The project

Build

your own city, participating in a great, potentially infinite construction game.

Invent

houses, theaters, museums, airports, schools, amusement parks… with simple game pieces, imagination and manual skills you can create anything!

Socialize

the city is the place where relationships are generated. Each inhabitant has a neighbor to get to know and with whom they can begin a constructive path in common.

Construction

La città infinita is a performance of constructive play that uses industrial waste to create and recreate urban spaces.
The “bricks” to build the city are polished and tactile wooden objects, of various shapes and sizes. With these game pieces and the children’s creativity, it is possible to design anything: their homes, large public works and above all roads that connect the participants, allowing the meeting and exchange of ideas between all, giving life to a potentially infinite game.
The great diversity of pieces plays an important role in the constructive game, increasing the potential for possible combinations and combinations, fueling fantasy and imagination in the design of the city.
Using the universal language of creativity and manual skills, each group of participants models their own infinite city, developing a unique and unrepeatable project.

Cooperation

La città infinita is a participatory performance, a collective work that takes its form dynamically through cooperation between all participants: children, young people and adults collaborate together to build a city according to the aspirations and abilities of each one.
The interaction of adults with children generates very exciting synergies. The creativity of children supported by the skills of adults can result in architectural projects and artistic installations of great visual impact.
La città infinita is a new way of experiencing things and relating to others, an innovative proposal to plan a common path together, without thinking about the final result, trusting in the intuition and the capacity that each one has to get involved and enter into an endless game.

Sustainability

La città infinita is a sustainable event. The construction materials made available to participants are exclusively industrial waste. Special waste, semi-worked and unfinished, little conditioned by previous uses and meanings, and which are offered to the free interpretation of the participants of the game. Materials that have lost their commercial value recover a new meaning and new values ??within the creative and cultural context of this performance. Through the game, a waste becomes a resource, finds new life and new functionalities. Children and young people, who by nature are inclined to live the experience without conditioning, contact the objects in an empathetic and emotional way, and transform their meaning, giving it a new one, whatever they themselves want to suggest. A simple play space that can teach, especially to the new generations, another way of caring for the environment and building the future. Because it is thanks to them that a true transformation of the society in which we live can continue.

The beginning of the game

The creative work begins with an introduction to the game.

The construction of the city begins from the most intimate and familiar place: the house. In this way, the participants discover the pieces of the game and begin to experience the city. To build their own house, a certain number of pieces can be chosen. This rule will facilitate the phase of exploring the materials and directs, especially children, towards a more attentive and profound selection of pieces.
Then, it is suggested that through roads, bridges, tunnels and motorways, the inhabitants of the city can meet, creating a path that unites them. Each one has a neighbor to get to know, with whom they share a territory and with whom they can begin to design a constructive path in common. Together they can decide which public works to build, an architecture at the service of all: a park, a cinema, a theatre, a school, a hospital… using all the material they need.

At this stage of the game, the city becomes a place of relationships, exchange and dialogue. The value of cooperation begins to circulate, to vibrate, gradually transforming the soul of the city and its inhabitants.
In no città infinita ever made there has ever been a need to represent characters, since the city is made up of constructions and not people; the true inhabitants are the people who build it.

The stage space

The stage space is simple and basic, but its visual impact is very strong. The performance play space is delimited by the construction material. From 500 to 1000 kg of small “bricks”, placed inside the containers aligned around the construction surface. An essential element of the performance are the “city lights”: a very long LED light hose that extends across the entire playing surface, forming soft curves and giving the space a warm atmosphere. To achieve a stronger visual impact with these lights, the space is partially darkened. On the walls of the space, clouds in constant movement are projected that symbolize the infinite sky of the city. The performance atmosphere is enriched with a musical accompaniment that isolates from external noises, facilitates the concentration of the participants and invites to the rhythm. All these aesthetic elements contribute to creating a relaxed, constructive environment that many children define as magical.

History

Since 2008, the infinite city has built hundreds of cities, each with its own identity. During the various stages, the performance has transformed people and spaces thanks to the values ??it works with and the positive experiences it generates. It has been in museums, schools, festivals and European projects but, above all, it has made thousands of families, children and young people build and cooperate.
The first nucleus of the infinite city was born in Italy from the hands of its creator, Mao Fusina. To this day, the performance has already traveled to prestigious places such as the Triennale and the Museo del ‘900 (Milan), the Bimpa (children’s museum in Palermo), the Festival della Creatività (Florence), the Tocatì Festival (Verona) and continues to travel.
In 2014 the performance arrives in Spain thanks to the work of Roberta Genova. La città infinita has begun to circulate and build relationships in the province of Barcelona, ??letting hundreds of children and their families play, spreading its principles and values ??even in schools and universities. La città infinita continues to grow with the desire to discover new territories and new people eager to get involved in building and spreading its values ??and principles.

Values ??and educational principles of the infinite city

The affirmation of the right to play.
The proposal of sustainability to new generations through the use and reuse of industrial waste.
The reactivation of a collective dialogue on the issues of the city and active citizenship, particularly soliciting the contribution of children and young people.
The manual, constructive and emotional participation of everyone: there is no specific age to play the infinite city.
The promotion of constructive and cooperative games, capable of fostering dialogue and the exchange of knowledge and skills.