Fondazione Pistoletto officially announces the launch of the signature collection for the European campaign Good Food For All, promoting the European Citizens’ Initiative Food is a Human Right for All, whose goal is to guarantee every individual access to quality, sustainable, and dignified food. Cittadellarte thus confirms its role as a key player in a radical transformation of the European landscape, translating its artistic vision into concrete political action. The Good Food For All project, promoted and supported by the Foundation, represents a clear and tangible expression of Demopraxia, the philosophical and operational paradigm conceived by Paolo Naldini, Director of Cittadellarte. Demopraxia promotes a unique model of social transformation in which art becomes a tool for active and collective participation, engaging individuals and communities in turning ideas and visions into concrete and sustainable actions.

Good Food For All: the project and the signature collection

The Good Food For All initiative emerged from the Second Demopractic Forum on the Right to Food, organized by Fondazione Pistoletto in Geneva in May 2024. Thanks to the coordination work carried out by Cittadellarte, the campaign has brought together more than 200 European organizations active in the social, agricultural, and environmental sectors, creating an unprecedented political platform. The initiative aims to commit the European Union to recognizing food as a fundamental human right through binding legislative instruments, definitively moving beyond an assistance-based approach to ensure every European citizen access to dignified, sustainable, and adequate food. The success of the initiative is grounded in the demopractic operational method consolidated by Fondazione Pistoletto: Mapping, Forum, and Construction Site. This tripartite approach makes it possible to transform artistic creativity into concrete models of participatory governance, demonstrating how art can serve as a tool for social and political regeneration. Through this methodology, Cittadellarte addresses the structural challenges of the European system—from food poverty to the crisis of the agricultural model—by proposing integrated solutions that combine human dignity and environmental sustainability.

The collective performance at the European Parliament in Brussels

The mobilization process promoted by Fondazione Pistoletto will culminate on January 14, 2026, with a highly symbolic event: on the Esplanade of the European Parliament in Brussels, one hundred participants will form a representation of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Third Paradise, the iconic symbol expressing the necessary synthesis between nature and artifice, conservation and transformation. At the center of the collective performance, a large banner featuring a QR code will allow participants and European citizens to immediately sign the Initiative, transforming the aesthetic gesture into direct political action, at a moment when art becomes civic responsibility.

The voice of the Director of Cittadellarte

“A group of citizens,” stated Paolo Naldini, “comes together sharing the commitment to ensure that access to dignified, healthy, and fair food is a right for all and not a privilege for the few. They imagine a different world, are able to envision it, and design ways, strategies, tools, and pathways to reach this ambitious goal together. They therefore connect with one another as bearers of practices and experiences and, at the same time, link up with local institutions, with the city and the Canton of Geneva, and with international institutions such as the European Community, eventually building the complex European Citizens’ Initiative Good Food For All. All of this arises from the conjunction between the personal initiative developed by Walter El Nagar, founder of the Mater Foundation and the Refettorio of Geneva, and the Art of Demopraxia, which promotes a vision of society as a collective work and the use of co-creation methods through collective intelligence. This is what we have developed at Cittadellarte over nearly three decades: the utopia of government of the people, exercised by the people, in their own homes and enterprises. In a word, what can Demopraxia lead to? We can answer with this example: changing the Constitution of a Swiss canton—specifically Geneva—and building a European Citizens’ Initiative whose objective is to change the European Constitution by introducing and translating food into it as a fundamental right.”

The comment from the Head of Cittadellarte’s Nourishment Office

“As President of the Let Eat Bi Association,” explained Armona Pistoletto, “I promote a culture of food based on local, natural, and seasonal products, with respect for the land and for people. Along this path, we support Good Food For All, a project that makes good food accessible to everyone and that naturally connects with one of the initiatives we have been developing for years: TerreAbbanDonate. This project focuses on the recovery of neglected territories and the enhancement of local resources, so that every person in the Biella area can obtain a plot of land to grow their own healthy, local vegetables.”

Signing

With this initiative, Fondazione Pistoletto reaffirms its role as a cultural and political laboratory capable of generating models that can be replicated on an international scale. The right to food is no longer merely an ethical claim but becomes a collective responsibility and a tool for democratic transformation. Cittadellarte invites all European citizens to actively participate in this change: starting today, January 7, 2026, every signature represents an act of adherence to Demopraxia and a step toward a more just, inclusive, and sustainable Europe.

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