A series of dynamic communal spaces installed for a few weeks in the garden of Padiglione Chiaravalle: Macchine da festa (Party Machines) is an environment designed by the architectural duo Lemonot and artist Luca Boffi, together with those who inhabit this transdisciplinary space every day.
The project begins with a journey that started in 2023 with the traveling bakery of Madre Project: a mobile artisanal bakery run by Panificio Davide Longoni in a 30-square-meter container, involving students from all over Italy.
For Fuorisalone 2025, the garden of Padiglione Chiaravalle hosts two of these experimental platforms: one container dedicated to baking and another exploring the alchemy of fermented cooking. The project also adds a performative element: a picnic table that will be built and transported by eight invited participants between the two containers, hosting participatory festivities and community dinners.
The “Macchine da festa” function as spaces of gathering, exchange, and connection, where leisure time and learning time blend together. They form a gentle system, a group of bodies suspended in mid-air across the territory, adapting to it with their modularity rather than altering it. In this context, cooking becomes a universal language, and conviviality a form of gentle resistance. The exhibition object is a meeting point, an opportunity for dialogue among the communities that inhabit and cross the Chiaravalle neighborhood.
BIO
Terzo Paesaggio is a non-profit organization founded in the Chiaravalle neighborhood. It curates, creates, promotes, and assembles urban regeneration projects with a cultural foundation, focusing particularly on marginalized areas, and places the theme of landscape as a relational space at its core.
Lemonot is a duo that combines spatial and relational practices, working between London and Italy. Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri primarily focus on public spaces: they work between architecture and performative arts as tools to awaken, trigger, and celebrate the theatricality embedded in the everyday. Fellows of the Line European Architecture Platform, they collaborate with numerous cultural institutions, including METROPOLI, CAFx Copenhagen, DPR Barcelona, Architecture At The Edge-Galway, Three Rivers Bexley, BASE Milano, and the Venice Biennale. Both graduates of the Architectural Association, they have taught in Latin America, Bangkok, Vienna, and Stockholm. Sabrina is currently a Studio Master in the Foundation Course at the AA (London), and together they lead the Architectural Design Studio 7 at the Royal College of Art (London), exploring conviviality as a form of gentle resistance and spatial activism.
Luca Boffi is an artist and farmer. Through installation and performative interventions, his practice seeks to highlight the memories, needs, and narratives of natural and urban environments and their inhabitants. Starting from the study of the grid as an optical device, through which to measure, organize, and especially transform and reinvent the environment, Boffi’s research captures the mutual reciprocity between natural and artificial processes. In 2024, he won the PAC – Piano Arte Contemporanea with the project “Eridiano, il Po”, presented by Fondazione Un Paese, and in 2022 he won the Italian Council (XI edition) with the editorial project “Caro Campo. Diario di lavoro”. He has exhibited and collaborated with international institutions including: Forever is Now (Cairo, EG), Santa Paula Art Museum (USA), Domaine de Boisbuchet (FR), La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, IT), and La Triennale di Milano (IT).