The place is difficult . An island with high vertical walls , not always accessible , not by chance chosen to host a hard prison , in the center of a precious marine protected area and itself a terrestrial nature reserve , a landing place for migratory and sedentary avifauna , without sources of water , without electricity , without sewage and waste treatment plants , exposed to extreme atmospheric agents . Every activity that is decided to install in this place translates not only into enormous operational difficulties , but also into costs and problems of economic and environmental sustainability . For this reason , the project drew inspiration for the definition of artistic and museum interventions from the great experiences of land art , with low infrastructural impact , which have characterized the experimentation of public art in recent decades . Cultural program and environmental program therefore reflect each other : the redevelopment of open spaces itself requires the adoption of non-invasive criteria on the nature of the places , through the use of native biodiversity , the only one that , thanks to the optimal genotype-environment interaction , guarantees a sustainable management with low demand for external inputs .
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