Polisocial

The social engagement and responsibility programme @Politecnico di Milano

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IDEA - Improving damage assessments to enhance cost-benefit analyses

Supporting more effective mitigation measures in the aftermath of a disaster and show how improved data may better inform pre-event risk modeling. It will also address damage data to critical infrastructures and economic activities developing tools which will enable public administrations to manage damage and loss.

IDEA

Francesco Ballio, Scira Menoni - DASTU

January 2015 - December 2016

From detention to relationship: an architecture experiment in the prison of Bollate, Milan

The project examines the connection between spatial form and nature of relationships in the Milano-Bollate prison. Both architecture design students and detainees are involved in the ideation of proposals for reorganizing interior living spaces and identifying places in which prison inmates and the city could meet. The outcome is a design exercise applied to the compound itself, including the construction of a small wooden structure devoted to private visits.

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Project sheet

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Teaching in-the-field

Traces of Liberty: Architecture in the Prison

Andrea Di Franco (DASTU)

2018/2019

Feeding Knowledge is the Expo Milano 2015 strategic program which contributes building up the legacy of the Universal Exposition: ”Feeding the planet. Energy for Life”. Feeding Knowledge, the international network for cooperation in research and innovation on food security, has been developed and managed since 2011 by Politecnico di Milano in partnership with the Centre Hautes Etudes Agronomiques pour la Mediterranée – Institute of Bari for the purpose of sharing and disseminating knowledge.The Programme is grounded on the idea that knowledge development and sharing are the main tools to find concrete solutions for fighting food in¬security.

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Cooperation and development

Feeding Knowledge

Susanna Sancassani - METID [ susanna.sancassani@polimi.it ]

Funds: Expo Milano 2015

2012 - 2015

The Bovisa Campus, tomorrow

#OpenCampus is the space Campus Bovisa as it could be tomorrow! Ideas and projects for the renovation, new services and functions and many activities to make the university a welcoming place, open and used by the neighbourhood. In collaboration with associations and inhabitants of Bovisa-Dergano neighbourhood.

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Teaching in-the-field

Open Campus

Davide Fassi (DESIGN)

A.A. 2015/2016

Social Food Club

Social Food Club is aimed at developing a social food service. It is delivered as a set of practices related to the preparation, distribution and consumption of food, based on shared, collaborative and participatory activities in the milanese Dergano and Bovisa neighbourhoods. The service offering is composed by a social restaurant linked to a food education process – provided by a team of food experts – dedicated to weak communities that can be involved both the back-office and in the restaurant activities. According to a wider framework of social innovation issues, the aim of the project is to set a model (applicable also in other contexts) that combines a specific business idea (social enterprise), the involvement of particular weakest communities previously individuated (NEET, multiethnic communities, adults need to re-entry into Labour, etc) and provides an opportunity for growth to the people involved through vocational training courses.

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Social food club

Stefano Maffei - DESIGN

October 2013 - October 2014

Responsible Fashion Design. Ideas and projects for a new understanding of fashion design

The teaching proposal promotes a new understanding of fashion design, concerning with its social role. Students have developed different activities: in collaboration with CONAU, reusing of second-hand items for social purpose by focusing the creative process on social issues and sustainability. The second year, in collaboration with ASPEm Italia, they created outfits with high quality design by using a traditional Peruvian spun, sharing skills and knowledge with Peruvian women. In the third year the teaching activity was focused on the relationship between fashion design and the elderly, investigating how fashion design can respond to needs and daily actions of old people.

Teaching in-the-field

Responsible Fashion Design

Giovanni Maria Conti - DESIGN

A.Y. 2012/2013- 2013/2014 - 2014/2015 - 2015/2016

Empty spaces. Projects for the reuse and reinterpretation of dwellings and vacant spaces in the public housing estate

The requirement made by the Municipality of Milan was to open a debate on the re-design of small dwellings and empty spaces located in the housing estate, property of the Municipality of Milan. In agreement with the City Council, it has been identified dwellings and empty spaces situated in different districts of the city which could be the objects of interior design elaborations and proposals. Students have developed interior design solutions at the scale of furniture and they have imagined new features and equipment for these small spaces with the aim of suggesting concrete ideas for the reuse of these spaces.

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Teaching in-the-field

Empty spaces

Luciano Crespi, Barbara di Prete, Sonia Calzoni - DESIGN

A.Y. 2013/2014, 2014/2015

Old Cinemas. Ideas for the urban regeneration of old cinemas to promote their architectural and cultural heritage

The project focuses on the need to reflect on the architectural and functional recovery of abandoned cinemas located in the Italian cities. Starting from the identification of no longer used cinemas, students have designed strategies of regeneration and reuse of these spaces. In collaboration with OldCinema

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Teaching in-the-field

OldCinema

Giuliana Costa, Paolo Cottino - DASTU

A.Y. 2014/2015

Spaces of Cohesion. Ideas and projects for the realization of a system of public spaces dedicated to local Associations

The activities developed by students in collaboration with teachers were focused on a building of a school located in Via Miramare, destined to become the Community Centre for the 2nd District of Milan. The design work aims to identify all the local resources useful to the development of the project; the second step was to redesign the interior spaces in order to make them suitable to host different uses and initiatives, taking into account the requirements of local associations. In collaboration with Municitpality of Milan – Department of Security and Social Cohesion

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Teaching in-the-field

Spaces of Cohesion

Paola Vidulli, Alberto Campolunghi, Maria Beatrice Servi - DESIGN

A.Y. 2012/2013

Noble projects. Noble initiatives to support communities

Students worked in groups, for the realization of a “noble” idea in support of the community. Working with different voluntary associations and their users, the students analyzed the weaknesses and strengths of the services or activities that the association provides, and they work to improve the functioning of a specific activity or to the functioning of the association in general.

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Teaching in-the-field

Noble projects

Stefano Cirella - DIG

A.Y. 2012 - 2013

Cross-cultural design attitude. Design solutions for refugees assistance centers

The teaching proposal has to do with the design of spaces for the temporary welcoming residences for political refugees in the city of Milan. The purpose was to generate ideas, with the proper tools of design, for the design of spaces that can adequately answer to the many vocations in the emergency temporary dwelling. Students proposed six-teen projects for ameliorate the living spaces of political refugees and this ideas and elaborations were presented to the partner of the project and to the municipality of Milan. In collaboratio with Farsi Prossimo Social Cooperative

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Teaching in-the-field

Cross-cultural design attitude

Agnese Rebaglio, Elena Giunta, Davide Fassi, Barbara Camocini - Design

A. Y. 2012/2013