
17.04.2012 / Food & Leisure
A place in Milan
While Salone del Mobile almost doubles the number of people in town, there’s a corner of Milan where an “alternative salone” is taking place. It’s called Public Design Festival and it’s all about creating projects for the community.
For three years, the Festiva has been hosting international designers who developed their projects focusing on the hidden corners of the city – streets, squares, overpasses and other empty urban spaces – to experience and re-design them. On its fourth edition, the event is facing a brand new challenge: making a private space public.
It is not by chance, then, that the Festival’s headquarters has been installed at Cascina Cuccagna, an Eighteenth century farmhouse that was engulfed by the city and later restored by a group on 10 Milanese associations (including esterni, the event’s promoter).
What is taking place inside the Cascina, at the newly-born trattoria Un posto a Milano (“A place in Milan”) is an authentic experiment whose aim is to bring the rhythm and the relationships of rural life to the city, turning nature and conviviality into new opportunities for acquaintance, sociality and culture.
Breakfasts, snacks, lunches, dinners and picnics: there’s always something to nibble at Un posto a Milano, even when the kitchen is closed.
Yet, there’s more to it than just the will to create a meeting place devoted to food and farming culture. More significantly, Un posto a Milano is establishing a repeatable model, a standard that might be exported to every urban environment.
Un posto a Milano, Cascina Cuccagna, via Cuccagna 2/4 at via Muratori
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Links
http://www.unpostoamilano.it/index.php
http://www.publicdesignfestival.org/portal/IT/contents/generic_home.php




