Tammaro Rural Design Week
A week of rural design, a widespread exhibition, and workshops in the village of Morcone, nestled between the Tammaro Valley and the Matese mountains.
About Tammaro RDW
A week of rural design in Morcone
From April 26th to May 3rd, 2026, the town of Morcone, located in the Alto Sannio area of the Benevento province (Campania), hosts the Tammaro Rural Design Week: eight days of widespread exhibitions, workshops, talks, screenings, excursions, and performances dedicated to rural design—a design approach rooted in rural and mountain territories that works directly with their local resources. Squares, regenerated spaces, workshops, and farms become the rooms of an exhibition without walls.
The 2026 theme: rural metabolism
This edition is dedicated to rural metabolism, understood as an interpretive key and design orientation for the regeneration of territorial ecosystems, with the goal of supporting the vital functions of rural and mountain areas. The works and workshops challenge the linear, extractive model and propose a holistic approach, focusing on the relationships between the parts of a system rather than individual elements. For one week, Morcone becomes a platform for exchange between designers, researchers, artists, and artisans on one side, and residents, businesses, and local administrations on the other.
The widespread exhibition and award-winning projects
The heart of the event is the widespread exhibition held in the historic center and the town's regenerated spaces, open from April 26th to May 3rd. It features over twenty works selected via an international open call across three categories: Products, Materials, and Processes. The winners, awarded during the vernissage, are:
- Products: Francesco Battaglia with «Tra transumanza e memoria collettiva»;
- Materials: Davide Viggiano with «Olea Mucrae»;
- Processes: Filippo Clemente and Davide De Carli with «IN-Thèrra»;
- Special Mention: Karl Logge and Marta Romani with «The Flock».
Each of the winners leads a workshop, allowing the public to experience the materials and processes on display firsthand.
Workshops, talks, and screenings
The schedule alternates between in-depth discussions and practical activities, hosted primarily at the Auditorium San Bernardino, the Rural Lab on Corso Italia, and the Casa del Cinema Ambientale e dei territori, the former Cinema Vittoria restored by the TAM project. Highlights include: biodegradable biopolymers made from local organic waste, excess sheep's wool transformed into bio-fertilizers, mapping of local products and their by-products, collective weaving on a flying loom, natural printing with leaves and bark, and needle felting for all ages. April 30th is dedicated to the conference «Per un approccio ecosistemico alla progettazione», endorsed by the Order of Architects of Benevento, offering professional training credits. Evening screenings explore themes of transhumance and water, with directors present in person or via video link.
Excursions between the Tammaro Valley and the Matese
Two hikes take the public outside the village: the ethnobotanical walk between Morcone and Pietraroja, discovering wild plants and traditional Matese knowledge, and the walk along the Regio Tratturo starting from Santa Croce del Sannio, following the ancient wool route amidst wild orchids and medicinal plants. Both require registration and include a packed lunch; they are the perfect opportunity to understand why the Tammaro Valley and the Matese are both a biodiversity hotspot and a productive landscape.
A PNRR project for inland areas
The Tammaro Rural Design Week is organized by the association Ru.De.Ri ETS (Rural Design for the Regeneration of Territories) as part of the TAM - la Cultura è un fiume project by the Municipality of Morcone, funded by the European Union's NextGenerationEU and managed by the Ministry of Culture under the PNRR measure dedicated to the attractiveness of villages. The Rural Design Week began in 2019 with its first edition in San Potito Sannitico and arrives in Morcone in 2026 in a version linked to the Tammaro river basin. The TAM project, under the artistic direction of architect Marta Lombardi, offers other events throughout the year, from artistic residencies to workshops on domestic archives.
Why it's worth the trip
Satellite events dedicated to female entrepreneurship, an open-air public art collective, community aperitifs, tastings of beehive products, and street music accompany the more technical side of the program. It is a festival suitable for designers, architects, and researchers, but also designed for families and curious visitors who want to see up close how a village in inland Campania is attempting to put its own resources back into circulation.
Tammaro RDW — edition 2026
The 2026 edition program
The inaugural edition of the Tammaro Rural Design Week brought a week of activities to Morcone, in the province of Benevento, distributed across public spaces, regenerated sites, and farms. The guiding thread was rural metabolism: how resources, waste, and knowledge of a territory can be recirculated instead of dispersed.
