In the historic center of Como the festival will take place between the Palazzo del Broletto<\/strong> and the church of San Pietro in Atrio<\/strong> while on the lakeside, Villa del Grumello<\/strong> and the other locations within the Chilometro della Conoscenza <\/strong>will take center stage. Furthermore, Villa Anna<\/strong> in Cernobbio and Borgovico33<\/strong> in the city center will present two special projects by the Grieder Contemporary gallery, while various locations scattered across Como will host the site-specific installations created by the artist Valerio Eliogabalo Torrisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLightness, the theme we have chosen for this year\u2019s edition, can be expressed in countless forms and can find its reason for being in all the different realms of creativity\u201d, states the creator and artistic director of the festival Lorenzo Butti<\/strong>. \u201cDeveloping exhibitions and special projects that can propose a dialogue between art and design has always been the stylistic feature of our program and every year we strive to offer our visitors a new way of looking at these disciplines and at creativity<\/a> in general, inserting the exhibitions into unique architectural contexts which can themselves be an integral part of the exhibition itinerary\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n