Ècole du Renouvellement Urbain Institut de Formation de la Maîtrise d’Ouvrage de la ville

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Placemaking in : a great challenge for -Gasometri

Marika Fior 2015 October, 16th INDEX 1. MANDATE OF WORK AND AIMS Politecnico di Milano Research Group 2. BOVISA-GASOMETRI AS A CHALLENGE FOR MILAN Gabriele Pasqui, Francesca Cognetti, Laura Pogliani 3. STATUS OF BOVISA-GASOMETRI: CONTEXT | TRANSFORMATION AREA Simona Beolchi, Marika Fior, Diana Giudici 4. WORKING METHOD and Davide Fortini

5. ACTORS INVOLVED IN THE LISTENING ACTIVITY 6. FIRST LISTENING PHASE: ACTIVITIES | INTERVIEWS | ACTORS PERCEPTIONS | SYNTHESIS 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS): MAIN PLACES | TERRITORY’S TALES | PROBLEMATIC ISSUES | PROPOSALS 8. DISCUSSION WITH TERRITORIAL ACTORS 9. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (TERRITORIAL ACTORS): PROPOSALS 10. LAST MEETING TO SHARE STRATEGIES FOR ATU BOVISA-GASOMETRI

11. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE: SHARED PROPOSALS LISTENING 12. FINAL GUIDELINES FOR TRANSFORMATION OF ATU BOVISA-GASOMETRI 13. OTHER ACTIVITIES 14. STARTING THE SECOND PHASE: PARTICIPATORY PROJECT 15. VISITING BOVISA-GASOMETRI: THE PLACE FOR THE FUTURE PARK 16. SHARING INFORMATIONS: RECLAMATION AND ARBOREAL RELIEF 17. SUMMARIZE ATU BOVISA-GASOMETRI CONDITIONS 18. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT: TELLING YOUR IDEA ABOUT BOVISA-GASOMETRI PARK 19. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT: SHARED STRATEGIES FOR THE PARK 20. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT: 2 SCENARIES 21. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT: NATURAL PARK

PARTICIPATORY 22. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT: PARK WITH FACILITIES

23. WHAT HAPPEN NOW? 1. MANDATE OF WORK AND AIMS

The listening and participatory process aims at sharing the decisional process that will bring to the transformation of the Bovisa-Gasometri area. Guidelines for the future transformation of the area will be defined through a participatory process.

The 2 aims are:

1 PHASE • identifying the expectations and needs related to transformation of the entire transformation area (Ambito di Trasformazione Urbana - ATU) LISTENING

2 PHASE • designing through a participatory process the public park included in the transformation area PARTICIPATORY 2. BOVISA-GASOMETRI AS A CHALLENGE FOR MILAN EXPO

ATU Bovisa-Gasometri 3. STATUS OF BOVISA-GASOMETRI | Context

Parco Certosa neighborhood

Bovisa neighborhood

Politecnico

FN Bovisa Politecnico Negri Institute Villapizzone neighborhood 3. STATUS OF BOVISA-GASOMETRI | Transformation area

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS • A2A heating plant

CONTAMINATION • In 2001/02 the area was included in the list of Sites of National Interest (SIN) and in 2013 reclassified as a Site of Regional Interest (SIR). • In 2013 the allocation of resources of the City Plan was approved providing funds for € 5 million to decontaminate the area so called Lotto 1 (plot 1) 4. WORKING METHOD

1. LISTENING ACTIVITIES First phase of interviews with selected actors according to their activities in Bovisa, Villapizzone and Parco Certosa neighborhoods in order to collect, primarily, questions and suggestions.

2. EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES Presentation and exchange of the main issues emerged as outcomes from the first phase of listening. Discussion with stakeholders on assumptions of transformation.

3. INFORMATION ACTIVITIES Thematic table about contamination of the area, on remediation techniques and on choices made by the Administration; and about the presence of wild vegetation.

4. WORKSHOP Structured moments of work with citizens involved in the listening activities: participatory design of the park that will insist on Lotto 1 and debate around the role of the university campus in the transformation of the area. 5. ACTORS INVOLVED IN THE LISTENING ACTIVITY 6. FIRST LISTENING PHASE | Activities

Between October 2014 and February 2015:

