Imagine walking in a historic square where buildings come to life, telling millennial stories through cascades of colored light.

Light installations are revolutionizing our cities, transforming them into extraordinary artistic stages. These events create immersive experiences that engage thousands of people simultaneously, as explored in Dario Riccio’s book “Immersive Events”. Light installations represent one of the most democratic forms of contemporary urban art.

My fellow Mayors, my dear Councillors, we’ve all been there. You walk the streets of your municipality, the one you work for day and night, and you see it. The old cinema, its doors barred for decades, a ghost of collective laughter and dreams. The former industrial area on the outskirts, once the beating heart […]

Hello, I’m Dario Riccio, and this is “The uneXt Blog”. Let’s talk about a sentence handed down to most of our wonderful towns and cities. It’s a silent tyranny that repeats every year: the tyranny of tourism seasonality. The economy of countless territories depends on a few, frantic months of summer tourism, leaving squares, restaurants, […]

Hello, I’m Dario Riccio, and welcome the uneXt Blog. Today, let’s talk about a thorn in the side of every local administrator. It’s one of those questions that looms over every council meeting, a question the political opposition can’t wait to raise: how do we justify our spending on cultural events? “. I know the […]

Stop running the same boring local festival. One small Italian town went from obscurity to a youth tourism magnet by attracting over 100,000 people to its Nameless Festival. We dissect this powerful case study to reveal the “Blue Ocean Strategy” that ditches competition in favor of creating a whole new category of event. Here’s how you can do it too.