A participatory social design project in the courtyard of the Casa Circondariale Lorusso Cutugno in Turin.
Graphic Days® for the Casa Circondariale Lorusso Cutugno
Social Design
2025
In the inner courtyard of the Lorusso e Cutugno prison in Turin, the gray walls give way to color thanks to a social design project by Graphic Days®. The project was born from listening to and actively involving the prisoners and aims to transform the outdoor exercise area into a place capable of generating new perceptions, relationships, and meanings. An initiative that uses visual language as a tool for dialogue and care of the space, restoring centrality to the people who experience it on a daily basis.
The mural depicts a suspended city, not anchored to the earth but balanced in space: a visual metaphor for life in prison, suspended between a before and an after. Through the harmonious use of colors, shapes, and textures, a modular landscape takes shape in which the elements fit together like a puzzle, giving life to an interconnected and flexible system. Each part contributes to the overall composition, creating a coherent whole in constant dialogue.
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The work is the result of a workshop held in October and November 2025 with prisoners, during which visual design tools were used to stimulate reflection on prison, relationships between individuals, and the connection with space. In this process, color became an expression of identity and emotions, while form took on the symbolic value of coexistence: elements that delimit and protect, but at the same time dialogue and transform.
This shared reflection gave rise to a color palette that combines warm and cool tones in dynamic balance. After the design phase, the inmates also participated in the creation of the mural, working alongside the Graphic Days® team in an urban painting project designed with and for the prisoners.
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