Credits

Future Heritage Lab (FHL) is an interdisciplinary research and art/design group at MIT led by Prof. Azra Aksamija that explores how cultural traditions can be dynamically preserved and reimagined to strengthen social bonds and community resilience. Working at the intersection of art, design, and research, FHL develops creative interventions that connect heritage practices with contemporary concerns of ecological sustainability, pluralism, and social justice. The lab specializes in collaborative methodologies that bridge cultural divides, generating innovative approaches to heritage conservation that span multiple formats, including textile art, public space interventions, and community-based installations. FHL conceptualizes heritage not as static artifacts but as evolving cultural processes, providing communities with creative tools to address complex societal and environmental challenges while cultivating optimism, collective agency, and visions for an inclusive future.

T12 Lab association and research agency has its headquarters in Milan in Via dei Transiti 12, it carries out projects of urban-environmental redevelopment and social inclusion, relational design and public space involving communities, especially the most fragile ones who live in peripheral contexts. It collaborates with universities and research centers, and produces social design objects with high-quality industrial waste through the training-work of deaf people, historically present in Lombard manufacturing. T12 Lab has won many calls for tenders and awards for its projects, since 2022 it has been Creative Pioneer for the Moleskine Foundation.

We are a Milan-based crew of musicians, designers, photographers, seamstresses, illustrators, architects, and lawyers. Driven by the desire to be together, we collaborate to nurture a sense of community as an antidote to individualism and isolation. We see play and music as accessible tools for collective learning and solidarity.

Project for People carries out international cooperation projects in the fields of health, education, and economic development. In Italy, it combats poverty—particularly educational poverty—through volunteering, global citizenship education, and cultural initiatives aimed at integration and the promotion of the different cultures present in urban outskirts. Using tools such as networking, communication, and community engagement, the organization has led initiatives in environmental sustainability and urban regeneration in collaboration with schools across the country. These efforts foster social cohesion and youth empowerment, while promoting collaboration among individuals, groups, institutions, and local services.