The cultural center IMPA is a very unusual cultural experience. It is located inside a centenary aluminum factory, recovered by the employees in 1998 and still working, The incredible place established in 2000 was due to the political ambition of employees to make IMPA a “cultural town”, including another crazy project in IMPA, a popular university. “The human before the material” is the leitmotiv of this incredible activist organization which has lived a restless story for more than 100 years.