ZIP Spaces. Fast Tests of New Scenario of Uses through Adaptive Reuse Strategies

The contribute describes proposals of short-term adaptive reuse interventions on dismantled commercial interiors overlooking the street, to increase the impact on urban space and on the population who uses it. These interventions concern aggregate formats of activities that can generate original synergies between the emerging creative experiences, smart and interconnected, and production activities, such as handicrafts and trade (often in decline), that represent the historical local roots. The book presents some reflections on the role of design discipline in a proactive context of reconstruction and re-occupation of urban spaces guided by residents, becoming increasingly frequent. Specific research methodologies and intervention strategies in close relation with the resident population, is the subject of the research done at the Design department in the Politecnico di Milano which aims at generating future scenarios of hybridization of functions, places, activities.