What role can public art play in constituting the experience of a place? For fifteen years, Mili Romano has curated ‘Heart of Stone’, a series of multidisciplinary interventions in the town of Pianoro, in the province of Bologna. Morphologically transformed by redevelopment processes imposed from above, this small village, already profoundly affected by the events of the Second World War, has found an opportunity for social aggregation and resistance within public art. This is the story of a progressive, personal shift from theoretical research on literature and urban anthropology to creative action within the city, realised through collective and participatory design practices.
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