Macrolotto Zero: A series of intervention live from Prato, Italy

More than 100 ethnicities coexist in the city of Prato (IT): its total population of 194,499 inhabitants counts 49,414 foreigners, including 28,156 Chinese residents (2020). Every Saturday @_lemonot will be streaming a series of site-specific interventions and interviews on how different cultures, communities, and religions live together in the complex Italian context. Located on the immediate western outskirts of the medieval centre, the Macrolotto Zero is a neighbourhood encapsulating much of the city’s debated cultural dynamism as well as a concrete metaphor of how cultural diversity has been struggling to find recognition as a positive aspect of global interconnectedness and of urban contemporaneity. Through the re-semantization of key iconographic items and forms of inhabiting the neighborhood, we want to use research in the public space and performative arts to interpret the making of specific yet shared identitarian traits as a form of urban care that stimulates transformative and imaginative capacity for residents, business owners and the rest of the citizens.