On October 27-28, ArtePollino Association, together with Basilicata region, took part in the Urbanpromo 2010, an important urban planning exhibition which returned for its VII Edition by now.

During the event, which was part of the Giorgio Cini Foundation and took place in the enchanting scenery of the San Giorgio Maggiore Isle, it has been given the Urbanistica 2010 prize, a prestigious national award promoted by URBANISTICA, the memorable review of the INU
(National Institute of Urban planning).

In this Edition of 2010 the Arte Pollino project has been awarded for the Balance of interests section, because it represents an innovative project for the national territory that started the enhancement of the Pollino National Park on the Lucania side, thanks to some contemporary arts interventions able to determine a balance in the growth and in the economical and socio-cultural development of the area.

On the occasion there was also the conference: Contemporary Arts in the public spaces and in the Landscape, at the presence of Francesco Pesce, the executive of the Programming and Management Control Office for the Basilicata Region, who explained the Arte Pollino project, and the Ente Parco del Pollino Director, Annibale Formica, who illustrated the park, showing its naturalistic riches, its environmental peculiarities and its distinctive cultural values.

During the event, which was part of the Giorgio Cini Foundation and took place in the enchanting scenery of the San Giorgio Maggiore Isle, it has been given the Urbanistica 2010 prize, a prestigious national award promoted by URBANISTICA, the memorable review of the INU
(National Institute of Urban planning).

In this Edition of 2010 the Arte Pollino project has been awarded for the Balance of interests section, because it represents an innovative project for the national territory that started the enhancement of the Pollino National Park on the Lucania side, thanks to some contemporary arts interventions able to determine a balance in the growth and in the economical and socio-cultural development of the area.

On the occasion there was also the conference: Contemporary Arts in the public spaces and in the Landscape, at the presence of Francesco Pesce, the executive of the Programming and Management Control Office for the Basilicata Region, who explained the Arte Pollino project, and the Ente Parco del Pollino Director, Annibale Formica, who illustrated the park, showing its naturalistic riches, its environmental peculiarities and its distinctive cultural values.

Undoubtedly, the most important moment of the experience was the press conference about the presentation of the catalogue and the documentary, which took place in the room of the Ceiling at the presence of Alberto Versace, the chairman of the "Sensi Contemporanei" Coordinating Committee of MISE, Francesco Pesce, the manager of the Unit for the Evaluation of public investment in the Basilicata Region, Valerio Giambersio, a member of the Unit for the Evaluation of public investment in the Basilicata Region, Aldo Colella, an Arte Pollino consultant and Gaetano Lofrano, the Arte Pollino chiefman.

This experience was really interesting for the audience and it was a great satisfaction for the ArtePollino association to take part in a prestigious exhibition as this one.

The chiefman Lofrano emphasized, besides the presentation of the initiatives which have been carried out by the association for 2 years and the new projects for the future, the aspect that may be considered as the most important one of an innovative process as ArtePollino: the involvement and the participation of the territory, which are essential to the success of a so ambitious project. The association represented and represents the intermediary between the institutions and the territory,
because it consists of young people that chose to live on the Pollino, people who know the territory and want to contribute to the cultural and social growth, with the perspective of a real development.

Until now, the path of the association has been positive and it gave great satisfaction, this is proved by the fact that the memberships has increased since the 2008, the year in which it was found, to this day.

The chiefman emphasized the way in which ArtePollino was not a project from above, but an "horizontal" project, which used a methodology based on the sharing and the involvement of the
local community. "I think that to better understand the importance of the territory's involvement in a so ambitious project, it is useful to repeat the words that Doctor Versace told during the conference,
that is to say that for the success of a project, innovative ideas are not enough, the main thing is the presence of people who support and carry out them. ArtePollino Association includes excellent resources that are ready and determined to support these ideas and keep promoting arts on the territory, because it is considered as an important element for its growth".