House of Songwriters
Competition, Winning Proposal, Genoa, 2021
Supervision: Regione Liguria, MIB
Client/Organization: IRE Liguria
IRE Liguria: Marco Segni, Teodora Buzzanca, Valeria Mangini
Curators: Massimo Bernardini, Francesco De Nicola, Guido Harari, Renato Tortarolo
Scientific Committee: Dori Ghezzi, Ilaria Cavo, Paolo Masini, Luca Parodi, Margherita Rubino
Songwriters: Enzo Avitabile, Claudio Baglioni, Franco Battiato, Lucio Battisti, Edoardo Bennato, Samuele Bersani, Umberto Bindi, Angelo Branduardi, Alberto Camerini, Riccardo Cocciante, Carmen Consoli, Paolo Conte, Lucio Dalla, Pino Daniele, Fabrizio De André, Francesco De Gregori, Teresa De Sio, Sergio Endrigo, Eugenio Finardi, Dario Fo, Ivano Fossati, Giorgio Gaber, Rino Gaetano, Enzo Gragnaniello, Ivan Graziani, Francesco Guccini, Enzo Jannacci, Lorenzo Cherubini Jovanotti, Bruno Lauzi, Luciano Ligabue, Mogol, Gianna Nannini, Gino Paoli, Ron, Claudio Rocchi, Vasco Rossi, Enrico Ruggeri, Alan Sorrenti, Luigi Tenco, Roberto Vecchioni, Antonello Venditti, Renato Zero
Surface: 4250sm
The permanent museum of the Casa dei Cantautori will be housed inside the former Abbey of S. Giuliano, in Genoa. The new museum adapts the original spaces in order to host a selection of the most important Italian songwriters (among others, Fabrizio De Andrè, Luigi Tenco, Lucio Dalla, Paolo Conte, Franco Battiato, Ivano Fossati). The project seeks a coexistence between interactive media and more traditional objects (manuscripts, memorabilia, etc.), through an installation that integrates the various heterogeneous contents selected by the curators. The specificity of the place has influenced the design choices, both in aesthetic and material terms, favoring sober, almost “monastic” furnishings, easily removable, made with natural and recyclable materials, chosen, also and above all, for their acoustic characteristics.
