Villa Arconati does not represent a neutral backdrop for this first edition of the school conceived by Terraforma. The so-called Petite Versailles Italienne, an eighteenth-century example of a villa di delizia (villa of delight), was born as a space for representation and leisure, built to host parties, meetings, and forms of social life. Its French garden, the theater where Goldoni prepared his plays before staging them, the perspective illusions, and the labyrinth still form a landscape designed with extreme precision today. Those original symmetries remain legible, even though over the last few days they have been crisscrossed by circular white tents, portable recorders, LAPTOPs, and night walks in search of sounds.