Radical Care is an award-winning project under the call “Futura. Puglia for Equality – Third Edition”, promoted by the Regional Council of Puglia. It pursues the overarching goal of strengthening the presence of women within the collaborative ecosystem of artists and researchers at the Campo dei Giganti.

The general objective is to facilitate a collective and participatory process to rethink the future through care, with the specific aim of fostering contemporary artistic experimentation focused on the regeneration of landscape and memory. Women artists are the active protagonists of this path: through inter-artistic practices, site-specific actions, and pedagogical devices of shared memory, new narratives will be generated that intertwine individual and collective experience, a wounded landscape, and the possibilities of regeneration. The Campo dei Giganti thus becomes a living laboratory of counter-narratives – a place where memory is not passive preservation, but a tool for social and cultural transformation.

The project seeks to build systemic and inclusive mechanisms to enhance the role of women in shaping cultural and natural heritage, whether tangible or intangible. In this sense, Radical Care is also a political gesture: a way to promote ecological and social justice, participatory democracy, and new models of sustainability, in which nature, culture, and memory converge as living, generative practices. Feminine perspectives therefore emerge as central to creativity and to the material and immaterial regeneration of cultural heritage.

Radical Care addresses the need to concretely support the presence of women within the Campo dei Giganti ecosystem, through activities that value the work of the artists and researchers operating there.

The project unfolds along an inter-artistic and interdisciplinary framework, with actions that weave together body, memory, landscape, and counter-narratives.

Specifically, through co-funding, the project supports the following activities:
– a theatre workshop centred on the use of the body and memory within the landscape, led by Viviana Bovino of the company Residui Teatro (Spain), an organisation with solid experience in community-based processes and participatory performative practices;
– the residencies of artists Giulia Barone and Graziana Di Santo (with Fabrizio Bellomo) within the residential project Ombra;
– an audiovisual artistic residency curated by film director Chiara Stravato;
– the continuation of Loredana Biondo’s work, culminating in workshops and a site-specific presentation of the artwork Morphoblu.

The theoretical and methodological coordination of the project is led by Chiara Agagiù, adjunct lecturer in Intercultural Pedagogy at the University of Salento, and an expert in processes of subjectivation, cultural heritage, and inclusive educational practices.
All events, workshops, and artistic residencies are open to the public.

The artists work in synergy with the rural community, weaving relationships that will give shape to new collective narratives—capable of restoring dignity and voice to a marked yet living and resilient landscape.