From April 4 to 12, 2025, the Upward Festival will be held in Valle Camonica.
Looking upwards is how mountain people broaden their horizons. A horizon made of vertical spaces that, to be experienced, demand consolidated techniques and skills, but also visions and innovation capabilities, which the Upward Festival aims to explore.
The initiative stems from the multi-year experience of Vione permanent laboratory, a culturally-based regeneration project located in Vione, a small town in upper Valle Camonica which, by rediscovering the value of its historical building heritage, has identified a factor on which to act to reactivate a community revival.
The Upward Festival is an initiative of the Mountain Community of Valle Camonica, to explore contemporary architecture in “inner areas” or “high lands” – or, more simply: in the mountains – with particular attention to small-scale interventions. It is one of ten projects supported by Architecture Festival - Edition 3, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.