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Status: project ongoing (September 2025 – January 2026).
Locations: Bologna (Italy), Utrecht (the Netherlands).
Final exhibition: Biblioteca Salaborsa, Sala Incontri, open to the public from 21 to 27 January 2026 during the library’s opening hours.
Room with a View is an Erasmus+ project carried out by Biografilm in collaboration with Archilabò and the Dutch organizations ClickF1 and KOPA. The project is funded by the European Union and supported by the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Metropolitan City of Bologna, the Municipality of Bologna, and the Unione Reno Galliera.
A group of secondary school students aged 15 to 19 from Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Bologna—specifically, in Italy, students from the Keynes Institute in Castel Maggiore (BO) and the Scappi Institute in Castel San Pietro Terme (BO)—took part in a classroom-based workshop program. Under the guidance of different artists in each country—Cristina Portolano and Chiara Trivelli for Italy—students reinterpreted European values from a personal perspective and through the lens of active citizenship, using a variety of artistic techniques.
The outcome consists of two parallel exhibitions: one inaugurated in Utrecht in November 2025, and one opening at Biblioteca Salaborsa in Bologna on 21 January 2026.
The exhibition Room With A View – What Europe Would You Like? will be freely accessible to the public at Biblioteca Salaborsa, Sala Incontri (first floor), from 21 to 27 January 2026, and available by appointment for guided school visits.
The exhibition takes the form of a collective representation of the concept of welcoming, developed by students as both a personal and shared response to the question “What Europe would you like?”. The participating classes invite the public to reflect on which actions make a person feel—or not feel—at home. For this reason, the works are displayed within a symbolic living room: a domestic space that hosts personal experiences translated into images, illustrations, and audiovisual content, created using the techniques learned during the participatory workshops led by the exhibition’s curating artists. This creates an active dialogue with visitors as they move through the exhibition space, with the aim of sparking a virtuous cycle of reflection and concrete acts of solidarity.
Project objectives:
To co-create, together with teachers, artists, students, an innovative new methodology tailored to citizenship learning objectives in vocational education and training institutions.
To teach students in vocational schools autonomy and creative freedom in expressing their perspectives on citizenship through artistic media.
To improve students’ digital skills and competences.
To support the development of identity, citizenship, and European values among students in vocational schools.
To foster twinning and partnerships between European schools.
To promote the exchange of best practices among teachers from local schools and from different countries.
