Limited Edition

A blend of museum exhibition, “urban tour” and theatre, the proposal by Davide Carnevali invites spectators to a site-specific experience that explores the limit between the countryside and the city, between nature and culture, and between reality and fiction. A journey that begins among maps, renders and models, and that ends in the midst of farmhouses, meadows and urban spaces, creating an experience dedicated to the transformation of the Milan suburbs.

The second proposal as part of the UNLOCK THE CITY! project, Limited Edition by Davide Carnevali brings together theatre and museum; a site-specific experience in which spectators explore the landscape and the spaces of the South-East area of the city, between Nosedo, Porto di Mare and Corvetto, in a tour that takes the form of a play.

Drawing on the collaboration of the department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano, Limited Edition reflects on the profound urban and architectural transformations affecting the suburbs of Milan, first and foremost the integration of green areas in urban centres. It also examines the essence of places, life within the districts, and our idea of the city of the future. An exploration of the boundaries between the countryside and the city, between nature and culture, and between reality and fiction.

An exhibition space set up again in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano will be open to the public for a few days, presenting maps, renders and models: urban and architectural plans for a suburban area undergoing radical change. Studying formats which have already been applied in other cities, and elaborating specific proposals for Milan, the exhibition examines the possibility of replicating urban development models and the specific nature of each territory, seeking to understand how the demands of a large urban centre and the identity of its districts can be allowed to communicate.

Limited Edition is a format created for the city of Milan, but applicable to any community in which humans and nature are seeking models for sustainable cohabitation.

CREDITS

Created, written and directed by Davide Carnevali
Direction assistant Virginia Landi
With Daniele Cavone Felicioni, Giulia Trivero, Beatrice Verzotti
And the students of the Politecnico di Milano: Federica Bernardi, Marco Mastromarino, Beatrice Nacci, Claudia Noseda, Martina Orio, Rachele Pesenti, Valentina Prada, Ilie Stetcu, Arianna Tardugno, Denisa Andreea Timis, Marco Vanotti
Exhibition of the work created by the students of the Laboratory "Communication between the various stages of planning" of the A.Y. 2023-2024, Master’s Degree in Architecture and Urban Design, the School of Urban Architecture and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Professor Francesco Infussi, Professor Stefano Guidarini, Professor Marialessandra Secchi, the Architect Corinna Patetta, the Architect Amedeo Noris, the Architect Riccardo Turatti
Production Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa
In collaboration with Off Campus Cascina Nosedo, Politecnico di Milano
With thanks to the Direzione Rigenerazione Urbana for granting access to the areas in Via Sile, and to the Area Spettacolo of the Municipality of Milan and Italia Nostra – Urban Forestation Centre and C.I.Q. – District International Centre
With the patronage of Comune di Milano

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