Milan Green Week. A new inclusive play area and 200 plants along the Lambro banks
The “Playgrounds for all” project makes the gardens in via Martinetti accessible to all. With the ReLambro project, an urban forestry intervention together with citizens
Milan, September 28 2019 – A new play area for all children in Municipality 7 and 200 new plants in Municipality 3. These are some of the legacies to the city of this edition of Milan Green Week.
The new inclusive play area in via Martinetti was inaugurated on Saturday 28 September. The intervention is part of the "Gioco al Centro - Playgrounds for all" project launched last year by the Fondazione di Comunità Milano, Città, Sud Ovest, Sud Est, Martesana and the Municipality of Milan with the aim of creating equipped areas accessible with inclusive rides and games in the public parks of the city's 9 municipalities.
After the Montanelli Gardens (2018) and Villa Finzi (June 2019), the area of the gardens in via Martinetti in municipality 7 is also accessible to all children. The area of approximately 2.700 square meters has been equipped with colored anti-trauma flooring, the Becky carousel, the Fun City Village with numerous sensory panels, a slide, two turrets and the Playsense double slide. The area is completed by two swings, the Butterfly with climbing panels, the metallophone to create new music and rhythms and a colored rubber dragon. The design of the park saw the involvement of the Green Department, the Associations Delegates to the Permanent Disability Table and the Mayor's delegate for Accessibility policies, Lisa Noja. The working group made use of the pedagogical skills of the L'abilità onlus association, of the specific skills of ANFFAS, of UILDM and LEDHA Milan, of UICI and of the international experience of InterCampus.
"We wanted to inaugurate this new inclusive park during the Milan Green Week because the city must be green and accessible for everyone – declares the Green Councilor Pierfrancesco Maran -. We are working together with the Community Foundation, which we thank, so that in every Municipality there is an inclusive play area where children can play on equal terms, the next ones will be in municipalities 3 and 6. This commitment made with the city is accompanied by other interventions made possible by the collaboration between public and private to make the parks and barrier-free gardens, just on Thursday we inaugurated the redeveloped Russoli park with games accessible to all".
“Ensuring that all the children of our city have an accessible and inclusive place to play is a commitment of civility – comments the Councilor of the Milan Community Foundation Edoardo Andreoli – it is the objective of our project. It is a commitment that we extend to those who share our commitment and we ask the Milanese to get involved to make their own contribution to the Solidarity Fund opened by the Foundation, by joining our forces with yours we will be able to create beautiful places where children can play together and learn to grow.”
The inauguration of the new inclusive play area is one of the many events of the Milan Green Week, which saw the planting by citizens and associations of 200 new plants typical of the Lombard flora along the bank of the Lambro river.
The intervention, promoted by Ersaf and Legambiente together with the Municipality of Milan and Conspetti di Fiume, falls within the scope of the ReLambro project, which from 2021 promotes the revitalization of the Lambro river ecological corridor through ecological enhancement and urban forestation interventions.
After this intervention, in the coming months it is planned to create a flowery meadow composed of wild species of flowering herbaceous plants and annual and perennial grasses, characterized by high attractiveness for pollinating insects and species with great ecosystem value.
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Updated: 28/09/2019