{"id":4013,"date":"2026-07-09T13:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/?page_id=4013"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:04:43","slug":"il-progetto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/en\/chi-siamo\/il-progetto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-1-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-1-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-1-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-1-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-1-600x315.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La Citt\u00e0 dell'Utopia was founded to promote territorial activation of local development and, at the same time, to always keep a window open to the world. Concretely, it is a laboratory-home open to all associations, movements, informal groups, in short, all entities from the neighborhood, the city, and beyond, who wish to share an experience of dialogue and concrete, collective work on the construction of social and cultural alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The activities carried out within the project therefore have the characteristic of being the sum of everyone's contributions and having a strong international dimension as added value. The main tools for this process are:<br>the <strong>opportunity creation<\/strong>, which is the construction of containers, proposals, and spaces that enable participation<br>The <strong>laboratory<\/strong>, or an open, flexible, dynamic space that can value and transform individual and group proposals and contributions into action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-600x315.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La Citt\u00e0 dell'Utopia, also known as Casale Volpi or Casale Garibaldi, has a long and interesting history. Its construction dates back to the second half of the 18th century. The building was a trattoria, founded by Augusto Volpi, an anarchist and anti-fascist, as a place for social gathering. Later, during World War II, the farmhouse was a refuge for resistance fighters. Legend has it that one night, the hero of Italian unification, Giuseppe Garibaldi, slept within the walls of this farmhouse, which was located in the rural area, outside the walls of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, in the last 20 years, it has been renovated and adapted to become a space for the municipality of Rome where various social activities can be carried out to network people from the San Paolo-Ostiense neighborhood and migrants at risk of social exclusion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn a little more about the roots of La Citt\u00e0 dell\u2019Utopia with \u201cSogni di carta,\u201d the newsletter\u2014the \u201cfuel of the neighborhood\u2019s cultural life\u201d\u2014which aimed to collect its \u201cdreams, desires, experiences, requests, and complaints.\u201d The cartoonist is Miguel, one of the first volunteers at the community center, who wanted to satirically depict the process of building La Citt\u00e0 dell\u2019Utopia. You can read more by clicking&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DEMOCRATICI-PDF.pdf\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Terrazza_cena-di-autofinanziamento-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4123\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500104075600517;width:514px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Terrazza_cena-di-autofinanziamento-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Terrazza_cena-di-autofinanziamento-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Terrazza_cena-di-autofinanziamento-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Terrazza_cena-di-autofinanziamento-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Terrazza_cena-di-autofinanziamento-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Terrazza_cena-di-autofinanziamento-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/casale2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/casale2.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.lacittadellutopia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/casale2-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Citt\u00e0 dell\u2019Utopia nasce per promuovere attivazione territoriale del sviluppo locale e, al tempo stesso, mantenere sempre una finestra aperta sul mondo. 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