The project - as regards the island of Santo Stefano - was therefore articulated around some fundamental issues :
· The historical experience of the prison ’ s organization of Santo Stefano , declined in all its stratification that include the architecture , the lives of inmates and their sufferings , the work of managers and guards , daily life , the presence of great intellectuals detained for political reasons , speeches , methods and tools of coercion and redemption ; the feelings , the values expressed in the two centuries of life of the institution .
· The historical experience of Ventotene island as a place of exile , since the times of imperial Rome ; as the seat and place of the composition of the pro-European Manifesto which represented one of the inspirations of the European formation process ; as an example of a small Mediterranean island , hit by the great challenges of modernization .
The need to organize the overall use of the place in the direction of a poetic remembrance , oriented to meditation , capable of taking charge of the density of the historical experience by translating it into viable values and visions .
In practice , this concept required to set the characteristics of the intervention in the direction of :
· An extended and flexible accessibility . So , with accessible costs of use , openness to a multidisciplinary and multimedia use capable of ranging between genres and levels always with consistency of quality ; opening to special programming for weak categories . To operate so that citizens feel not only
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