“EVERY MAN TO HIS WORK”
Questions and Experiences Starting from the Manifesto of Good Work

Exhibition promoted by Compagnia delle Opere

This exhibition was conceived as a “natural” development of the Manifesto of Good Work, which itself stems from the observation that while work is increasing in both quantity and intensity, satisfaction with work—people’s happiness in working—is declining.
In a context where the theme of work is particularly urgent and widely debated—especially for businesses and for the lives of workers—we want to imagine an exhibition as a place where we can raise the questions we have, engaging them in dialogue with the experiences of those who have tried to explore answers through their daily work.
The exhibition therefore aims to be a place that intercepts the questions that we—and the visitors—carry within us, offering a path for responding together. How?
Through comparison with the real-life experience and reflections of those who have dared to seek answers. This starting point is shaped by themes we believe to be especially urgent today.
Moreover, the title of this year’s Meeting is taken from a poem by T.S. Eliot that speaks precisely of work, and ends with the line “Every man at his work.”
It introduces the theme of newness, and thus of what work generates and the task it entrusts to the world.
This perspective must also guide the exhibition and its horizon.