Lumen Social Light

The Lumen Social light laboratories had a strong impact on the whole local community, with workshops held throughout the city of Matera (involving associations, artisan shops, hospitals, museums, etc.). We work and co-create with local community and, especially, with 8 schools, 3 hospitals and 4 associations with a strong social inclusion approach. In order to organise this initiative, implemented in coordination with the Basilicata Region, we involved a high number of grass-root associations and we signed agreements with relevant regional stakeholders, such as ANCI (Network of the all the municipalities of the region), the Network of National Museum in Basilicata with 17 municipalities. At regional scale, about 6000 people were the protagonists of the Lumen Social Light Project to make “sustainable bag lights”, an innovative model with a solar panel integrated to recharge batteries. Through bag light self-creation laboratories, temporary and permanent citizens can make light bags for their own light. The light bags can be made and taken away by their makers, not just for the opening ceremony but for the whole year, creating a road that gives a new interpretation to the concept of light and the value of the dark. All these activities and laboratories have been developed involving also the Region and the Municipalities