Monumental Arboretum for the Historical Network and Knowledge-Management of innovative multifactory and artistic spaces between Italy and Switzerland
The project increases the attractiveness of the border areas by creating integrated cross-border spaces characterized by the universal language of art and beauty. The realization of the Kengo Kuma Museum is the background of the project and defines it. The museum will give house to the works of the Jewish artist Karl Schmid, still unclassified to date. The initiative converts the two areas located on the Italian-Swiss border into a widespread cross-border Cultural Pole for the artistic enhancement of the cultural, handicraft and landscape heritage of the Alps. The border itself increase its landscape value and becomes an open balcony on the two lakes and a living historical testimony of the continuous and lacerating confrontation between men and cultures, witnessed by the Cadorna Line and the Jewish escape passages.