The Project, desiderio, originates in an idea of multiethnic coexistence focusing on the need to listen to the voices of all the ethnic groups present in our region. The streetcar is the travelling microcosm of the big city and so has been chosen as the way of voicing this idea. Streetcars gather people of differing classes, origins, and political and social ties. A mosaic of mirrors entirely covers the outside of the streetcar. The mirrors reflect the streets and piazzas and so give off a suggestion of architecture in movement. Meanwhile, phosphorescent colours transform the inside of the streetcar into an unreal and dreamy place. There are real sculptures inside the streetcar. These are the men and women of a future. This is a future that is by now very near. They are like us but morphologically different. They have very long arms and their heads are oversized. These sixteen statues represent all the ethnic groups present on our territory. These people of the future interact with real travellers by speaking Piedmontese, Arabic, French, Italian, African languages, Chinese, and Occitan. A closed-circuit video system gives back the images of the city “magnified” the Turin of the year 4000. There are phosphorescent piazzas. There is a river, the Po, with silver waters. There is a basilica, the Gran Madre, that has been transformed into a mosque. There is a piazza, Piazza Vittorio, that has been given back its metaphysical nature.
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