1. Meetings with the municipal administration and Councils of Zone 8 and 9

2. Interviews with local actors

3. Presentation of the listening activities outside schools located in Bovisa and Villapizzone

4. Disclosure of the activities through local newspapers and the website www.ascolto.gasometri-bovisa.polimi.it 6. FIRST LISTENING PHASE | Interviews Interviewers: 1. Don Giacomo | Parrocchia Santa Maria del Buon Consiglio [Bovisa] 2. Giancarlo Esposti | Circolo ACLI Bovisa [Bovisa] 3. Raffaele Taddeo | Centro culturale multietnico La Tenda [Bovisa] 4. Francesco Cosenza e Paolo Valabrega, Biblioteca -Bovisa [Bovisa] 5. Francesca Grazzini, Matteo Lonigro, Francesco Radino, Guido Tassinari | Comitato La Goccia [Bovisa] 6. Marta Cabrini, Aldo Sachero | Teatro Bovisa [Bovisa] 7. Luca Belloni, Maurilio Pogliani, Valentina Sachero | Comitati per Milano Zona 9 [Bovisa] 8. Giorgio Bianchini, Pierluigi Maruca | Associazione Parco Certosa [Parco Certosa - PRU Palizzi] 9. Fiorella Pirola | ANPI Bovisa Severgnini [Bovisa] 10. Daniela Rossi, Roberto Zuccolin | Associazione Luca Rossi [Bovisa] 11. Laura Barbirato | Scuola elementare e media Maffucci [Bovisa] 12. Don Lorenzo Negri | Parrocchia San Martino in Villapizzone [Villapizzone] 13. Paola Piras | Cooperativa Farsi Prossimo [Bovisa] 14. Guglielmo Spettante | Pedalando in Zona 9 [Bovisa] 15. Renzo Castellani | Cooperativa Edificatrice Bovisa [Bovisa] 16. Lorenzo Pistocchini, Elena Goldi, Elisabetta Gaini | Comunità famiglia Villapizzone [Villapizzone] 17. Federico Rizzo | Associazione Orti di Cascina Albana [] 18. Alessandro Rizeq | Associazione GAIA [Bovisa] 19. Andrea Spinelli | Rappresentante assegnisti Dipartimento di Energia del Politecnico di Milano [ATU Bovisa-Gasometri] 20. Alessandro Oggioni, Laura Belloni, Rolando Indrò | Condominio di Piazza Villapizzone 1 [Villapizzone] 21. Rinaldo Venturelli | Comitato Bovisasca [Bovisasca] 22. Giuseppe Borra, Cesare Parolini, Giovanni Parolini | Condominio di Via Giampietrino [ATU Bovisa-Gasometri] 23. Silvio Garattini, Mario Salmona | Istituto di ricerca farmaceutica Mario Negri [ATU Bovisa-Gasometri] 24. G. Barbarito, G. Bonomi, F. D'argento, L. Galateo, L. Montini, M. Praolini | Condominio di Via Siccoli [ATU Bovisa-Gasometri] 6. FIRST LISTENING PHASE | Actors perceptions Method: the image of neighborhoods and transformation area through the eyes of interviewees 6. FIRST LISTENING PHASE | Synthesis Method: summary sheet to be validated by interviewers 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS) | Main places 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS) | Territory’s tales BOVISA

Historical working neighborhood with a strong political tradition Reduction of aggregative places Good integration between historical inhabitants and immigrants Piazza Bausan is the core of the neighborhood The university is not integrated in the neighborhood and there is no communication between citizens and students Some recent residential development are considered out of scale 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS) | Territory’s tales VILLAPIZZONE Historical village included into Milan area Small public spaces; Piazza Villapizzone, with its church, is the core of the neighborhood The garden of the «Family house» is a meeting place There is no lack of green spaces because of the proximity with Certosa Park The precence of many social houses point out the progressive impoverishment Improper uses of public spaces by new communities, somehow protecting those places 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS) | Territory’s tales PARCO CERTOSA

Is the area that has changed the most in the last years, from refinery to residential neighborhood of 3000 inhabitants

Parco Certosa is close to Bovisa, Villapizzone and neighborhoods but separated from these by the railway infrastructures

It has many problems related to vehicular accessibility and public transports

Green areas are a resource, despite of the problems related to protection

The supermarket makes impossible the survival of small commercial activities 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS) | Territory’s tales ATU BOVISA - GASOMETRI

The transformation area is considered as isolated Inhabitants and workers know that the area is contaminated Gasometer is a landmark The transformation area is considered an opportunity for the renewal of bordering neighborhoods 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS) | Problematic issues 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS) | Proposals 7. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (LOCAL ACTORS) | Proposals SERVICES BARRIERS

GREEN AREAS LIVE AND WORK

CONNECTIONS

HERITAGE 8. DISCUSSION WITH TERRITORIAL ACTORS

LIST OF TERRITORIAL ACTORS • A2A S.p.A. [presente] • Politecnico di Milano [presente] • EuroMilano S.p.A. [presente] • Esselunga S.p.A. [presente] • IRCCS Mario Negri [presente] • Assolombarda [presente] • Legambiente • WWF • Italia Nostra [presente] • Fondo Ambiente Italiano • Regione Lombardia - DG Infrastrutture e mobilità • S.r.l. • Ferrovie Nord Milano - Gruppo FNM S.p.A. • Azienda Treasporti Milanesi S.p.A. • Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di Milano • di Milano [presente] • Consiglio di Zona 9 [presente] • Consiglio di Zona 8 • Metropolitana Milanese S.p.A. [presente] • Agenzia Mobilità Ambiente e Territorio S.r.l. [presente] 9. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE (TERRITORIAL ACTORS) | Proposals 10. LAST MEETING TO SHARE STRATEGIES FOR ATU BOVISA-GASOMETRI