Alongside the widespread exhibition, open from April 26th to May 3rd, the calendar alternated between material workshops (biopolymers from organic waste, sheep's wool transformed into bio-fertilizer, needle felting, weaving on a flying loom, natural printing), professional meetings endorsed by the Order of Architects of Benevento, screenings at the Casa del Cinema Ambientale e dei territori with directors present, two excursions between Morcone, Pietraroja, and the Regio Tratturo of Santa Croce del Sannio, and a soundscape performance dedicated to bees. Satellite events involved Positive LAB, Kinetès Atelier, the RiCuce project by the iCare cooperative, and Culture Attive.
Programme Tammaro RDW 2026
Satellite events (pre-opening)
- April 20, 10:00-13:00 - La Casa di Ilde, Morcone: «Women's Circle: eco-leadership for women», meeting and co-design by Positive Lab with Kinetès and Women in Business.
- April 20-25, 11:00-13:00 and 16:00-18:00 - Centro Anziani Alto Sannio / Rural Lab: «Regenerative eco-leadership workshop for women», collective textile creation and upcycling of antique fabrics with designers Ana Vives and Céline Bouquerel.
- April 24, 9:30-16:00 - «Enrico Narciso» Cultural Center, Santa Croce del Sannio: «Territorial development: from European perspective to local actions».
Sunday, April 26
- 17:00 - Auditorium San Bernardino: Vernissage, introduction to the edition dedicated to Rural Metabolism, awards ceremony for winners, and visit to the exhibited works. Followed by a community aperitif with the SassinFunky Street Band.
Monday, April 27
- 9:30-12:00 - Auditorium San Bernardino: workshop «Rural Bioplastic Lab - 0km materials» with Davide Viggiano, winner of the Materials category (for 4th and 5th-year students of the Morcone Scientific High School).
- 15:00-17:00 - Auditorium San Bernardino: talk «Bio-generation: designing the territory with materials of the future» with Marco Abbro and Alma Sardo from the BioLogic Laboratory of Knowledge for Business.
- 18:00 - Casa del Cinema Ambientale e dei territori (former Cinema Vittoria, Via Roma): screening of «Civiltà transumanti», with director Anna Kauber.
Tuesday, April 28
- 8:30-14:00 - Meeting point at Villa Comunale: excursion «The plant path: ethnobotanical walk» between Morcone and Pietraroja with Giovanni Salerno; packed lunch provided by Biancamela.
- 15:00-17:00 - Auditorium San Bernardino: workshop «Nourishing wool: community ecological practices» with Filippo Clemente, winner of the Processes category and founder of Pecore Attive.
- 18:00 - Casa del Cinema: screening of «In cammino per l'acqua, dal Vanoi a Venezia», via video link with director Marco Pavan.
Wednesday, April 29
- 10:00-12:00 - Piazza Manente: workshop «Exploring, telling, and sharing pastoral culture» with Francesco Battaglia, winner of the Products category (repeated May 2 and 3).
- 11:00-17:00 - Kinetes Atelier, Via Bonaparte 10: «Co-creative pop-up shop - open workshop on female eco-leadership» with Rossella Del Prete, Antonella Fusco, Axelle Vergès, Ana Siles, and the RiCuce project by the iCare cooperative.
- 17:30 - Piazza San Bernardino: workshop «Mapping local productions and their by-products» with Matteo Clementi and Federico Angeloni; followed by a social gathering.
Thursday, April 30
- 9:30-17:00 - Auditorium San Bernardino: conference «For an ecosystemic approach to design», endorsed by the Order of Architects of the Province of Benevento, with professional training credits. First session (9:30-13:00) moderated by Luciano De Bonis (University of Molise), discussants Rosaria Pisa (University of Rhode Island) and Ernesto Ramon Rispoli (University Federico II of Naples); light lunch; second session (14:30-17:00) moderated by Isabella Bordoni, discussants Marco Manfra (University of Camerino) and Ernesto Ramon Rispoli. Presentation of selected projects.
