We are a not-for-profit organization leveraging creativity to bring people together, with care and joy.
The Change
We Are Shaping
Our Story
Our story started from an unconscious and confused impulse to express ourselves. It was 2014 and we were in the middle of our teenage years. Thanks to the voice and encouraging support of many people who, with affection and generosity, legitimised and pushed our desire, that impulse turned into a small school competition of short films made by local high school students. The years passed. Our lives and our geographies changed, together with the individual baggage of experiences, aspirations and ideas that each of us brought into the voluntary effort of the Association. So the projects changed with us, and the processes that led us to imagine and realise them changed as well. It's been a chaotic and wonderful journey, and still it is. A journey made of growing awareness, mistakes, sleepless nights, great disappointments and great satisfactions. Today, this journey has brought us to a serene awareness of our action. We have the privilege of being able to consider Quindici19 as an experimental space, a place where we dedicate voluntary energy to craft our hopes and imaginaries for new and exciting futures.
Our Spark
Why do we do it? The answers have often changed, but there is one that has always accompanied us through all these years: we do it because we like being together. This simple and naïve answer is the founding basis of our processes and of our action. We believe that it is in being together that we return to being human, that we learn care and create true, affective and transformative contact. So, that's who we are. We are a group of friends who dedicate part of their time to imagining and creating spaces in which people can be together. We are serious, without needing to take ourselves too seriously.
Our Action
Today, we focus on cultural design. We conceive and bring projects to life — co-created with our partners — exploring the intricated relationship between creativity and social change. We reach out to young creatives. Our aim is to offer spaces of care to every voice with something to say, valuing the positive impact it can have on the community. We combine attention to content with awareness of methods. Our goal is always to place people and their relational connections at the center, striving to create a new culture of mutual care.
Together
Human beings being human together. We believe that, as global citizens, we urgently need to re-humanize the spaces we inhabit and the relationships we build. We believe that this process of humanization begins with the creation of relational contact, affection, and care. We are developing our own approach: the Caring Space Methodology. At the heart of this methodology lies the emotional and affective effort that we, first and foremost, bring into the projects and spaces we create. We believe that affection is the true transformative force within cultural initiatives. We therefore strive to do everything with care. Our organizational system is free from hierarchies and pre-assigned roles: individual availability and mutual trust allow each person's nature to emerge, stepping into organizational roles and functions that align with personal desires and aspirations. With our partners, we foster collaborative action. We believe in co-design and in the cross-pollination of goals and practices, and this is what we encourage both in the realization of individual projects and in the creation of networks for exchange and collaboration.