Public arena Functions and services

Bonderies/flows Green spaces 11. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE | Shared proposals 11. OUTCOMES OF THE FIRST PHASE | Shared proposals

REUSE OF THE EXISTING BUILDINGS (east side Bovisa) • new production activities in abandoned factories (Livellara) • new public facilities close to residential areas • preserve the ecological connections between north and south • facilitate vehicles’ access to overpass

RELATIONS BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS • create connections between Bovisa, Villapizzone, Parco Certosa neighborhoods and the transformation area • relate Bovisa station to Villapizzone and Certosa stations • value Via Lambruschini as a public axes

GREEN CONNECTIONS AND ENVIRONMENT • preserve as much as possible the trees which are located in the area that will be decontaminated • provide bird watching areas

NEW FUNCTIONS: TECHNOLOGY AND SPORT • provide new functions related to sustainable productions and research • improve sport facilities 12. FINAL GUIDELINES FOR TRANSFORMATION OF ATU BOVISA-GASOMETRI 13. OTHER ACTIVITIES PUBLIC MEETINGS

GUIDED VISIT TO THE AREA

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN 14. STRATING THE SECOND PHASE | Participatory Project WORKSHOP • Starting the partecipatory project (Segantini Park experience in neighborhood)

• Discussion about «TELL YOUR IDEA ABOUT BOVISA-GASOMETRI PARK»

• Construction of pojectual issues (uses/functions, users, performance)

• Definitions of 2 scenaries for the park

SHARING • Guided tour of the area

• Open conference about reclamations and about arboreal relief 15. VISITING BOVISA-GASOMETRI | The place for the future Park 16. SHARING INFORMATIONS | Reclamations (grey areas) and arboreal relief (dots) 17. SUMMARIZE ATU BOVISA-GASOMETRI CONTITIONS 18. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT | Telling your idea about Bovisa-Gasometri Park 18. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT | Shared strategies for the ATU and the Park REUSE It is necessary to reuse existing buildings and structures and to find another place for the new building of the Politecnico di Milano (Zen building), (a minority think that Zen is not a problem for the park).

IDENTITY Restore the story and the memory of the place and give a new meaning to the identity of Bovisa-Gasometri. This is the aim of the transformation and the reason why people want to preserve the gas silos such as landmarks. (temporary roof; small lakes; observatory) .

RELATIONSHIPS Re-thinking and improving the physical connections between ATU and its territorial context using paths and green corridors. The new park must be crossed by bycicle itineraries and cars are forbidden (deleting the provisory roads in the south part of the park) , but it is necessary to mantain the prevision of metrotramvia line.

VITALITY Making the park a comfortable place, open to different uses and users but it is necessary to presidiate it. Many people think that students of Politecnico could be succesful element for the vitality of the park. The sicurity topic had seen different positions: somebody thinks that the park have to be closed; others think that park could be open during the day and closed during the night.

ENFORCED GREEN BELT ALONG RAILWAY LINES Creating wooded bands along perimetral zone around ATU Bovisa-Gasometri because it is possible to improve the environmental and natural quality. 20. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT | 2 Scenaries 21. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT | Natural Park SCENARIO 1

Comitato La Goccia Comitati X Milano Italia Nostra Orti di Cascina Albana Parco Nord Cittadini 22. PARTICIPATORY PROJECT | Park with facilities SCENARIO 2

ANPI Bovisa Associazione Parco Certosa Associazione Luca Rossi Associazione Teatro Bovisa Condominio di Via Lambruschini Cittadini Condominio Villapizzone Istituto Maffucci Centro multietnico La Tenda 23. WHAT HAPPEN NOW? | Report, final seminar and competition notice The path of active listening and participatory planning has not been easy. The interaction with the citizens it was marked by a conflict against the municipal administration, especially in relation to the issue of reclamation.

The Report delivered to the City Council, is a useful tool because it is the outcome of a non-linear path and in some cases conflict. At least four kinds of interesting topics are emerged: • Information on local issues and problems; • ATU as a potentiality for “stitching urban neighborhoods”; • The need to maintain a relationship with the site history and to safeguard the process of naturalization of the area; • Proposals also allow to define forms of direct involvement of citizens in the care of public spaces.

The work presented in the Report is not a finished project, and even a book of guidelines. Instead, it is a material for the project, which returns a framework of expectations and questions that need to be taken into account both in the activity of the redefinition of implementation of the transformation, both in the actual design of the park planned on the lot in the process of remediation.

In November, 2015 DAStU decides to organize a final seminar to show the results of this research activity to colleagues, administration and citizens.

The Report will also be used by the design workshop (competition) that will be activated by the Politecnico di Milano for the definition of the Masterplan on the ATU-Bovisa gasometers.

Interaction with citizens and collective actors can not say certainly ended. www.ascolto.gasometri-bovisa.polimi.it Ècole du Renouvellement Urbain Institut de Formation de la Maîtrise d’Ouvrage de la ville

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Research Group Gabriele Pasqui, Francesca Cognetti, Laura Pogliani Simona Beolchi, Marika Fior, Diana Giudici With Davide Fortini [email protected]