SPACES IN TRANSFORMATION

Art and Culture Area, Cariplo Foundation


Unused spaces, abandoned buildings and decaying historical heritage represent both a problem and an opportunity for the country’s revival. The condition is to be able to fully exploit their potential and limit the risk of failure to which ‘top-down’ projects are often vulnerable.

Transitional reuse is a new design approach to urban regeneration, involving communities in experimental reuse actions, testing possible solutions to local needs and promoting processes of adaptation and gradual approach to durable reuse solutions.

Inspired by the important French experience of the last decade in the field of transitional urbanism, the call…