We invited 12 location-independent workers to join the coworking and coliving experience inside of a fishermen’s town in Sardinia. People from very different professions and cultural backgrounds lived inside of scattered historic homes, and worked online from places which are closed or operating on minimum during winter seasons like the Museum of the Tonnara (MuT), the tourist office, or the local library.
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Reality
Stintino is a town of 1500 people located in the north of Sardinia. Overcrowded with mass tourism during the peak summer months (July and August) and almost empty during the winter months. During the summer months, the town is extremely lively, where locals rent their homes to host tourists, small shops, bars and restaurants are open and working well at every corner. Locals are hired to work on seasonal jobs for a quite decent salary. Summer season is over and everything gets closed, no concerts, no music, no workshops. Town enters in sudden, very uncomfortable and boring silence for any active or young person who loves their town. This reality is forcing young people to move out from the town, and even worse, it often creates depression and suicide, especially among younger generations. For example, during our event in November, 95% of bars and restaurants were closed. Only the bar Meloni, shop Nonna Isa, and the church stayed open during the whole year.

‍Pescatori digitali as solution

‍Pescatori digitali interrupted this uncomfortable silence, and without much disturbance, slowly and constantly interacted with locals throughout 19 different activities. We used different activities as a tool to interact and bridge locals with guests from the project.