Where we've come
together.
Our projects are born from the same impulse that shaped our story: the desire to create spaces where people can truly be together.
We design cultural spaces through co-creation, bringing together young creatives, partners, and communities in processes that value relational contact, shared responsibility, and mutual care. What matters to us is not only what is produced, but how it is produced: the quality of the encounters, the emotional effort invested, and the creative tension that emerges when different perspectives meet.
Each project becomes a space to live, experimental, participatory, and human, where stories are not only told, but collectively shaped.
'26
Our way of acting has now become consolidated.
We begin to develop a dimension of research and grounding of our methods: we try to make them explicit, to truly understand what we are doing and why.
We move within our spaces with greater awareness. We feel the need to define our own rules of the game, to give shape to a method that belongs to us.
At the same time, we try not to lose those humble and slightly naïve dreams that set us in motion at the beginning.
'24
We gain new awareness.
Our projects are no longer structured around the idea of constantly growing and doing something bigger every time.
We begin to understand that the meaning of what we do lies mainly in the transformative power that our action has had on the people we have met along the way.
Meanwhile, the international community of Duemila30 keeps growing.
We realise that this is where we need to continue investing, significantly expanding the cultural offer of the project.
'21
The years of the pandemic stop our main project for two editions.
Perhaps this is the beginning of a small identity crisis in our work. A phase that leads us to experiment with new paths and new projects.
Through Waves we discover something important: the meaning of our action did not lie in the content of Duemila30 — and before that of Quindici19 — meaning the artistic form of cinema.
It lay in the methods and practices we were putting into action.
In our way of bringing people together.
From that moment, our action takes on a new meaning.
'19
From 2018 onward, years of major changes begin in our lives.
The initial group, after finishing high school, slowly disperses. Some of us meet again in Milan, where we encounter many of the people who are now part of the team.
These are years of the first crises and of many questions.
The Quindici19 contest no longer corresponds to what we feel we want to say, and it transforms into Duemila30.
We experiment with new projects and also experience our first major failures.
At the same time, we try to answer some questions that are still lingering with us:
Is this work or is it volunteering? How do we grow? Do we really want to grow? What place does the association have in our lives?
'17
In the first four years (starting in 2014) we take our first steps and experiment.
We are born from a simple need: the need to express ourselves during our high school years and to understand whether some ideas could really take shape.
Little by little we discover the power we have to transform dreams and intuitions into something real.
We still dream of doing big things.
We look for our spaces and we find them around the Quindici19 short film contest, from which we take our name.
The project slowly grows and, in 2016, we formally become an association.