Feeding Milan, energies for change.A design experiment for collaboration and conviviality

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Slow Food Italy, Politecnico di Milano, INDACO dept.University of Gastronomic Sciences

Milan, 2010-ongoing

Key words: Regions, rural-urban links

Context: The Agricultural Park South Milan is characterized of industrial farming. By steering local agriculture towards sustainability and innovation principles that address both farmers and city dwellers, it could become a reference for the upcoming Milan Expo 2015.

Project: It aims to design a system of services and infrastructure to redefine for an efficient and effective agri-food chain. A scenario of “City-Supported Agriculture”.

Design role: Activism: make things happen soon. Co-creation and building capacities from within. Observing and probing emerging practices. Using new media. Generating scenarios as stories. Creating convergence. Supporting Design Thinking. Building capacity in the community