Spaces

1 - Multifunctional workshops

Within the 1200 square meters, today there are many new services that bring the Cultural Yards back to their original vocation, with the birth of a multifunctional workshop, a place open to the city for laboratory, design and production activities.

The spaces of the workshops are places of knowledge linked to tradition and innovation thanks to the involvement of migrants expert in craft techniques and local operators with skills in the use of electronic machinery. A real co-design and co-production laboratory for self-construction, experimentation and the use of modern equipment. The space is organized in three functional areas all intended for activities and workshops:

Ceramics and green building: a section for the processing of vegetable and mineral materials - such as hemp, raw earth, straw, posidonia - in the context of green building and bio-architecture: this is where lathes, kilns for raku ceramics and mixers for minerals are turned on
Carpentry (manufacturing 4.0): equipped with laser cutter, CNC milling machine, 3D printers. An area dedicated to those who want to experiment with the design and prototyping of objects, components, furnishings for eco-design, art and crafts
Electrical engineering, electronics and robotics workshop: electrical circuits, programming, educational robotics

2 - Helpdesk for social enterprise culture

Dissemination of new manufacturing 4.0 technologies and training in use
Infopoint on opportunities related to the Circular Economy
Organization of meetings, courses, consultancy with experts and companies in the sector on the subject of green building, environmental and energy requalification, phytoremediation and biodiversity, with particular attention to companies, agricultural and construction cooperatives

3 - Multimedia documentation center

NOZ is a place of shared knowledge thanks to:

Memory recovery activities in the Noce / Zisa district promoted by students of local schools
Interactive archive on eco-friendly materials and practices applied to green building, green architecture and eco-design around the world. The Center also allows the use of the data contained in the Bank of Migrant Knowledge, aggregated information thanks to the Solidarity Urban Community project: an archive of traditional craft skills and techniques kept by hundreds of migrants residing in Palermo

4 - Performative space

A large area for organizing meetings, exhibitions, conferences, fairs and events connected by a single thematic thread: business culture, the promotion of knowledge and crafts.

5 - Workshop of the little ones

The laboratories of the three workshops are also declined in a workshop space with activities suitable for children from 4 to 10 years: NOZ is animated by initiatives that allow children to get closer to natural materials, technologies and programming languages in consciously and through play