04.05.2012

Reforestation for Urban Resilience

Reforestation for Urban Resilience

Andrea Bortolotti (collaborator LATITUDE) has presented at the conference Terra Ri-genera Città the project Reforestation for Urban Resilience designed with LATITUDE, Efrem Ferrari and Claudia Ivone Martinez Feria. It is conceived as a design toolkit to regenerate urban areas thanks to new integrated reforestation devices. Both public spaces and unbuilt private areas can be temporarily forested to support the urban tissue providing a number of services (i.e. playgrounds-rainwater retention areas). The process of urban regeneration implies the negotiation between the private and the public sector: designers can guide the stakeholders in the search of win-win strategies towards common benefits. At the moment a pilot project along the stream Olona, in an urbanized area North-West of Milan, is under discussion with the municipality.