Landscape of[f] Limits

About

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.

Course leader

DIRECTION: Prof. Sara Protasoni (POLIMI ). COORDINATION: Chiara Locardi, Michele Roda, Sara Anna Sapone. REGISTRATION OFFICE: Anna Rachele Solimando

Target group

The LOL Landscape of[f] Limits Summer School is open to a maximum of 80 students enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree and Master in Architecture.

Course aim

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 of Piacenza.