Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide

The Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide is a Turin-based company specialising in orthopaedic devices, with seventy years of experience in the field.¹ In September 2026, under the leadership of CEO Roberto Ariagno, the company produces a prosthesis decorated with the Third Paradise symbol of the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, presented at the Fondazione Omi in Turin as part of a project combining art, technology and solidarity.²

The «Third Paradise» project with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (September 2026)

On 16 September 2026, the Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide presents, together with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and the Fondazione Omi, the prosthesis of a nine-year-old Palestinian child who arrived in Turin in 2025 as part of the Food for Gaza humanitarian mission coordinated by the Piedmont Region. The prosthesis, made of carbon fibre using 3D printing under an agreement with the Asl, is decorated, on an idea of the Officina's CEO, Roberto Ariagno, with the Third Paradise symbol of the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto.

The prosthesis's journey: from the first fitting to 3D-printed carbon fibre (2025-2026)

In 2025 the Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide provides a first prosthesis to a young Palestinian patient who arrived in Turin from Gaza after the amputation of his right leg; in May 2026 it produces a second, custom-made carbon-fibre device for him, using 3D printing, under an agreement with the Asl. On an idea of the Officina's CEO, Roberto Ariagno, the new prosthesis is decorated with the Third Paradise symbol of the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, presented in September 2026 at the Fondazione Omi in collaboration with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto.

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A prosthesis with Michelangelo Pistoletto's Third Paradise (September 2026)

On 16 September 2026, Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide presents, together with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and the Fondazione Omi, a prosthesis made of carbon fibre using 3D printing, under an agreement with the Asl, decorated with the «Third Paradise» symbol of the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. The device was made for a nine-year-old Palestinian child, evacuated from the Gaza Strip and arrived in Turin in 2025 as part of the Food for Gaza humanitarian mission, coordinated by the Piedmont Region with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The CEO of Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide, Roberto Ariagno, proposed decorating the prosthesis with Pistoletto's symbol; the company has seventy years of experience in the orthopaedic field.

A prosthesis with Michelangelo Pistoletto's Third Paradise (September 2026)

In September 2026 the Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide made, under an agreement with the Asl, a custom-made carbon-fibre leg prosthesis using 3D printing for a 9-year-old Palestinian child, who arrived in Turin in 2025 after surviving an attack in the Gaza Strip as part of the Food for Gaza humanitarian mission, coordinated by the Piedmont Region.

The prosthesis with Pistoletto's Third Paradise for Asaad (September 2026)

On 16 September 2026, at the Fondazione Omi in Turin, the Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide presented, together with Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, a new prosthesis for Asaad, a 9-year-old Palestinian child who arrived in Turin in 2025 from the Gaza Strip through the Food for Gaza humanitarian mission, coordinated by the Piedmont Region.

A prosthesis with Pistoletto's Third Paradise (September 2026)

The presentation takes place at the Fondazione Omi in Turin, in whose courtyard the Third Paradise of Education is installed.

Prosthesis with Pistoletto's Third Paradise for a Palestinian child (September 2026)

On the prosthesis, made of carbon fibre using 3D printing under an agreement with the Asl, the Third Paradise is depicted, the symbol created by Michelangelo Pistoletto to represent the search for a new balance between nature and artifice. The initiative, born from an idea of the Officina's CEO, Roberto Ariagno, is presented as a gesture of art and solidarity linked to the tragedy of the war in Gaza.

A prosthesis with Pistoletto's Third Paradise for a child who survived Gaza (September 2026)

On the night between 19 and 20 May 2025, a missile attack had struck his family's home in Gaza, killing around ten relatives; the child, who lost his right leg in the attack, was evacuated to Italy as part of the Food for Gaza humanitarian mission, coordinated by the Piedmont Region with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and taken into care by the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin.

Ariagno described the tragedy of Gaza as something that «must shake the conscience of each of us», while the vice-president of the Fondazione Omi, Pierumberto Ferrero, recalled that the organisation already hosts, in its own courtyard, an installation of the Third Paradise of Education.

A prosthesis with Pistoletto's Third Paradise for a child who survived Gaza

In May 2026 the Officina Ortopedica Maria Adelaide, active for seventy years in the orthopaedic field, produced, using 3D printing technology, in carbon fibre and under an agreement with the Asl, a new leg prosthesis for a nine-year-old Palestinian child, who arrived in Turin in 2025 after being seriously injured in an attack in the Gaza Strip.[1] On an idea of the Officina's CEO, Roberto Ariagno, the prosthesis was decorated with the Third Paradise symbol of the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto.[1][2][3][4] The project, presented on 16 September 2026 at the Fondazione Omi in Turin together with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, combines art, technology and solidarity in a message of rebirth and inclusion.[2][3][4]

Sources

TorinoToday — 16 September 2026
la Repubblica Torino — 16 September 2026
ANSA Piemonte — 16 September 2026
Prima Torino — 16 September 2026

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