The newly-founded Fondazione Merz in the former Lancia heating plant aims at giving the visitor the immediate sensation that he is not only visiting an art-exhibition, but is getting the chance to immerse in an entire landscape. We wish to flank the undisputed role of the Fondazione as a place in which to safeguard a heritage of inestimable historic worth the collection of works by Mario Merz with that of an observatory on the latest and most interesting research through divulgation and the organization of exhibitions, publications, workshops, meetings and interdisciplinary events.