Listening to the neighbourhood
Meetings and conversations to gather experiences, needs and ideas about the spaces, paying particular attention to those who have fewer chances to be heard.
Cinghio Sud, Montanara neighbourhood · Parma
Cinghio
in Comune
Changing the city, building community.
A project bringing new life to two public spaces in Cinghio Sud — a stretch of via Veterani dello Sport and piazza Caduti di Superga — through cultural activities, workshops and shared care, together with the people who live here every day.
What changes is both the places and the people who move through them: Cinghio in Comune grows out of building a new way of living the space together, founded on mutual care and on cultural activity made with the neighbourhood.
Programme
The phases of the project
The programme takes shape step by step, beginning by listening to the people who live here.
Designing the spaces together
Participatory design workshops where residents and designers will work together on the transformation of the two spaces, supported by orizzontale.
Neighbourhood videomaking
A course for 10-15 young people aged 15 to 18 on the basics of filming and editing, run by Cooperativa Sociale ECOLE.
Indicative calendar — final dates will be confirmed as the activities are organised.
Towards R-estate al Cinghio
Do you have an idea for the neighbourhood?
From late April to late September 2027, via Veterani dello Sport and piazza Caduti di Superga will host R-estate al Cinghio [Summer at the Cinghio], a season of concerts, open-air cinema, workshops, dinners and meetings that we want to put together with the people who live in the neighbourhood.
Is there something you would like to do, propose or see happen at the Cinghio? An activity, a meeting, a workshop or simply an idea to start from: tell us about it in the form.
Tell us your ideaThe form is in Italian. You can write your answers in English, or write to us at info@cinghioincomune.it and we will reply.
A project by Sex & the City (lead organisation), for the P.A.T.T.O. per il Territorio [Pact for the Territory] call of Fondazione Cariparma, together with the City of Parma, Emporio Parma, Cooperativa Sociale ECOLE, Laboratorio Democratico Montanara, Montanara Insieme, Centro Sociale Orti Cinghio, the “Luigi Malerba” library and orizzontale (technical advisor).
