UDUM focused on protecting the environmental heritage of the Val di Sole (Trento IT), by addressing the urgency of the melting of the glaciers and the water crisis, in a perspective that unites the Alps and the Dolomites to the Mediterranean, up to the Himalayas. How to interact with/adapt to climate change?
The methodology UDUM adopted to reach the broadest audience was co-design and co-producing simple and direct means such as music, water bottles, springs/waterways trekking paths and maps.
Cross-border/international
Italy
Germany
Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Other
Val di Sole (Trento - Italy)
Pejo 3000 (Trento - Italy)
It addresses urban-rural linkages
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
No
No
Yes
2021-11-04
As a representative of an organization, in partnership with other organisations
Name of the organisation(s): Accademia Teatro alla Scala Type of organisation: Private Foundation First name of representative: Luisa Last name of representative: Vinci Gender: Female Nationality: Italy Function: Direttrice generale Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via Santa Marta Town: Milan Postal code: 20123 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 02 8545 1160 E-mail:infocorsi@accademialascala.it Website:https://www.accademialascala.it
Name of the organisation(s): Azienda per il Turismo delle Valli di Sole, Pejo e Rabbi Scpa Type of organisation: For-profit company First name of representative: Fabio Last name of representative: Sacco Gender: Male Nationality: Italy Function: Direttore Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via Marconi 7 Town: Malé - TN Postal code: 38027 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 0463 901280 E-mail:info@visitvaldisole.it Website:https://www.visitvaldisole.it
Name of the organisation(s): Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio Type of organisation: Other public institution First name of representative: Alberto Last name of representative: Pretti Gender: Male Nationality: Italy Function: Presidente Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via Alberto de Simoni, 42 Town: Bormio - SO Postal code: 23032 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 0463 909770 E-mail:parcostelvio@provincia.tn.it Website:http://www.stelviopark.it
Name of the organisation(s): MUSE - Museo delle Scienze Type of organisation: Museum First name of representative: Michele Last name of representative: Lanzinger Gender: Male Nationality: Italy Function: Direttore Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: C.so del Lavoro e della Scienza, 3 Town: Trento Postal code: 38122 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 0461 270311 E-mail:museinfo@muse.it Website:https://www.muse.it
Name of the organisation(s): Trentino School of Management Type of organisation: For-profit company First name of representative: Paola Last name of representative: Borz Gender: Female Nationality: Italy Function: President Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via G. Giusti 40 Town: Trento Postal code: 38122 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 0461 020020 E-mail:info@tsm.tn.it Website:https://www.tsm.tn.it
Name of the organisation(s): Comune di Peio Type of organisation: Public authority (European/national/regional/local) First name of representative: Alberto Last name of representative: Pretti Gender: Male Nationality: Italy Function: Sindaco Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Piazza Municipio 6 Town: Peio Postal code: 38020 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 0463 754059 E-mail:protocollo@comune.peio.tn.it Website:https://www.comune.peio.tn.it
Name of the organisation(s): Funivie Pejo 3000 Type of organisation: For-profit company First name of representative: Marco Last name of representative: Dell'Eva Gender: Male Nationality: Italy Function: Presidente Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Piazzale Telecabina, 1 Town: Peio Postal code: 38020 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 0463 753238 E-mail:info@skipejo.it Website:http://www.skipejo.it
Name of the organisation(s): BMW Italia Type of organisation: For-profit company First name of representative: Massimiliano Last name of representative: Di Silvestre Gender: Male Nationality: Italy Function: Amministratore Delegato Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via dell'Unione Europea 1 Town: San Donato Milanese - Milano Postal code: 20097 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 02 5161 0111 E-mail:info@bmw.it Website:https://www.bmw.it
Name of the organisation(s): Provincia Autonoma di Trento Type of organisation: Public authority (European/national/regional/local) First name of representative: Mario Last name of representative: Tonina Gender: Male Nationality: Italy Function: Vice-president Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Piazza Dante 15 Town: Trento Postal code: 38122 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 0461 495111 E-mail:info@provincia.tn.it Website:https://www.provincia.tn.it
Name of the organisation(s): Mountain Partnership - UN Mountain Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Rosa Laura Last name of representative: Romeo Gender: Female Nationality: Italy Function: Segretaria Generale Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Viale delle Terme di Caracalla Town: Roma Postal code: 00153 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 06 57051 E-mail:info@mountainpartnership.org Website:https://www.fao.org/mountain-partnership/en
Name of the organisation(s): K-Array Type of organisation: For-profit company First name of representative: Stefano Last name of representative: Zaccaria Gender: Male Nationality: Italy Function: Direttore Marketing Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via P. Romagnoli 17 Town: Firenze Postal code: 50038 Country: Italy Direct Tel:+39 055 848 7222 E-mail:info@k-array.com Website:https://www.k-array.com
UNO DI UN MILIONE (UDUM) talks of climate change Environment, through combining Art and Technology thanks to the active role of the Children Choir from the Accademia Teatro alla Scala and of the Collettivo OP. This happened in the frame of the melting Alps glaciers, during COVID19 times.
