There are 50 students involved from Monday 4 June until Friday in an architectural planning and space design workshop in the Piacenza headquarters of the Politecnico di Milano.
“There are girls and boys who study at the Polytechnic, both in the Milanese and Piacenza campuses – explains Anna Anzani, professor of Interior Architecture and organizer of the initiative – but also many from international schools. In particular fromEsa St. Luc of Brussels and the Fh Joanneum of Graz. A great opportunity for exchange and internationalization.” In fact, with the students, teachers and researchers will come to the city, called to give proposals, ideas and visions for a central and much debated place like Casali Square.
The occasion is precisely the interventions that the municipal administration (partner of the initiative) is launching for the redevelopment of the public space and the buildings that surround it, starting from the Stables of Maria Luigia.
The theme song of the workshop, P4P, emphasizes the public and collective character of the space that young students of Architecture and Design of Interiors will try to reimagine, also with the sensitivity of those who – by age and sensitivity – live and inhabit urban areas with renewed rhythms and ambitions compared to a few years ago.
Also interesting in this sense is the involvement of the “Riusiamo l’Italia” Foundation which is approaching some specific realities in the Piacenza area with the aim of proposing to the community strategies for the reuse and redevelopment of disused and abandoned areas.
The initiative, supported by the Polytechnic of Milan also thanks to internationalization funds, will take place in Vegezzi Pavilion of the Arata Campus in via Scalabrini. But it won’t be permanent. In addition to the inspections of the project sites, students will be involved in numerous events capable of transmitting and communicating the identity of the Piacenza area.
The work is expected to close on Friday morning with the public presentation of the results of the work in the form of architectural projects for Piazza Casali.
