What do we want Danae Festival to be like? We want it to be a place where the unthought-of can happen, a house offering the right conditions for projects still unnamed, and taking the risks they involve. We would like both our long-time and our new followers to dare with us. We would like us all to build this house, urged by our desire to meet each other, to explore new forms.

And “house” is the keyword that came to our mind as we started working on this edition of Danae, and for the first time we have crafted our Festival around a theme.

When energies and directions are put in motion, then surprising coincidences occur: we received many proposals that seemed to ponder explicitly or subtly on the issue of house and, in a wider sense, of dwelling.

In these last few years the house has become the background of all our social interactions, which has aroused contradictory feelings. The relationship with its spaces, which have long been the only place where to be, has definitely changed. Many people have brought about more or less radical changes in their way of living by changing house or housing habits, by setting up community projects.