UDUM was carried out with the aim of protecting the water and environmental heritage of the Val di Sole in Trentino (Italy), addressing the urgency of the melting of the glaciers and the water crisis, in a planning perspective that unites the Alps and the Dolomites to the coasts of the Mediterranean, up to the Himalayas, sharing a planetary theme of common protection: how to interact with/adapt to climate change?
From 2020 to 2021, UDUM produced 10 labs with schools; 5 meeting with community, partners and stakeholders; 5 relevant regional and national events; one special song “Un Coro Di Un Milione” for fundraising; UDUM high level symphonic piece by Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Luca Lagash and Silvio Morais; UDUM monumental sculpture by Morgana Orsetta Ghini (Collettivo OP); UDUM Manifesto by Alessandro Cremonesi; UDUM inox water bottle for trekking and traveling; UDUM technological platform connected to water bottle; a map of water sources and waterways; the presentation of the project at COP26 in Glasgow and at the TEDx Riesi; the performance by the Children Choir from the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in the Pejo 3000 glacier and the performance by Luca Lagash at the sunrise in the Pejo 3000 glacier.
In autumn 2022, Teatro Alla Scala has already launched its second chapter of UDUM in the Mediterranean area with a focus on Sicily. The new phase will focus on the desertification process, on Energy Communities and CO2 stocking.
The new project counts on a bigger partnership which includes the Fondazione di Comunità di Messina, Isola Impresa Sociale, Farm Cultural Park, Fondazione di Comunità di Pistoia (Tuscany), Fondazione Sylva (Puglia), stakeholders from 6 EU Countries.
Climate change
Water
Music
Children / Community
Technology
The project aimed to:
1. move attention on global warming threat to glaciers
2. support maintenance of lakes and mountain basins
3. activate and promote "plastic free" policies
4. communicate about water sources, their purity and their ways
5. co-design music through the collaboration with schools and communities in peripheral / rural areas
6. empower people and move sense of responsibility concerning climate change
The project took place in the Stelvio national natural park and particularly on the Presena glacier, according to Nature Journal, one of the most significant indicators of climate change and the first one which risks extinction in a kind of planetary domino effect (OB1, OB2). Here it brought its main lab with the Val di Sole’ school children and international level artists executing the first performance of the symphonic piece with ice instruments into an ice theater (OB3).
UDUM designed one inox water bottle to avoid any plastic use and to take water directly from natural sources (OB4). To support tourists and communities to do it, a map of sources was produced and distributed. In collaboration with the MUSE Science Museum, other 30 pure waterways have been identified to produce a new map and make them available for the broader public (OB5, OB6).
The project aimed to create a global, clear, immediate and impactful message through Art.
