This is a short summary of the final presentation given at the summer school:
1. Reality of the park [CONTEXT], a tourist’s point of view
we worked in an area called Parco stura, or toxic park, or oxygen park, or actually we don’t know what park or is it a park
the place is a Tarkovsky-like zone area
characteristicpost-indutrial [...]
People
-cycle of users and money (tax to drugs culture) shows how tax payers are paying and that many people are affected, not only those in and around the park
-visualising the cycle and its different constituting parts by means of rings
History future
-social systems kept the connections between actors alive (allotments, overgrowth)
-the place is disconnected through design [...]
People group:
plotted out where they spoke with local people and what about
learned tha people are moving away from the area, that they disregard the park and in eneral have no feelings about what happens in it
a lot of people just work here or use the eastern side of the park (Parco Coletta)
allotment holders: only recetly [...]
People group:
will start by talking to the allotment holders and the users of the community recreation ground, which hopefully will lead to other people
Insecurity:
will interview people from different actor groups to identify vulnerable users: allotment holders, football players, churchgoers, hotel guests, users of the commuity and recreation ground
mobility group:
can collect a feasibility study for a [...]
First impressions after a 2 hour walk in the park:
-shocked by the drug dealing and needles lying about in the park
-feel bad about the communities on the North Side of the river living in precarious conditions with small children and still offering food
-puzzled by why it is not turned into a green park yet,; is [...]
Talk given by Ezio Manzini to introduce the whole summer school and give the overall context:
Hypothesis 1
-emerging problems can be solved starting from the local
i.e. empowering local resources
[there is no global solution if you don't start from the local; globalisation ignores the specificity of place, empowering local resources could help face emerging problems; it is [...]
Clients Brief:
The client wants
-a representation of the perception of the place by the people who live there, because they are currently under-represented, from which their needs can be derived.
-a particiative tool that will facilitate talking about planning to those who live in areas subject to transformation
The client notices that
-it is necessary to avoid technical language
-the [...]
This art project by Alex Clausen is a good example of how one can make issues visible in a specific place. Imagine if all the local places had flag poles in front of them which indicated their ownership or even people’s opinions about the place. How would we relate differently to places? What is it [...]
