From 15th to 30th April, Milan, Bologna, Genoa and Venice will host “Cara Casa”, the first travelling Festival dedicated to the forms of contemporary living.
The programme includes numerous meetings and appointments to give life to an in-depth investigation, involving citizens, researchers and institutions, on the living conditions in housing and urban spaces, their evolutions and changes.
In Milan, critical issues are linked to the rising cost of living and housing. The meeting Affordable Housing: the urgency of Milan in comparison with Bologna and Barcelona will compare the dynamics of gentrification and possible solutions to lower prices in these three large cities. Pierfrancesco Maran, Councillor for Housing and Neighbourhood Planning, Emily Clancy, Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Housing in Bologna, Massimo Bricocoli, lecturer at the Milan Polytechnic, Silvia Mugnano, associate professor at the Bicocca University, a representative of the Barcelona Housing Department and two representatives of the Comitato Abitare in via Padova will speak about this topic.
Genoa will question its housing stock, which is often inadequate for the needs of its citizens. The round table Social Housing vs New Forms of Shared Housing. The Vienna and Bordeaux Experience will address the issue of housing designed for fragile social groups. Emerging initiatives will be explored, which arise from below to compensate for now inadequate allocation criteria: from cohousing, to cooperativism, to self-construction collectives. Speakers include Mario Mascia, Councillor for Urban Planning of Genoa, Bernard Blanc, former Councillor for Resilient Urban Planning of the city of Bordeaux, Michael Obrist, Director of the Department of Housing at TU WIEN (Technical University of Vienna).
The meeting Institutions and Social Responsibility will instead call on different voices in Bologna to talk about the housing shortage in the city, which penalises large sections of the population. Participants in the meeting will include Deputy Mayor Emily Clancy, Rita Ghedini, President of Lega CoopBologna, Simona Tondelli, Vice-Rector of the University of Bologna, and Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of the Curia of Bologna.
In the meeting The inhabited city and the quality of urban spaces. The case of Mestre, several guests, including Roberto Beraldo, President of OAPPC Venice, Massimiliano De Martin, Councillor for Building, Urban Planning and the Environment of the Municipality of Venice, and Luca Molinari, Scientific Director of M9 – Museo del ‘900, will review emblematic places in Mestre, the result of the urban regeneration of the area.
Architects will be invited to express themselves and look at the theme of the home from challenging perspectives. The workshops Nuovi Paesaggi domestici: Progetti sperimentali di interior design and Ripensare gli spazi della casa in Milano will bring designers, winners of a public call for entries proposed by the Fondazione Housing Sociale, together with Patricia Viel, to discuss the replicability of their models and the new functions of domestic space.
In Bologna, Abitare l’Emergenza: architecture and social responsibility will gather around a table Emilio Caravatti of Studio Caravatti-Caravatti, Simone Sfriso of TAMassociati, Alessandro Floris of 2f architettura.
Opening up new perspectives on the idea of domestic space, arriving at hypotheses of innovative forms of “family” supported by principles of solidarity and mutual aid, will instead be the task of Homes with Care at the Centre in Milan, moderated by the Sex & the City Association, with Giulia Carones of ID22 (Institute for Creative Sustainability in Berlin), Liat Rogel, director of the Impact Housing Foundation, and Cristian Zanelli, vice-president of ABCittà.
The event, organised by the Foundations of the Associations of Architects of Milan, Genoa, Venice and the Order of Architects of Bologna, in collaboration with the University of Genoa, the Social Housing Foundation and the Association AmbienteAcqua APS, has been realised thanks to the awarding of the public notice “Festival Architettura – II edition”, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.
At the following link the complete programme of the Festival Cara Casa.
PHOTO CREDIT
– Genoa, INA Casa Forte Quezzi The Biscione by Carlo Luigi Daneri and Eugenio Fuselli. Ph. credit Jacopo Baccani
– Milan, Gallaratese BP. Ph. credit Barbara Palazzi
– Bologna, ph. credit Petr-Slovacek
– Genoa, INA-Casa district – Villa Bernabò Brea. Ph. credit Jacopo Baccani
