We take care of cultural heritage, providing local areas not only with resources but also with the experience and skills to carry out projects with our partners, defined by medium- and long-term strategies, aimed at promoting a sustainable vision of culture from an economic, social and environmental point of view.
Our work is divided into various areas of intervention.
Preserving beauty
The role of the Culture Goal’s Preserving Beauty Mission is to conserve cultural heritage, in the broadest sense of the term, from physical architecture and works of art, to the memory preserved by archives and libraries, the landscape and the intangible heritage of habits, customs and beliefs.
We develop experimental forms of partnership with public and private bodies, to encourage joint investment opportunities and launch innovative interventions. One of our most important collaborations takes place within the Compagnia Group itself, and involves Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura, an FCSP auxiliary body.
Preserving beauty also means boosting the strength of cultural assets as premium attributes of the catchment area, to trigger development, attract skills and foster a fair society.
Conservation
We promote a culture of conservation of cultural heritage based on knowledge, prevention and research aimed at developing systemic change in how heritage is protected. We are guided by the strategic principle of preventive conservation and scheduled maintenance of cultural heritage assets.
This is why we promote awareness-raising campaigns and long-term conservation planning strategies, with a view to reducing recourse to emergency interventions, as established in the PRIMA call for proposals (encompassing prevention, research, investigation, maintenance and listening in relation to cultural heritage).
Landscape
We contribute to the development of critical thinking about the landscape, defined as the result of the transformations brought about by the widespread culture of a community. We do this by supporting experimental projects capable of yielding good conservation and energy transition practices and effective evaluation models.
Our work on protecting the landscape is also based on a long-term view, involving framework agreements and other arrangements aimed at road-testing innovative solutions for managing issues associated with the relationship between conservation and the green transition. As part of this, we help road-test the Regional Landscape Plan in the area surrounding Ivrea and the Alta Valle Bormida, thanks to a partnership protocol with the Region of Piedmont and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Memory
Preserving beauty also involves safeguarding memory by supporting archives and cultural institutes that promote local historical knowledge, so that it can be passed on to future generations. This also means supporting system-oriented projects in the technological, managerial and organisational fields for archives and libraries, to be made available to all the players in the catchment area.
Our most significant collaboration is with Fondazione 1563, focused on conserving and harnessing the cultural value of the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo Historical Archive, which covers four and a half centuries of history in over two linear kilometres of documentation. Involving inventory creation, digital publication and dissemination, the project has also served as a vehicle for building up a substantial portfolio of skills in the application of technology to archiving and historical research.