Nuovi spazi della memoria

Friday, April 24th, 2015

Nuovi spazi della memoria. Due progetti per la Resistenza e la Liberazione a Milano, Alessandro Menini e Marco Mazzola (POLMI APR2015).

Come allora il progetto per la memoria tenere vivo il ricordo e costruire identità e futuri più consapevoli del proprio passato? È possibile andare oltre le forme della commemorazione classica che sembrano avere perso oggi molta della loro efficacia? Questa tesi prova a rispondere a tali domande analizzando il caso studio della memoria della Resistenza e della Liberazione a Milano, fenomeni complessi la cui eredità è ancora oggi combattuta e irrisolta (web: MI4345).

Architecture of integration

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Architecture of integration by Ceylan Sener (POLIMI, April 2013)

A research work to investigate possible architectonic interventions to upgrade schools architecture and their interiors in relationship with the multicultural society we live in now in Italy. case study: Milano, scuola in via Paravia.

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“MAC” exhibition

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

WS: Milano Difficult voids

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

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Traces of war present in the urban foundation of cities as in landscapes represent a patrimony difficult to manage and have a relationship with because they are linked to unpleasant memories, which are often traumatic.  They raise issues of primary importance, such as the ones connected to collective identity and collective vs personal memory.
On one hand, people would like to obliterate all these traumatic places and memories, but at the same time there is the fear of losing part of one’s history and identity, which is partly comprised of these scars. There must be a third possibility, a “third space”, as H.K. Bhabha would call it: a space to develop a different design process regarding the tangible and intangible patrimony generated by the conflicts that can combine to have a therapeutic effect and be a catalyst for the emergence of museums.  This is the direction that the museography of “20th Century Conflict Archaeological Heritage” is going to.

And this is the design task we propose to Domus Academy students for this year: a challange to work on some WWII voids in the city centre of Milan. To change for our present and their future.

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