Building B2, Campus Bovisa Durando, Milan
A series of open lectures in the field of interior and spatial design, exploring approaches, tools, and perspectives to interpret and transform the contemporary city, between participatory practices and new forms of reuse.
- Participation and Public Spaces: Approaches, Tools and Best Practices in Milan
March 30, 2026, from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Building B2, B2.1.14, Campus Bovisa Durando, Milan
The course Design for Placemaking Studio of the Master’s Degree in Interior and Spatial Design, taught by Davide Fassi and Emma Puerari, presents the open lecture Participation and Public Spaces: Approaches, Tools and Best Practices in Milan.
The session brings together experts and institutional representatives to explore the strategies and tools used in Milan to promote citizen participation in the design and management of public spaces. Vania Cuppari and AMAT representatives Chiara De Grandi and Carlotta Centimeri, will present innovative methods and successful case studies demonstrating how collaboration between institutions, citizens, and stakeholders can transform urban spaces into more inclusive, functional, and shared environments. The talk provides an overview of Milanese best practices, highlighting the importance of co-design and participatory governance in creating more livable and sustainable cities.
- Kind of Blue, Luciano Crespi
April 23, 2026, at 11:15 am, Building B2, B2.1.8, Bovisa Durando Campus, Milan
The Interior Design Studio of the Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design, taught by Anna Anzani, Cinzia Pagni and Massimo Schinco, presents the open lecture Kind of Blue, Luciano Crespi.
Jazz standards are not forms to be reproduced but shared structures that make improvisation possible. They are open devices in which discipline and freedom, memory and variation coexist and continuously generate one another. In a similar way, the reuse of remnants understood as abandoned or forgotten architectures can be interpreted through the paradigm of the unfinished as a set of non-formal but behavioral standards capable of guiding the project without rigidly determining it. These are not architectural models to be replicated but minimal codes of intervention that allow the traces of time to remain visible, enable addition without erasure, make spaces habitable without completion, and recognise the provisional as an autonomous design value. In this perspective, the unfinished can be understood as a practice of care based on the controlled persistence of the wound. The city is no longer approached as an object of total planning but as an organism to be read starting from its fractures. The city of remnants thus moves away from the rhetoric of regeneration at all costs and instead adopts an attitude of listening in which silence precedes speech and the margin becomes a space of possibility for new forms of life.