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The project is conceived by Milano&Partners, created in collaboration with the Art Office in Public Spaces and co-financed by Fondazione di Comunità Milano 

After Bovisa, Portello, Lorenteggio, Città Studi, Porta Romana, Gallaratese, Corvetto, Quarto Oggiaro and Baggio, the project will continue with the murals of Barona and Nolo and others to follow in 2022

Milan, 1 December 2021 – The "A name in every neighborhood" initiative conceived by Milano&Partners, created in collaboration with the Art in Public Spaces Office and aimed at creating a mural work in the neighborhoods of Milan with the name of the place as protagonist, arrives at its ninth appointment also graphically mark the identity of the many souls of the city.

From a realization and artistic point of view, the project is managed by the Art Office in Public Spaces, which also wanted to ensure gender equality in the choice of artists and curators. The primary objective of the initiative is to provide an artistic and creative contribution to all neighborhoods, in order to strengthen their identity, directly involving the community in the conception, and often also in the creation, of the mural.

As happened with the Baggio mural, inaugurated today in the presence of the Councilor for Culture Tommaso Sacchi and the Councilor for School of Municipality 7 Erica Soana. This is the ninth appointment of this project and the students of the "Primo Levi" secondary school in via Pistoia designed the work based on their way of seeing the neighborhood they live in. The work was then painted by Alice Lotti, also with the contribution of the students themselves, together with the production house Collater.al.

The project began last June with the work "Bovisa makers" in via Cosenz, signed by the young artist Sorte. The artistic operation continued during the summer with the creations of the artist Rendo al Portello (via Gardella), of Napal, in Lorenteggio (via dei Gigli), of Serena Confalonieri in Città Studi (via Bassini).

In September, on the occasion of "Milan Art week" – which for the first time hosted a specific program linked to public art – was the turn of the mural “Porta Romana bella” signed by Marco Goran Romano in Corso Lodi.

We then arrived in Gallaratese, with Pao and Luz who collaborated in the planning and painting phase with the volunteer organizations of the neighborhood, creating the "participatory" mural visible today in via Appennini.

In October we made a stop in Corvetto on the imposing overpass with a work signed by Pablo Pinxit and Loris Lillo, characterized by some iconic elements of the neighborhood, from the Signurun de Milan to the Proust armchair by Alessandro Mendini whose studio is a point of reference of the area.

In Quarto Oggiaro, the facade of the local library in via Otranto was reinvented by Lucia Biancalana and tells us, in images, the identifying words of the neighborhood identified through a survey at the library: "growth", "green" and "young" are the recurring concepts that emerged.

Neighborhood murals will be created in Barona and Nolo in the coming months, with creative couples who will continue to respect gender equality in the project. 

"During this first intense year of work, the project involved artists, curators and historic Milanese street art production houses who were able to integrate talents from other fields, pushing them to experiment with urban art, generating new creative groups and exchange of skills – declared the councilor for Culture Tommaso Sacchi – Furthermore, in an artistic language traditionally very oriented towards the prevalence of gender, one of the challenges of the project was to increase female representation among artists and curators".

"A name in every neighborhood" grows not only in the number of creations, but also in a collaborative sense, especially where the murals are located on public buildings, such as schools, libraries, public housing. "The objective – underlined councilor Sacchi – is to engage the inhabitants and users of the area's services as much as possible, transforming the residents' sense of belonging into a work of art".

The involvement of some Milanese universities is also expected: New Academy of Fine Arts and University of Milan support the project to carry out research on the neighbourhoods, reporting the architectural, artistic and cultural expressions characterizing each territory, to consciously design identifying works of urban art . The places now painted with the neighborhood mural will be the subject of collaboration agreements, so as to guarantee, in the years to come, the maintenance of the works, or their redefinition, always in a logic of valorisation of the identity of the territories.

The initiative will continue in 2022 and aims to give all city neighborhoods their own "graphic door" capable of representing a name and everything that the specific territory represents. 

The project "A name in every neighborhood" is conceived by Milano&partners and the Art Office in the public spaces of the Municipality of Milan with the contribution of Fondazione di Comunità Milano, and is part of the broader communication campaign "Neighborhood by neighborhood", conceived and curated by YesMilano.