_ ERSATZ :: adjective, artificial substitute, usually an inferior one; connoting an inferior if not entirely phony substitute; being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation; an artificial substance or article used to replace something; substitute, artificial and often inferior; using substitute components; made in imitation of something natural; something similar in a superficial way; an artificial substitute; imitating or presented as a substitute for something of superior quality; _ "ERSATZ" is what remains after an action, a change event or a process. In a world where reality it's dominated by immediacy, eccentricity and diversity. Fragments, Residual and Marginality, are still able to represent contradictions, dissonances and lacerations of postmodernity; _ Founded in Milan in 2015, Atelier::ERSATZ investigates urban margins through fragment, grafting and overwriting; _