Art was considered as the most important player to activate awareness: a monumental sculpture was designed by Morgana Orsetta Ghini (Collettivo OP) as a special auditorium which overlooks the boundless landscape of Pejo 3000, and where it is today possible to listen to the symphonic piece in its complete version recorded by the Orchestra and Chorus of Children's Voices of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, starting from children’s work, under the Artistic Direction of Luca Lagash. The sculpture consists of two elements made of corten iron and steel, soundproofed thanks to the sound systems of K-Array. The two sculptures are designed as a single place that invites the visitor to a sensory experience. Hearing, sight and touch take center stage.
It is possible to walk around or to enter the sculpture to perceive the sound in a different way.
Nature is an integral part of the installation: wind, rain, snow and ice merge into a single body, always different according to the climatic conditions and the season. Visitors will thus have a unique experience every time they visit Pejo 3000.
The graphic elements engraved in the steel recall those designed on the Uno Di Un Milione water bottle. The reinterpretation of hydrography, at the meeting point between the Noce Bianco and Noce Nero rivers, gives rise to a new source, which wants to symbolize life and birth in its forms.
A poetic manifesto was also written by Alessandro Cremonesi to make audiences aware of the relevance and the need for protection of natural resources. In the manifesto water plays a main role: “If you love poverty and concealment you are like me. If you prefer humility you are still like me who always slides downwards, lower than everyone else, and it is the only way I know to make things bear fruit.” [www.tofufilms.com/lavoro/OP2020/ExportGiu2021/OP_Manifesto.mov]
UDUM had a clear impact on local policy. After the project was completed, the Province of Trento announced it also wanted to become a “plastic free wide area”. According to the board resolution (num. 2089 - 3rd of Dec 2021), from July 2022, mono-use and plastic packaging for food and beverages has been forbidden in events organized, financed or sponsored by the Province of Trento. Moreover, from the 1st of Jan 2023, that packaging has been also excluded from selling and distributing in all Province offices.
All project actions were tested and feedback was collected from the different targets, including from local communities. This allowed Accademia Teatro alla Scala and its partners to improve the format and to make it ready for multiplication and available for other locations to adopt this approach as a leverage to improve their policies and their communities’ awareness. Consequently, in 2023 the project is being applied to the entire Sicily Region.
Following UDUM and grounded on its outputs, several tourism agencies in the Alps and Dolomites launched their Future Labs. For example, Val di Sole launched the platform “Back to the Future” with the aim to help its community to become protagonists of sustainable development, beyond snow and “standard” tourism. The ultimate goal is to design a new vision of the future and give concrete answers to real problems in terms of quality of life, regeneration, new generations and entrepreneurship. Public administrations are also involved in the process. [https://www.visitvaldisole.it/it/ritornoalfuturo]
The Community of the Paganella plateau set up an ever-evolving platform, unique of its kind in Italy, to support their society to be more resilient, able to imagine the future of the area and to co-design a vision of sustainable development based on a balanced long-term qualitative tourism development together with the improvement of its community’s life quality. [https://www.dolomitipaganellafuturelab.it]
UDUM addressed a multiple target: children, communities, tourists became co-designer of the process, together with artists and experts of climate change.
A series of labs have been conducted in schools in Val di Sole. Children have been invited to explore waterways and glaciers accompanied by artists and natural guides from the Stelvio national park. They have been then asked to compose lyrics and music in order to define emotions that arose from those experiences, and to share their thoughts about climate change. Some labs have also been done with grandparents and elderly people to recover and transfer memories of the state of glaciers and rivers when they were young. This created new conditions for the communities to better understand the different status of their territories along with climate changes that occurred in the last decades.
During the first COVID19 crisis (March-April 2020) children involved in UDUM labs recorded from home a special song called “Un Coro Di Un Milione” to support elderly care facilities in Trentino, facing in that moment a great number of casualties. The song allowed a crowdfunding action and it succeeded in supporting local hospitals. [www.tofufilms.com/lavoro/OP2020/ExportGiu2021/Coro_New.mp4]
Local communities have been involved in the full process and their collaboration was fundamental to install the monumental sculpture in extreme high mountain conditions.
