One container for bread-making, another exploring the alchemy of fermented cuisine. And a picnic table, built and carried by eight guests, designed to host feasts and communal dinners.
Macchine da Festa is a project by the architecture duo Lemonot and artist Luca Boffi, conceived together with the people who bring Padiglione Chiaravalle (Terzo Paesaggio) to life every day. These “party machines” function as meeting spaces but also as platforms for exchange and connection, where leisure and learning merge. Here, food transformation becomes a universal language, and conviviality a form of gentle resistance. The exhibition object turns into an encounter—a moment of dialogue between the diverse realities that inhabit and move through Chiaravalle.
Featuring Davide Longoni, philosopher of bread and founder of Panificio Davide Longoni (Milan), Casa Mosca, and Verdiana Nicolò, former student of MadreProject, Scuola del Pane e dei Luoghi.
This event is part of Performing Architecture ↗, a city-wide festival running from April 3–13 across five neighborhoods in Milan’s south side, tracing a path between architecture and performing arts. Five districts, five visions—a laboratory of experimentation where architecture becomes body, sound, ritual, and refuge. A collective exercise in rethinking urban living, turning spaces into places of encounter, gesture, and listening.
Performing Architecture is a project born from the collaboration between BASE Milano and DOPO? and is one of the winning projects of the Festival Architettura, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture to support and enhance contemporary architecture in Italy.