Europan 15, The Square, a circular laboratory (Verbania, IT) -
Professional European Competition, 2017The Square is a collective and inclusive environment. It engages different strengths at different scales, from local stakeholders to European development funds. Here in Verbania, the emptiness is understood as a resource for the city, able to support new activities and set up synergies in space and time.
As we are living an era of uncertainty with the awareness of the limitation of resources, we need to increase the proportion of reused and upgraded materials to create new opportunities for technological and design innovations.
Through a mix of programs, the square creates rooms for high productive collaborations between different economies: from storage, reuse and trading to cultural production, social economy, research and development activities.
in collaboration with: Alessandro Benacchio, Felix Drencourt and Lucile Ado.