- 20:30 - Radici bookstore/wine bar, Morcone: presentation of the book «Design eco-sociale. Coesistenza, presenza, corrispondenza» (Meltemi, 2026) with author Marco Manfra.
Friday, May 1
- 9:00-14:00 - Meeting point at Oro del Sannio farm, Santa Croce del Sannio: excursion «The wool path: walk on the Regio Tratturo» with agronomist Angela Zeoli, through wild orchids and medicinal plants; packed lunch.
- 15:30-19:00 - Di Fiore Agritourism, Morcone: workshop «Wolves or sheep?» with Diana Biscaioli, needle felting with mountain carded wool for all ages; followed by an aperitif in the courtyard.
Saturday, May 2
- 10:00-17:00 - Casa del Cinema: «Do you want to become a memory hunter?», intensive workshop on domestic archives and oral testimonies by Culture Attive.
- 10:00 - Auditorium San Bernardino: workshop «Flying weaving» with Marta Romani and Karl Logge, winners of the special mention.
- 10:00 - Auditorium San Bernardino: «Adventures in the woods», needle felting with wool and hemp with Diana Biscaioli.
- 10:00 - Centro Anziani Alto Sannio / Rural Lab: «Phytographies. Printing with nature» with printmaker artist Barbara La Ragione (ages 10-15).
- 11:00 - Rural Lab, Corso Italia 142/144: «Designing rural metabolism: reprogramming value before it leaves the territory» with Carme Verdaguer Aguiló and Christoph Hafner, with a participatory flow-mapping workshop.
- 17:00 - Auditorium San Bernardino: talk «Multispecies thinking: coexistence and nature-inspired models for cultural institutions» with Viviana Checchia, director of the Void Art Centre in Derry; followed by the «Raw and Wild» aperitif.
Sunday, May 3
- 10:00-17:00 - Casa del Cinema: second day of «Do you want to become a memory hunter?».
- 11:30 - Porta San Marco area, Mulino Florio: inauguration of the art collective «Attesa» (second edition), an open-air public art route in the historic center.
- 17:00 - Mastrofrancesco Agritourism: performance «ToBees - soundscapes for biodiversity» with violinist and beekeeper Marna Fumarola and sound designer Azzurra Fragale; followed by a tasting of beehive products.
Highlights Tammaro RDW 2026
- Vernissage on April 26th at the Auditorium San Bernardino with awards ceremony and street band.
- Widespread exhibition with over twenty projects selected in the Products, Materials, and Processes categories, open all week.
- Workshops led by the four winners: 0km biopolymers, wool as bio-fertilizer, pastoral culture, flying weaving.
- Conference «For an ecosystemic approach to design» on April 30th, with professional credits for architects.
- Two guided excursions: ethnobotanical walk towards Pietraroja and walk on the Regio Tratturo.
- Performance «ToBees - soundscapes for biodiversity» in an apiary on May 3rd.
Prices Tammaro RDW 2026
Practical information — Tammaro RDW
How to get there
Morcone is located in the Alto Sannio area, north of Benevento, at the foot of the Matese massif. A car is the most convenient way to travel, with Naples and Benevento serving as the main gateways to the Sannio region. The events are distributed throughout the historic center, including the Auditorium San Bernardino, Piazza San Bernardino, Piazza Manente, the Rural Lab at Corso Italia 142/144, the Centro Anziani Alto Sannio, and the Casa del Cinema Ambientale e dei territori (former Cinema Vittoria, Via Roma), as well as some local farms and agritourisms.
Registration and information
Registration is required for workshops, labs, and excursions: please email [email protected] or contact +39 329 0295415 (WhatsApp available). The complete and updated program is published on tam-morcone.it.
Tips
- For the two excursions, sturdy mountain footwear and a packed lunch are required.
- Felting, weaving, and natural printing workshops are open to children accompanied by an adult; the phytography workshop is reserved for the 10-15 age group.
- The conference on April 30th provides professional training credits for architects in the province of Benevento.
- The widespread exhibition can be visited freely throughout the historic center for the entire duration of the week.
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Auditorium San Bernardino e centro storico di Morcone
Auditorium San Bernardino, Piazza San Bernardino, 82026 Morcone