ORIGINAL: StefanoBoeri
BIOMILANO: A new book by Stefano Boeri, which brings together ideas, reflections and projects arisen from the collaboration between a number of planners, designers, artists, researchers, students and others.
Milan, like every city in the world, today, is at a crossroads. It can continue growing by eating up agricultural land, woods, natural space, and thus reducing biodiversity and the space available to other species. Or it can choose to become a bio-diverse metropolis, starting with a new agreement between the city, the natural world and agriculture.
Biomilano is a glossary, a mosaic, which includes fragments from various disciplines and methodologies and practices which are mixed and variable. These range from ideas and projects linked to
- biology,
- architects,
- agronomists,
- politicians and
- ordinary citizens.
These entries are accompanied by highly-detailed illustrations which, alongside the text, create a 'verbal-visual' dictionary that sits at the border between utopia and reality. Seen together, these entries form a complex scenario, which is self-indulgent and often ironic, and which is re-assembled and put into visual context in the second part of the volume.
Only as we move away from the image of the Biomilano-city do things really come into focus, until the whole takes on the form of a place which, in many ways, is already amongst us.
Biomilano illustrates six projects
- Global kitchen Gardens for Milan Expo 2015
- Metrowood
- Verical Forest
- Wood House
- Farms
- Urban Ruralities
outlining the economic and territorial energies which are needed in order to arrive at a new balance between the urban sphere, rural areas (cultivated forms of nature) and the natural world .
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Published by Corraini Edizioni
Edited by Michele Brunello and Sara Pellegrini
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