Participated anamorphic art against the suburb degradation in contemporary cities

This paper presents the project and the making of an art installation for the Piscinola subway station, based on a specific projection method, called anamorphosis, whose aim is a participative mass action, to involve local residents through the collaboration of their children. We strongly believe that art can be an instrument for education and social developing. The main aim of this project was to unlock the current situation, in which urban degradation generates social degradation, that eventually evolves in vandalism, causing the fear of investing in projects that could be quickly destroyed by violent actions. Instead of joining the hopeless whiners, who reduce the impossibility of an improvement to the lack of funds, we decided to make the degraded urban context a communicative and an experiential matter, transforming