{"id":10007219,"date":"2019-08-29T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/?p=10007219"},"modified":"2019-11-15T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:31:23","slug":"favara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/favara\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cbusiness name\u201d established in Favara: Spab &#8211; Good Deed Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>After the Museum of Architecture for children and the Countless Cities project, a new \u201cbusiness name\u201d comes to life at Farm Cultural Park: Spab \u2013 \u201cSociet\u00e0 per Azioni Buone) (Italian standing for \u201cthe Good Deed Corporation\u201d).<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Offering the historical centre of Favara a new life and new decorum by committing themselves and devoting a lot of effort was not enough. Nor did they think it would be enough to create an open-air gallery of contemporary art, which every year attracts thousands of people coming from all over the world to the small centre in the area of Agrigento, becoming indeed a uniting centre and animating force of the cultural revival in an entire village. Even setting a <\/span><span lang=\"DE\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/sou\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">school of architecture for children<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">with the aim to open new horizons was not sufficient<\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10006801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10006801\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10006801\" src=\"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/florinda-e-andrea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/florinda-e-andrea.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/florinda-e-andrea-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/florinda-e-andrea-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/florinda-e-andrea-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/florinda-e-andrea-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/florinda-e-andrea-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10006801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Bartoli and Florinda Saieva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andrea Bartoli <span lang=\"EN-GB\">and Florinda Saieva had to take a step further. Hence, they set up \u201c<b>Countless Cities<\/b>\u201d. A biennial festival of cities worldwide that, between <b>June 29<sup>th<\/sup> and October 27<sup>th<\/sup><\/b>, gives an overall picture of urban realities. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Aim is to understand what they are about, how they work and what makes us love these places that are lived in by more than half of the world\u2019s entire population. <\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10006765\" src=\"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/countless.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/countless.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/countless-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/countless-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/countless-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/countless-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/countless-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since its set up nine years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/farm-cultural-park-borgo-decaduto-sesta-meraviglia-nel-mondo-dellarte-contemporanea\/\">Farm Cultural Park<\/a> has been representing a fly-wheel for the urban regeneration of Favara in its most real and concrete form. Numbed awareness was reawakened, including the one of young people that has resigned themselves and even the 60 plus population, which had always been convinced that nothing could change.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10007219 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-5.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-5.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-5-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-5-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-7.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-7.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-7.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-7-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-7-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-8.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-8.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-8-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-8-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-8-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-8-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-9.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-9.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-9.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-9-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-9-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra-9-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra7.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra7.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra7.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra7-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra7-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra6.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra6.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra6-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mostra6-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The biennial festival is structured in several stands located in the \u201cSette Cortili\u201d (Seven Courtyards), Palazzo Miccich\u00e9 and Palazzo Cafisi. Architect David Adjaye is the curator of the stand dedicated to 53 capitals of the African continent hosted in the FARM XL area. The other stands feature exhibitions dedicated to various cities, including Addis Ababa, Asmara, New York, Chicago and Tbilisi<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10006797\" src=\"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/resilienr-room.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/resilienr-room.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/resilienr-room-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/resilienr-room-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/resilienr-room-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/resilienr-room-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/resilienr-room-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">At Palazzo Miccich\u00e9, one can immerse oneself into the cities of Beirut and Luxor, as well as Berlin, Birmingham, Detroit, Douala, Koniakow, Nairobi and Tel Aviv. This are is also dedicated to the exhibitions of\u00a0 \u201cAugmented cities\u201d, \u201cThe Sound of Resilience\u201d, \u201cMatera, Architectures of Shame\u201d and other artistic installations<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Furthermore, Palazzo Cafisi hosts the rather political section of the biennial festival, including its three exhibitions \u201cDesign break \u2013 Beijing \/ Suzhou \/ Shenzen\u201d, \u201cGarbage City \u2013 Cairo\u201d and \u201cGrand Tunis. Cities Stratification: The Heterotopic Vision of a City\u201d<\/span>.<br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Three different interpretations that interact. \u00a0The shared interpretation can give rise to an overall view that allows us to understand towards what direction we are moving, what unifies and what diversifies different realities<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10006799\" src=\"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farm-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farm-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farm-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farm-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farm-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farm-1-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">And as if that wasn\u2019t enough, a \u201c<b>Societ\u00e0 per Azioni Buone<\/b> (SPAB)\u201d (<b><i>Good deed corporation<\/i><\/b>) will be established in Favara on September 25<sup>th<\/sup>, aiming at turning every citizen into an investor of the city he or she lives in, thus being actively involved in a radical change<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10006757\" src=\"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bartoli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bartoli.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bartoli-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bartoli-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bartoli-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bartoli-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bartoli-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere are 500 million euros in bank deposits just in Favara\u201d<\/em> \u2013 says Andrea Bartoli (right side on the above picture). \u201c<em>What do the banks do? They take your money and use it to do stuff elsewhere. However, we want to develop long-term projects for our town. Over the last five years, in times of crisis, more than 20 million euros have been spent in the historical centre as a result of the \u201cFarm Cultural\u201d project. Over the next ten years, we would like this to become a collective enterprise, with every single citizen owning a small piece of the city\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Info on the biennial festival can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.countlesscities.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Museum of Architecture for children and the Countless Cities project, a new \u201cbusiness name\u201d comes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10006760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[294,382,245,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10007219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10007228,"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007219\/revisions\/10007228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10006760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10007219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10007219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10007219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}