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Triennale and the Municipality announce the winners of the 'call for ideas' for the development of a Public Program which will animate the Urban Center from 25 January. Public presentation tomorrow

Milan, January 15 2020 - Triennale Milano and the Municipality of Milan announce the winners of the call for ideas, launched last October 2019, for the development of a Public Program that will animate the Urban Center in 2020. 

An extensive program will come to life starting from 25 January 2020 thanks to the 13 proposals selected by a scientific committee made up of representatives of the Municipality of Milan, Triennale Milano, Order of Architects of Milan and Polytechnic of Milan.

The call required each participant to present a program of 10 meetings, workshops, talks, conferences, events and/or a research proposal to be developed around the themes of the city and its changes and to delve into emerging themes linked to environmental, urban, cultural and social.

From public space to schools, from gender policies to the Olympics, there are various themes and methods that will be placed at the center of the debate during 130 public moments - 10 for each selected proposal - and which will animate the Urban Center.

The projects will be presented tomorrow, Thursday 16 January, at 18.30 pm in the Triennale by Pierfrancesco Maran, Councilor for Urban Planning of the Municipality of Milan, Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, Lorenza Baroncelli, Artistic Director of Triennale Milano, and by the winning designers.

The winning projects of the Public Program: Pops Up by Francesco Garofalo (Openfabric); Mobility as Urban Factor by MIC Mobility In Chain (Federico Parolotto); In the Perimeter by Sebastiano Leddi and Francesco G. Raganato; Salvatore Porcaro's Nature Observatory in Italy; Milano Versus by Marco Minicucci, Gabriele Leo, Arianna Campanile, Francesca Calvelli, Giulia Pozzi and Mirko Andolina, Caterina Laurenzi and Grazia Mappa; Urban Heritage School by Alessandro De Magistris, Federico Deambrosis, Federica Patti, Cristina Renzoni and Paola Savoldi; Mega - Events and the City by Davide Ponzini, Zachary Jones, Nicole De Togni, Stefano Di Vita; Ex Post city of untitled architecture | PARE Study |+ Agency 2791; Nudge In by Associazione Innovare x Include; The I Ching of What to Do; Hancking Monuments by Pietro Gaglianò and Simona Da Pozzo.

The scientific committee has also selected some Research Projects considered most interesting which will be financed by the Urban Center: 100 Public Spaces for Milan by Chiara Quinzi and Diego Terna, which analyzes citizen participation in the public space project, as an element of full and complete recognisability , personal and collective; Sex & the City by Florencia Andreola and Azzurra Muzzonigro, which presents a gender reading of urban spaces seeking to overcome conflicting gender dualisms.

“We are very satisfied with the quality of the proposals presented – declares councilor Maran –. We want the Urban Center to become a place where Milanese people can meet, discuss and bring their contribution to the public debate on the city which is growing from an urban, social and cultural point of view and the variety of themes proposed allows it to interest a large audience" .

“The location of the Urban Center within the Triennale Milano – states Stefano Boeri – represented a great opportunity to create a documentation and research center on Milan and the future of the world's cities. With these proposals, we wanted to make the Urban Center an inclusive space for narration and planning about the city, capable of offering moments of dialogue and discussion for local communities, professionals, companies, and also for the public".

Each of the winners is awarded a contribution for the organisation, planning and setting up of the 10 meetings quantified in total at 7.000 euros.

The 13 proposals and the names selected

Pops Up

POPS (Privately Owned Public Spaces) are public spaces created and managed by private individuals. The program presented by landscape architect Francesco Garofalo (Openfabric) includes a series of workshops, talks and conferences aimed at debating the future of this type of open space in Milan, analyzing the cities that began to address the issue decades ago.

Mobility as Urban Factor

The meetings promoted by MIC Mobility In Chain by architect Federico Parolotto focus on the theme of mobility and public space, analyzing contradictory elements, sometimes difficult to reconcile, linked to the change in urban dynamics, also in relation to the environmental crisis we are experiencing .  

