O.C. International Summer School Politecnico di Milano

In conjunction with Expo 2015, OC-OPEN CITY decided to face the challenges of the Milan event by offering a strong focus on the themes of landscape and agriculture, summarized in the title Feeding (the) Landscape - A new Green-Active Museum for Agriculture. In this perspective, he brought two important events in Milan: the first was the construction of a pavilion on the EXPO site, to testify the importance of the Piacenza land and the landscape, of which architecture, through the metaphor of the 'plate', is a paradigm; the second refers to the event realized within the Pirelli Space, an important moment not only for the International Summer School, but also for the disciplinary area of ​​the Milan Polytechnic. In fact, this event had a double meaning: - on the one hand it was a particularly fruitful confrontation in which the scientific and educational initiative of the Politecnico di Milano, now in its sixth edition, was included in whatwas the most innovative cultural event relief in the architectural field, in 2015; - on the other hand, through the succession of contributions, we have been able to tackle from a different point of view a very topical issue, such as the impacts that the food cycle (production, distribution, consumption) has on the physical and spatial aspects of our territories, thus becoming factors of landscape transformation. The cultural background has involved three different types of -scape: Food-Scape, which aims to integrate the physical expression of the three pillars of the food cycle: production (in urban gardens and agricultural parks), distribution (through markets, also capable of moving through mobile devices) and consumption (in new generation restaurants); Expo-Scape, which aims at reinterpreting the title of Expo Feeding the Planet through a point of view more oriented towards the disciplines of space, typical of architectural and urban planning; Land-Scape, which instead observes the landscape at different scales of interaction and with different hierarchies, through a new point of view that reads the soil as an active and precious resource, capable of modifying the productive system and reactivating entire urban areas, today abandoned or un-used.