Dream has always been a threshold.

In Greek mythology, Hypnos—the guardian of the boundary between waking and sleep—did not create dreams, but made them possible: he was the one who lulled the world into sleep, opening the gates to the realm of dreams.

Hypnos is an invitation to surrender to sleep, to cross an invisible threshold into a suspended dimension where the real and the imagined intertwine. The visitor is thus called to embark on a journey ranging from the luminous vibrations of the aurora borealis, to the intangible patterns of nebulae, and further into galaxies where the gaze dissolves and the mind opens to infinite possible worlds.

It is a space of passage: a place in which to lose oneself without being lost, where new inner landscapes may emerge.

At the centre of this scenario, as in celestial systems, everything converges towards a nucleus: the cultural agora. The beating heart of exchange and sharing, the agora of the sixteenth edition of Orticolario is enclosed within a scenographic organic structure designed by Canyalab.

Around it, a double spiral of sixteen landscapes unfolds like a cosmic movement, tracing a path along which imaginary worlds are revealed—visions that suggest, rather than impose, the experience of dreaming. Plants engage in dialogue with natural and symbolic elements: roots generating unexpected forms, structures evoking termite mounds and ancestral memories, fire-scarred trunks, earths and sands that preserve the memory of habitats and suggest distant geographies suspended between reality and imagination.