Plural Milan, ecology and sustainable mobility at the heart of the city’s development
Envisioning Translocality
Enabling Institutions
Enforcing Practices
A great evening discussing Grande Parco Forlanini in Milan, and how ecology and sustainable mobility are at the heart of the city’s development! With Grazia Concilio, Gabriele Pasqui, Patrizia Scrugli (Politecnico di Milano), Marialisa Santi, Angela Panza (Fondazione Ordine Architetti PPC Milano), Stefano D’Armento (architect), Sonia Luisi (Metropolitan City Sustainable Mobility Service), Paola Viganò (architect and professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and IUAV University of Venice) and Gianni Ambrogio Dapri (OAU Officina di Architettura e Urbanistica).
On Thursday, 8 May 2025, was held the 2nd meeting of ‘Milano Plurale. Sguardi e progetti’ (Plural Milan. Views and projects), a programme that seeks to explore, in five evenings, different dimensions of living in Milan.
The speakers shared their views on the challenges Milan faces concerning sustainability. The consensus? Moving and breathing are essential human “practices”, and currently the city doesn’t allow these to be done healthily.
Grazia Concilio underlined how important it is to share a vision on this topic and to work actively to challenge conflicts that may arise, be they from citizens reluctant to behavioural changes, institutional barriers, or private interests.
Paola Viganò invited us to think about the fact that ecological changes should be welcomed and easy to implement. Yet, currently, they are made rigid and complex and, when implemented, are often of very poor quality. Why?
Grande Parco Forlanini is more than just a neighbourhood parc, it is a metropolitan infrastructure linking the Duomo di Milano to Idroscalo on bike lanes, it is an area offering citizens a place to breathe, cycle and walk at the heart of the city. It is crucial to use the environmental shift as an opportunity for Grande Parco Forlianini and the valuable urban landscape it represents!
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More about ‘Milano Plurale. Sguardi e progetti’ (Plural Milan. Views and projects):
The objective of the programme is to build a platform for open and informed discussion on the dynamics and processes taking place in the city of Milan, understood as a wide territory with porous borders, irreducible to the administrative boundaries of the city.
Five evenings explore different dimensions of living in ‘plural Milan’, with a focus on urban spaces and the ordinary practices of those who use and inhabit them.
