Territori fragili significa persone fragili? Un progetto di riqualificazione urbana “bottom up” socialmente sensibile Fragile Territories mean Fragile People? A Social Responsive and Bottom up Urban Renovation Project

Due to a series of factors, needs and unexpected but predictable results such as, e.g., the aging of tenants compared to a too slow generational change, the public housing stock of Milan today has a high concentration of people with self-evident fragility of various types: from social to physical and mental illness, passing through the progressive non-self-sufciency of the elderly (FareMilano/MM, 2017). However, public houses that can aford a dignifed and independent life to these people are still few, absolutely not sufcient to meet the demand (Nomisma, 2017) and within a building heritage that is difcult to transform and where the redevelopment for regulatory compliance and the overcoming of architectural barriers are complicated due to economic, logistic and social problems (Cognetti, 2018). Te paper, proposed in the Medium thematic session, presents a summary of issues related to the Inclusive Living in the research work, commissioned by the Municipality of Milan, for the bottom up renewal of a small public housing neighborhood “Progetto Barzoni Casette. Bottom up feasibility study for a neighborhood’s redevelopment and the increasing of the dwellings”. Te research work, through activities of listening to the inhabitants, analysis of the data collected thanks to an in-depth questionnaire addressed to individual tenants and a continuous discussion with the community established in the district, detected an emerging and widespread fragility, kept under control only thanks to a system of mutual relations that ofen, in a redevelopment project, during its construction and work site, can easily go into crisis. Tis work tried to design a participated and shared project path that was consciously Social Responsive and (almost) unknowingly about the Inclusive Design.