UDUM project established from the very beginning a strict collaboration with public and private stakeholders. The Province of Trento and the Val di Sole public administrations played the most important role to make the project possible and to target it to the massive number of tourists spending their holidays in this area. It was important for restaurants, hotels, skilift and cableway providers to communicate and disseminate their “plastic-free” message and mission and to boost a new approach to the environment and particularly to sensitive areas such as the glaciers. Private stakeholders also contributed to actions by funding or by technical support. They also directly joined the project with their teams, means, communication and sharing.
At the national and international level, the project received rather high attention. The partnership with UN Mountain as well as with the University of Berlin and the University of Glasgow brought UDUM on the important stage of COP26 as a pilot case to discuss.
UDUM is a multidisciplinary project. Experts from climate change, physics, forest science, energy, technology, tourism, agriculture have been called to interact with artists to co-design music, sculpture, a technological platform, specific design products such as the water bottles.
To do that, UDUM designed and managed open laboratories and organized special events. The most interesting interaction took place between experts of environment, musicians, sculptors and authors which created the ground to compose the symphonic piece, realize the monumental sculpture and compose the UDUM Manifesto. The second relevant interaction was between musicians and engineers. Actually, the symphonic piece was broken down into single notes through a customized technological platform. Each note was connected to a single inox bottle. Users were invited to buy those bottles and to reveal the assigned note by a QR code and to join, consequently, a large community of people, all of them aiming at water saving and at a more conscious attitude towards the environment. Once released, all notes will return in that platform to the complete symphony.
[www.tofufilms.com/lavoro/OP2020/ExportGiu2021/Istruzioni_Vert_17Luglio21.mov]
From 2020 to 2021, in the pandemic period, UDUM produced:
- 10 labs with schools
- 5 meeting with community, partners and stakeholders
- 5 relevant regional and national events
- 1 special song “Un Coro Di Un Milione”
- UDUM high level symphonic piece by Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Luca Lagash (Collettivo OP) and Silvio Morais
- UDUM monumental sculpture by Morgana Orsetta Ghini (Collettivo OP)
- UDUM Manifesto by Alessandro Cremonesi (Collettivo OP)
- UDUM inox water bottle for trekking and traveling
- UDUM technological platform connected to water bottle
- 1 map of water sources and waterways
- presentation of the project at COP26 in Glasgow
- presentation of the project at the TEDx Riesi
- 1 performance by the Children Choir from the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in the Pejo 3000 glacier
- 1 performance by Luca Lagash (Collettivo OP) at the sunrise in the Pejo 3000 glacier, in the place where now the new mountain hut has been built (not more available today)
All these elements have been implemented to contribute to bringing a sense of belonging to local communities but also to engage tourists in labs and events which were devoted to highlight the urgent need for attitudes’ change and transformation of behavior. Art products are also designed to start regenerative processes which can contribute to restore the feeling of belonging through reconnecting people with water.
Actions have been targeted to inter-generational audiences and always considered community building as an important dimension. Because of this, artists lived for a long period in strict connection with local people and opened the dialogue with institutions and stakeholders.
UDUM is an original project, designed on a specific vision. Technology and Philosophy, as well as Science and Art, go hand in hand. Actually, the project aimed to bring people beyond their standard and prejudicial ways of thinking with the objectives to break their comfort zone and to help them to see beyond limits with new eyes, to change their mindset. Outside there, it is not only climate change matters, but wars, social politics and policies, economic systems which regard all of us and depend on our position and choices. UDUM calls for a sense of responsibility going through Art and simple messages. Water (glaciers, rivers, springs, ways) becomes the “simple” natural driver, music the means, sculpture the place to teach and learn about the possibility we all have to change things, starting from changing ourselves.
The location chosen for the project was highly symbolic and forced both project partners and users to face complexity immediately. This wanted to be a clear message about the necessity to co-design and tell a different story, made of strength but also opening the possibility for high level results.
The technological platform which allows the symphonic piece ’s breaking down into single notes and its reassembling by people, is a unique innovation which is bringing together communities’ needs, fears, desires and give space for collaborative-multiperspective solutions and visions.