In the Perimeter

The key to the story proposed by the publisher Sebastiano Leddi and the author and director Francesco G. Raganato is that of photography, that is, the use of the image to tell, analyze and hypothesize the transformation of Milan in all its aspects, from the architecture to people, from the center to the suburbs.

100 Public Spaces for Milan - selected as "Research Project"

The formula proposed by architects Chiara Quinzi and Diego Terna includes 10 workshops with 10 selected students, led by local and international tutors. The objective is to produce 100 maquettes of 9 types of public spaces in Milan (squares, streets, parks, cycle paths, water bears...) + 1 (spaces that do not have a clear current definition, but which will be new types of public space in the future) .

Italy Nature Observatory

The project by urban planner Salvatore Porcaro aims to take stock of the state of protection and conservation of Italy's natural heritage. We will begin with a reflection on the context in which the first rules for the protection of the landscape were born, various protected areas present on Italian territory will be described and local policies will be compared, we will proceed with educational workshops with the aim of describing the state of places, bring out current critical issues and identify intervention strategies and actions.

Milan Versus

Is it possible to refer to a Milan model as a strategy to be applied to other centres? How does the city compare to the rest of Italy and Europe? What are the reference models for Milan? The proposal by architects Marco Minicucci, Gabriele Leo, Arianna Campanile, Francesca Calvelli, Giulia Pozzi, Mirko Andolina and Grazia Mappa intends to question the narrative of Milan by building a laboratory in which to assemble a choral story of the city.

Urban Heritage School

A series of seminars, conferences and moments of discussion on the topic of school. The basic idea of ​​the architects Alessandro De Magistris, Federico Deambrosis, Federica Patti, Cristina Renzoni and Paola Savoldi is that together with the construction of a more in-depth and aware public discourse on the value of the school, it is necessary to put educational spaces at the center as one of the cornerstones of possible urban regeneration processes.

Mega - Events and the City

The relationship between the Olympics and cities/regions is changing. Recent applications limit investment, reuse existing infrastructure and aim for regeneration. In view of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics, the Mega-Events and the City cycle promoted by Polytechnic professors Davide Ponzini, Zachary Jones, Nicole De Togni and Stefano Di Vita will fuel the public debate with international cases and experts.

Sex & the City – selected as “Research Project”

What are the factors that generate gender inequalities within our cities? How does the government of Milan relate to gender issues and how could it do so to improve women's lives? Through 10 meetings, the proposal of architects Azzurra Muzzonigro and Florencia Natalia Andreola aims to build a framework capable of integrating the gender dimension in reflection on the city.

Former Post city

There are parts of the city that have not known the hand of a great designer and yet possess a strong identity and are emancipated as "places" through the instrument of their own narrative. The untitled architecture project | Studio PARE |+ Agency 2791 identifies 10 "ex post" on which the program of interventions, talks and conferences is structured to build the systems of meaning of a rediscovered urban domesticity.

Nudge In

From the municipal market of Lorenteggio to the Ringhiera theatre, passing through the shared garden of San Vittore, the project of the Innovare x Includere Association proposes 10 meetings to talk about 10 places that are almost symbolic of the urban, cultural and social transformation of Milan, often born from projects of social innovation, on which to discuss to understand what is missing and what can be done to make them emerge with greater vigor.

i ching

The series of meetings proposed by the Che Fare agency aims to explore 10 lines of transformation of the cultural sphere of Milan with some of the main researchers and protagonists of these changes coming from the most diverse sectors: urban planning, design, sociology, economics, organizational studies, cultural management , contemporary art.

Hacking Monuments

The meeting program promoted by Pietro Gaglianò and Simona Da Pozzo is based on the research launched in 2016 in the Milan area on the perception and use that citizens, artists and activists make of monuments. The objective is to implement and share it in a participatory manner through talks, workshops and a final mapping of the most significant monuments for citizens.