Lungomare is a platform for design and cultural production. They carry out commissions and initiate artistic projects. In collaboration with artists, clients and other experts they develop strategies and concepts that focus on finding the appropriate form for the content to be conveyed. Their work encompasses communication, exhibition design, spatial concepts and curatorial projects. They create meeting places and experiential spaces in the urban context and invite artists to work with them to develop thematic and site specific projects. Lungomare operates in a variety of different spaces: public and private, virtual and print, urban and curated.
In each of these spaces, whether physical, virtual or conceptual, they create the potential for exchange and discussion, always putting socio-political issues front and centre. Their team combines knowledge from art and design in theory and practice. Lungomare‘s working processes involve dialogue with artists, scientists and experts from all walks of life; this allows them to explore new perspectives and collectively negotiate the spaces they design. Lungomare works with private clients, public bodies, theatres, museums, publishers and societies.
They understand design as the communication of content within a specific context. Their design process might culminate in an exhibition, a website or a book. On another occasion it might lead to an urban intervention, a conversation or a shared evening meal. What these formats all have in common is that each addresses an audience of various voices, so they all start new dialogues. Lungomare conducts research and undertakes studies on current affairs and issues in the city where they work. This means they are responsive to social requirements and the need to share ideas, experiences and differences. And Lungomare physically embodies this attitude: their premises on the outskirts of Bolzano-Bozen are a meeting place that is open to all.
Lungomare Gasthaus, Temporary Trattoria by ConstructLAB / exyzt, 2013. Courtesy Lungomare. © Daniel Mazza
To celebrate the tenth-year anniversary of its founding, the project space Lungomare opened the Lungomare Gasthaus as a temporary space for thought and action. A one-month program consisting of discussions, conversations and workshops, a series of spatial interventions, a film program and a series of public performances and actions in the city of Bolzano.
School of verticality / OVERTIME happening, Sophie Krier, 2018. Courtesy Lungomare. © Jörg Oschmann
SCHOOL OF VERTICALITY is a public program for listening to and learning situational knowledge. Where on earth do we belong? What already forgotten forms of life and work can we visualize and reinvent together? Each chapter interweaves different biographies (human, animal, region) and times (geology, history, biology, dreams and memories).
Co-Carts, orizzontale, 2020. Courtesy Lungomare. © Claudia Corrent
Co-Carts are pop-up devices, built to be manipulated and transformed, to enter into synergy with each other and with their context and to amplify the relationship between the inhabitants and the city. 2020
qualcosanonva / etwasläuftfalsch, Poster campaign, 2021. Courtesy Lungomare. © Daniel Mazza
qualcosanonva / etwasläuftfalsch, Poster campaign, 2021. Courtesy Lungomare. © Daniel Mazza
YOU ARE BUT YOU ARE NOT, An audio-guide about borders and hospitality by Kolar Aparna and Beatrice Catanzaro, 2017. Courtesy Lungomare. © Claudia Corrent