Collesano. Provincia di Palermo. Madonie Natural Park.
My family has farmed this land for seven generations. 40 hectares of uncultivated, certified organic terrain — untouched for decades, preserved from the pressures that have emptied so many Sicilian villages.
Springs. Ancient terraces. Mediterranean scrubland. Stone farmhouses. A landscape that holds memory — and potential.
Kaspa Camp is my decision to return — and to build something here worth staying for.
The Vision
I start from a simple observation: competition, as the sole engine of progress, is not enough.
Science, ecology, and generations of lived experience all point toward the same conclusion: collaboration between human beings is more efficient — and more humane.
Kaspa Camp is a concrete experiment in that idea. Not a manifesto. Not a festival. A place.
Where artists can work. Where children can play and learn. Where communities can build something together — and where the economy of that building stays local.
How It Works
The camp operates across two nodes:
Sicily (Collesano) — the primary site. Residencies, workshops, land restoration, community events. 40 hectares. A village. A mountain park.
Switzerland (Losone) — the European hub. Planning, prototyping, network coordination. La Fabbrica: a workshop and dormitory in the Locarno area.
Between the two, a flow of people, ideas, and resources that connects the Mediterranean with northern Europe.
The model is designed to be financially sustainable through multiple funding streams, institutionally grounded through partnership with Comune di Collesano, and artistically ambitious — with confirmed collaborations and a first land art installation in preparation.
Why Kaspa?
Kaspa is a fast, decentralised, transparent blockchain.
Its values mirror the project's: speed without sacrifice of decentralisation, openness without speculation, infrastructure that works in the background — so that what happens in the foreground can be human.
The KASCAMP utility token is our experiment in building a local economy on these principles. Not crypto as investment. Crypto as infrastructure for community exchange.
Founder
Rosario Ilardo
Born in Orbe. Grew up between Lausanne, Zurich and Locarno. My family is from Collesano, Sicily — seventh generation on that land.
I live between two worlds. I always have.
By trade, I design light for dance and theatre. By temperament, I'm a maker: of spaces, systems, connections, and occasionally trouble. I'm drawn to technology the way others are drawn to tools — not for its own sake, but for what it lets you build.
I've spent my life trying to be useful. To people, to projects, to places. That's what Kaspa Camp is: the most ambitious version of that impulse.
My philosophy, comes down to one thing — human beings develop best together.
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
info@kaspacamp.org