Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation (FCSP)

Compagnia di San Paolo (CSP), one of the largest foundations in Europe, initiated Dédalo Vola, a community project that promotes a healthy lifestyle through cross-sectoral collaborations. Dédalo Vola activates a network of subjects that contribute to the development of a cultural well-being environment that generates health at the community level;
offer, through adequate communication, activities that generate health to the adults, and to citizens less involved in these activities; transform the hospital into an environment that proposes art and culture in its prevention and treatment paths; evaluate the effects on well-being and perceived health of the proposed cultural activities.
The proposed interventions are oriented towards the following cultural activities: museum experiences, reading experiences, active theater experiences, active music experiences, transformation of treatment spaces.

Compagnia di San Paolo (CSP), one of the largest foundations in Europe, initiated Verba Curant, a storytelling project implemented in healthcare settings. Writing and storytelling techniques are used in this project in the service of the health sector. Within Verba Curant project, the teachers of the Holden School help doctors and nurses of the Alessandria Hospital to encourage an empathetic relationship with patients thanks to the power of great stories.

Compagnia di San Paolo (CSP), one of the largest foundations in Europe, initiated Danzarte, a pilot project that aims to see a work of art through the body: an advanced research process dedicated to people potentially at risk of frailty. DanzArTe is a project that involves different fields: medical, IT, technological, performative and museum. Its objective is to transform the vision of the work of art into a tool for caring for the soul and the body.

Cultura di Base is one of the four pilot projects of the Cultural Well-being Lab promoted within Well Impact, an experimental initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation. On the thematic of culture for the humanization of places of care, Cultura di Base is a project of the Foundation for architecture/Turin in collaboration with Circolo del Design, ARTECO, ASL City of Turin and the Order of Doctors of Turin. The project intends to experiment how a treatment experience within a place with intense architecture can lead to the reduction of the stress of waiting in an uncomfortable environment and how it can contribute to the increase of well-being and psycho-physical comfort of the people being treated and of the carers, improving their relationship and working alliance. The experimentation aims to demonstrate that the experience of a medical visit in places of culture contributes to weakening the stress of waiting, increasing the well-being and psycho-physical comfort of patients and caregivers, improving their relationship.