Urban Regeneration

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At the heart of OHT’s programming are women and young people with migratory backgrounds, communities often excluded from decision-making processes and cultural planning. Through artistic and self-narration practices, languages, memories, gestures, and visions become living materials, capable of resonating among people and within the space they inhabit.

The Urban Center is conceived as an ecosystem to be collectively inhabited and transformed, where speaking out becomes legitimate and shared. A space where stories can recognize one another, intertwine, and generate a sense of belonging. A place to inhabit, where care becomes both a cultural and political practice.

Practices and workshops
[in progress]

 

> curated by Marie Moïse

MEMORY WORKSHOP. WORDS TO EMBROIDER A COLLECTIVE MEMORY > 19.12.2025
From the reading of Sixteen Words, the debut novel by Nava Ebrahimi, and from a box of poetic objects, a path of memories and self-narration emerges; through the practice of self-awareness and feminist listening, first-person storytelling becomes a political gesture and allows a new collective memory to take root.

MEMORIES UNDER THE SKIN. DECOLONIAL CHOREO/GRAPHY WORKSHOP > 22.01.2026
This workshop proposes a collective practice of theoretical and performative reworking of the embodied experience of power relations and their coloniality. The verses of racialized poets and thinkers intertwine with personal memories, transforming into words, movement, and touch.

WHO CARES FOR ME – TOWARDS A MAP OF THE CITY OF CARE > February 2026 (tbc)
There is a city, partly real and partly imaginary; it is made of spaces, inner refuges, and our experiences of mutual flourishing. Now it is time to map it and trace paths to meet one another and make it real.

 

> curated by Maryame El Qabach

THE LANGUAGES THAT FLOW THROUGH US > March–October 2026
A series of sessions of shared reading, rewriting, and dialogue in both mother tongue and Italian, exploring texts that speak of body, memory, and migration

 

> curated by Sara Leghissa

BETWEEN ACTION AND WORDS. From the practice of observation to “queer vandalism” > 13–14 March 2026; 10–11 April 2026; 8–9 May 2026
In recent years, Sara Leghissa has developed a series of works focused on the concept of “wild posting,” a practice used to communicate multiple messages in urban contexts through both legal and illegal poster placement. The posters spread words and phrases in public space, reflecting on the processes of invisibilization and exclusionary policies affecting certain communities.
During the workshops, groups of young people are invited to participate in collective conversations, explore the public spaces of Rovereto, collaboratively propose messages, and finally create posters to be displayed on the city’s walls.

> Marie Moïse
PhD in Political Philosophy, she conducts research and activism in feminist studies and builds networks of feminist mutual aid and community care. She teaches at Stanford University Florence and collaborates with the University of Innsbruck. She is a translator and co-translator of various publications, including Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis (Alegre, 2018), and translator of Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks (Tamu, 2022) and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown (nero, 2022). Her research primarily focuses on postcolonial and gender issues from an intersectional perspective.

> Maryame El Qabach 
she works at the intersection of education, cultural activism, writing, and artistic research. She lives among languages that meet, clash, and reinvent one another—a migratory genealogy where words are never singular, but a continuously moving space. In her artistic practice, the voice dialogues with gesture, and embroidery becomes tactile writing. In this gesture, the hands extend the thinking of language, transforming thread into a narrative of shared memory: a space that offers the world new possibilities to give and find voice.

> Sara Leghissa 
independent artist, her work spans creation, performance art, and curatorial practice. Her research emerges from a need for connection, sharing, and transformation with contexts and people. In recent years, she has developed a body of work centered around the notion of “wild posting,” a practice used to communicate social, political, and cultural messages in urban spaces through both legal and illegal posters. Her work has been presented, among others, at Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Short Theatre (IT), Triennale Teatro Dell’Arte (IT), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (IT), Museo Macro (IT), La Casa Encendida (ES), Festival Parallèle (FR), Saal Biennal (EE), Mir Festival (GR), and Malta Biennale Art (MT).