, test and evaluate a transferable protocol concerning active education for doctors and nurses in order to strengthen their soft skills. The Co-Health project minds to use innovative techniques of the Social and Community Theatre methodology to strengthen the workers soft skills. The social theater was used for team work, the management of unforeseen events and stress. With the theater, for the first time, the faculties of Medicine, Obstetrics and Nursing are united in training. The Co-health program, interfaculty, started in January 2014 with 60 students from Turin and Cuneo who received training based on the Community Social Theater methodology to work in interdisciplinary teams, to become self-aware and act effectively in complexity.

The Albergo della Luce project was conceived and implemented by the Social and Community Theater Center of the University of Turin in collaboration with the OTAF Foundation (Ticinese Childhood Assistance Opera) for the centenary of its history. The title of the project is inspired by the ancient name of the first building dedicated to OTAF one hundred years ago. The project, conceived according to the methodology of the Social and Community Theater, is based on the direct involvement of non-professionals in the creative process through a multiplicity of theatrical work methods and uses the methods of narrative theater to give voice to the many experiences of a community. The community narrative starts from the individual stories of its members and creates a great collective story. Each person revealed their own little piece of life, shared emotions and memories. The many fragments of life collected during the meetings were combined in the form of theatrical representation and narration and, with photographic documents and musical accompaniments, they went to reconstruct the history of the Albergo della luce.