Lacittàintorno is the Cariplo Foundation‘s programme which, since 2017, has involved the inhabitants of fragile urban contexts in the reactivation and re-signification of unused or degraded spaces in order to improve the quality of life and create “new city geographies”. The current emergency has highlighted the criticality of the traditional development model, exacerbating social fractures within already fragile communities. In this scenario, through extraordinary calls for proposals, Fondazione Cariplo continues to guarantee its support to the cultural chain, which is strategic for both individual and social well-being. Special attention is dedicated to young people, who are at greater risk of…
Iginio Rossi, Alessandro Bruni, INU – URBIT
in partnership with PREDIF – State representation platform for people with physical disabilities, Spain
The insufficient accessibility for all of our cities is worsening further as a result of the barriers produced by climate change that make, with abnormal temperatures and uncomfortable and tragic weather conditions, the development of the collective and individual life of people in particular referring to processes of aging, marginality and fragility of the population. Processes that, together with those deriving from the health emergency, assume more destabilizing roles and effects on the inclusion and accessibility of cities and…
Gianni Biagi, Director of URBIT
The great global pandemic crisis caused by Covid19 has opened, perhaps rather forced to open, a reflection on the theme of how contemporary cities have been designed and built. A reflection that affects the foundations of the disciplines that are interested in cities and building places for human life. The National Institute of Urban Planning has produced a document on the subject and many scholars have reflected on how to reorganize the city, living, urban living.
This seminar aims to offer a first calm reflection on these topics starting from two introductions (two reflections aloud)…
Matelda Reho, Giulia Lucertini, Iuav University of Venice
The situation created in the face of the COVID 19 emergency has given new acceleration to the debate on food policy, which had already made significant progress in recent years. The pandemic has highlighted with greater force, on the one hand, how much the characteristics of the food system can influence the well-being of the city and interact with its transformations, on the other hand how important are the connections with the surrounding territory and how much the globalization of consumption has up to now distorted this relationship, changing our behavior…