The gamification process linked to the water bottles and shared in labs with schools, meetings with public administrations and entrepreneurs, events with local communities, facilitated the dialogue on complex uncomfortable issues and gave children the role of protagonists in imagining a more sustainable and collaborative future.
UDUM is based on a simple concept:
one person = one note < --- > one million notes = one million persons
The methodology UDUM adopted to reach the largest number of people possible, was by co-design and co-produce simple and direct means such as music, water bottles, sources and waterways’ trekking paths and maps.
The gamification strategy behind the notes’ unlocking has also a multiple purpose:
rise curiosity and push people to buy the water bottle and to discover their special note through the QR code
create a virtual community in the platform who shares similar values and can promote, together, bigger and bigger attention on hot topics such as climate change, water and glaciers' reduction
attract the attention to the water bottle’s usage and the plastic-free approach
The new chapter of UDUM (started in autumn 2022 and lasting until 2025) is adding a further key.
The concept now evolved into:
one person = one seed = one note < --- > one million notes = one millions trees = one million persons
The methodology UDUM adopted is already connecting organizations, universities, public and private stakeholders to work together to push on one side energy communities and on the other side CO2 stocking through tree-planting actions.
In autumn 2022, Accademia Teatro alla Scala has already launched its second chapter of UDUM in the Mediterranean area with a special focus on Sicily. The new phase is focusing on the desertification process, on Energy Communities and CO2 stocking. The process is now be slightly different:
1. scientific data about energy/desertification process will be collected from at least 6 Energy Communities and the University of Messina, Palermo and Catania
2. data will be elaborated and turned into physical shapes and to become artistic tools which can be used by schools to produce music. Tools will be 3D printed by using bioplastic produced from the waste from the Messina beer processing
3. creative labs are under organization with schools from all Sicilian provinces. A relationship was established with Conservatories to explore ancient local music instruments
4. data, outputs from school labs and results from Conservatories’ research will constitute inputs and inspiration to compose a new symphonic piece, telling of desertification but also of circular economy, economic redistribution, energy saving and sense of community
5. the new symphonic piece will be broken down into single notes and each note will be connected to a seed/tree
6. when planting the tree, the user will release the note and by the technological platform, the complete music will be slightly recomposed
7. children from the Accademia Teatro La Scala will give voice to present and future forests
The new UDUM project counts on a bigger partnership with the Fondazione di Messina, Isola Impresa Sociale, Cultural FARM, public and private stakeholders from all Sicily. The national partnership includes now Fondazione di Comunità di Pistoia (Tuscany), Fondazione Sylva (Puglia) and it is paving the ground for a joined UDUM third chapter. Finally, UDUM is getting more and more european. A Creative Europe project proposal which starts from the verified model and enlarges the actions to other 6 EU Countries.
In UDUM, Environment, Art and Technology came together thanks to the active role of the Children Choir from the Accademia Teatro alla Scala and of the Collettivo OP. This happened in the frame of the Alps glaciers, during COVID19 times. The local action was aimed to put a bigger attention and sense of responsibility about water, glaciers and climate change at a global level. The Val di Sole constituted a smaller pilot area to manage the new format, test and assess it, then improve it to get a solid product to be toured and replicated in different locations at the national and international level.
The Valley itself got a series of benefits from the project which turned out to be useful on a wider scale. The presence of the Teatro alla Scala, of the Collettivo OP stimulated the interest and curiosity of citizens and tourists while pushing administrations, communities and stakeholders to interact with artists. This attracted the attention of regional and national media and increased the visibility of the area and of its plastic-free virtuous vision.
The successful impact and the interesting number of produced outputs pushed the Province of Trento to improve its governance about plastic use in food and beverage packaging.
Finally, the possibility to create, locally, a multidisciplinary team formed by students from the music field, scientists, technologists and artists, gave them a unique voice and facilitated them to bring the message also at the COP26 in Glasgow, in their “new role” of change-makers.
