Ai Lavio Condominio

In June 2023, as La Rivoluzione delle Seppie, we took part in ArchWeek 2023 in Milan with the exhibition "AI LAVIO CONDOMINIO", designed by Sara Ricciardi Studio and installed in the courtyard of a social housing complex on Corso 22 Marzo.

The exhibition aimed to narrate and embody the processes of HappyLab. focusing on the dynamics of community activation and spatial re-appropriation.
As a collective, we engaged directly with the residents through door-to-door actions and the creation of a temporary workshop site, where we co-constructed several of the exhibition elements together with the inhabitants. Over the course of four days, starting with a small group of young residents, we reactivated the courtyard—a previously underused and marginal space—and hosted a series of micro-events around the exhibition, co-curated with and by the community itself.
The project aligned with the Glocal Tools methodology developed by La Rivoluzione delle Seppie, which seeks to center the margins and foster relationships capable of reshaping the thresholds between public and private, central and peripheral.
As Ahmed (11), one of the young participants in HappyLab, aptly put it:
"It’s friends who make a home."
Whether at the margins or the center, it is always relationships that generate space.