DIRECTION
Sara Protasoni| POLIMI    

COORDINATION
Chiara Locardi 
Michele Roda 
Sara Anna Sapone 

REGISTRATION OFFICE 
Anna Rachele Solimando  

EXSECUTIVE BOARD
Antonella Contin  
Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira  
Andrea Oldani 
Matteo Poli 

DESIGN-ATELIER LEADERS

Pedro Campos Costa 
Karim Nader 
Lina Malfona  



 
 
 
 
  

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After focusing on the Po riverfront within the last edition (the subject was: Po River Regained, The New Piacenza Landscape) LOL2021 moves from topics discussed in UNHabitat Last Report (“Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future”). Opening words of UNHabitat Dossier are intensively describing conditions of contemporary urban realities. And Piacenza can be seen as an exemplar case study. The workshop is looking at some in-between areas among the river bank and the historical city center, characterized by high centrality, strong accessibility but also a lack in landscape and urban quality. LOL looks forward to testing the integration of ecology, nature, cultural, and collective functions among a process oriented to trigger a process for a Piacenza post-COVID: towards a more just, green and healthy future.

The Piacenza territory – intended as topical and paradigmatic case-study - is object of the intensive design experience. The students will be called to work in groups, assisted and addressed by a teaching staff, about projects able to regenerate some areas on the northern edge of the town. The name of the didactic and research experience, “Landscape of[f] Limits”, stresses exactly this special condition of a site, characterized by limits, both physical and virtual, strongly impacting on the quality and identity of the collective space, that asks for a general rethinking. A series of conferences and internal lectures will elevate the scientific quality of the workshop, discussing about contemporary topics and issues of landscape and architectural international culture.

 

Workshop kick-off: August 31st, 2021.

Final projects presentation: September 11st, 2021.

 

 


Promoters/Sponsors/Supporter
 
 
   
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
School of Architecture Urban Planning and Construction Engineering
DAStU Department


POLIPIACENZA
Piacenza Campus
PIACENZA ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS P.L.a.C.  
Patronages
REGIONE EMILIA ROMAGNA MUNICIPALITY OF
PIACENZA
PROVINCIAL
GOVERNMENT
CONFINDUSTRIA PIACENZA

COLDIRETTI
PIACENZA

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
 
BANK OF PIACENZA