Meridies
giovanni-ferrari.org is the website of Associazione Giovanni Ferrari APS: it preserves the cultural legacy of Giovanni Ferrari — school director, pedagogist, author and poet of the Gulf of Policastro — and hosts the association's events, from the Meridies — Villammare (Fuori) Festival to the Meridies Giovanni Ferrari Award. We rebuilt three WordPress sites frozen for years into a single static Next.js site on Cloudflare, reorganising the association, its works, the archive and the events into a structure people can actually navigate. Content lives as version-controlled files validated at build time: missing data blocks publication instead of going live as a broken page. The Festival is modelled as reusable editions, and the homepage switches by itself between event mode and institutional identity depending on the calendar. Live on its own domain with room to spare before the festival deadline. Logika.studio is the technical partner: design, development, infrastructure and content management.
The problem
The association had its memory spread across three WordPress sites frozen for years, with navigation so deeply nested that the archive of works was effectively unreachable and no event was ever highlighted. Meanwhile the festival and the first edition of the Award had a non-negotiable date: the programme had to be online and shareable before then, without raising running costs.
How we tackled it
We rebuilt the site from scratch as a static site, absorbing the content of the three existing sites instead of migrating them blindly: an automated check makes sure no page of the old site disappears without a destination or an explicit decision. The structure was reorganised around what the association actually does — the association, works and archive, events, publishing — with the Festival modelled as reusable editions.
Technical choices
Next.js and TypeScript on Cloudflare, chosen to keep running costs at or below the previous setup. Content lives as version-controlled files validated at build time: an unexpected value is a build error, not a published page with an empty field. Decorative illustrations and the narration of the institutional videos are AI-generated, with provenance declared. Automated tests and content checks run before every publication.
What it includes
A Festival section with the full programme and a page for each appointment, award pages with rules and roll of honour, people pages shared between events and awards, an archive of works, and an Events section that highlights the next appointment by computing it from the date. Social previews, structured data and technical SEO across the site, with mobile rendering verified. Ongoing content management stays with Logika.studio.