Urban gardens In 1987 in Treviso, a commission of urban planners, naturalists, biologists and geologists were entrusted with studies for the recovery of the Storga river area adjacent to that of the former psychiatric hospital of Sant’Artemio. In 1990 this work materialized in the Storga Risorgive Program, which included naturalistic paths also guided for the disabled, thematic routes, the restoration of old crops, riverbeds and vineyards, the establishment of areas for flower-fauna repopulation and a museum of peasant civilization. The Program was in fact implemented and since 2009 the almost 70 hectares of the former agricultural colony of Sant'Artemio have become the area on which the Storga Park insists, until the twenties of the last century work therapy, known as "ergotherapy", had been practiced in these spaces. It consisted of diverting psychiatric hospital patients from their thoughts and giving them the illusion that they are still capable of performing a task and producing something. Ergotherapy brought within the asylum walls, in addition to order and division of labor, the logic of duty, productivity and remuneration. Patients worked regularly outdoors and continuously throughout the seasons. This made the sick more serene, restoring them physical strength and psychological tranquility. For more than twenty years, a small part of this land has been given to citizens of the province of Treviso to be cultivated, for the most part they are elderly people who do not have land on which to grow vegetables and flowers. A social experiment that allows people to spend time in the open air enjoying the fruits of their soil, a common space that favors socialization and dialogue by distancing the spectrum of loneliness and isolation. Everyone makes their own contribution by beautifying the area, leaving a mark, someone leaves the ground and never returns leaving the equipment... Scarecrows of all kinds are built, tables are equipped to eat together and chairs are placed to sit and admire the worked land, in short, signs remain of the passage of men and women who find here what they have never had, the opportunity to cultivate the land with their own hands and reap the fruits of this work as time passes and the seasons follow one another.