Rione Sanità, Nápoles

“You cannot change the world, but you can do small things that can change someone’s life.”

This is one of Renzo Piano’s maxims, so when in 2013 he was appointed Senator for Life by the then Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, he did not hesitate to give his institutional position a practical role, turning his office at Palazzo Giustiniani into a laboratory to imagine, together with young architects, a future for disadvantaged areas. The project, baptized G124, is named after the room assigned to Piano in the Senate...[+]