The research project ACTS. A Chance Through Sport, co-funded by Polisocial Award 2019, intervenes in Milan's prison institutions, with the aim of investigating physical activity and sports in prison as a tool for education, training and social reintegration.

The research aims to define design guidelines to provide Italian prisons and the inmate population with architectural spaces, sports equipment and activity programs useful for the development of sports training understood as enabling practices at the physical, cultural, social and relational levels.
Within the research, the theme of sport is addressed and declined according to a multidisciplinary approach, combining design, architecture and engineering skills.

Assuming sport as a chance, an experience of freedom and a practice of liberation, ACTS aims at:

• the concrete modification and redevelopment of spaces and equipment intended for sports activities in penal institutions;
• the definition of an effective sports activity program, thanks to a scientific monitoring campaign of the physical activity carried out by those involved;
• the multimedia storytelling, through videos and podcasts, of the experiences lived by the inmates during the implementation of the project.

The Milan Bollate prison represented the pilot project, during which the following were implemented:

• concrete interventions in the redevelopment of prison spaces;
• the monitoring of the motor activity of a sample of the prison population (inmates and prison police officers);
• a collaborative storytelling workshop.