KARMA CLIMA was explicitly a project in which Artists proposed to co-design artworks in open dialogue with civil society.
This happened in ​​Ostana, at about 1,300 meters above sea level with a privileged view of the Monviso. The village, which at the beginning of the XX century had about 1200 inhabitants, like many other mountain villages, has seen an almost complete depopulation in the 80s. Today, Ostana is an example of territorial rebirth and a social laboratory, based on the enhancement of Alpine architecture, of the local culture - which historically includes the Occitan matrix, and of young people. It is ​​the only Italian Municipality selected, among 15 throughout Europe, as pilot case in the Smart Rural platform. Viso A Viso, Community Cooperative manages here today all public assets and proposes a new business model based on culture, which includes OSTANA RES the specific action of its smart strategy, presented in 2020 to the EU Commission, within which the project KARMA CLIMA took place and shape.
The experience has then continued in Paraloup, "sheltered from wolves" in Occitan, an alpine village located at 1360m in the municipality of Rittana in Valle Stura. The Borgata has welcomed shepherds and flocks for centuries and, during the Resistance, it was a place of transformation for about 200 twenty-year-olds who, peasant parties, students, artisans from all over Italy, transformed here into partisans and are who went down to the valley to fight for the liberation of Italy from Nazi-fascism, including Duccio Galimberti, Dante Livio Bianco, Giorgio Bocca and Nuto Revelli.
And it found a strategic third place in Piozzo, where Teo Muso has created the famous brand Baladin and, also through music (thousands of concerts took place in its circus headquarters) has been able to spread from a local dimension to an international one.
All artistic events after the Artistic Residences moved in the same direction: talk, think, learn and improve with people.