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The Project

NABA, in collaboration with OpenDot, the Fab Lab, research and open innovation hub, presented Future Fields - Urban farming for the Milan of Tomorrow, the online hackathon born to re-think the future of urban agriculture through speculative design, the method that aims at raising real questions onto the new directions we will take in the times to come. This initiative is part of the European project OpenAgri, of which the Municipality of Milan and the Chamber of Commerce of Milan MonzaBrianza Lodi are in charge.

Future Fields involved 35 students from NABA’s six didactic Areas, working in teams to create projects that imagine plausible scenarios and urban agriculture systems for the Milan of 2025. The ideas, between design and fiction, have been collected in a report from the future, to stimulate the conversation and the reflections on their consequences in social, cultural, economic and technological fields.

Guido Tattoni, NABA Dean, Luca Poncellini, NABA Design and Applied Arts Department Head and Claudio Larcher, NABA Design Area Leader, took part to the workshop as mentors along with urban agriculture experts such as Felipe Hernandez (Hexagro), Henry Gordon-Smith (Agritecture), Alessandro Arioli and Patrizia Guglielmotto (Aquaponix), and Andrea Patrucco (Municipality of Milan).

The project, introduced by a schedule of contents and activities, developed in a whole week of digital work, with the support of mentors and OpenDot’s tutors, to be completed by the live streaming presentation of the projects, awarding the best proposals by NABA students, on OpenAgri’s and OpenDot’s social media.

Area: Communication and Graphic Design, Media Design and New Technologies, Design
Campus: NABA Milan
Collaboration: OpenDot

Project Leaders

Guido Tattoni
NABA Dean
NABA Dean
Guido Tattoni
<p>Sound Engineer and Sound Designer, he earned his BA in Recording Arts and his MA in Creative Media Practice at Middlesex University (London), and, later on, he also graduated in Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include generative compositional techniques, contemporary music, artificial intelligence, interaction design, sound and audio technology, which he investigates through his ongoing PhD Studies, based at the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) centre of London College of Communication at University of the Arts London. From 2003 to 2015, he worked in a variety of academic positions in the field of Sound at SAE Institute, that he has also directed. At NABA he has been the Design and Applied Arts Department Head&nbsp; (2015-2019) also teaching Sound Design. NABA Dean since 2019, he guides educational activities of the Academy.</p>
Luca Poncellini
Design and Applied Arts Department Head
Design and Applied Arts Department Head
Luca Poncellini
<p>Luca Poncellini is an architect and a designer with a PhD in the History of Architecture and City Planning. As a partner in the architecture office Cliostraat until 2009, he has curated projects and has lectured in Italy and in several countries throughout the world. His works&nbsp; have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at the Van Alen Institute in New York, at ETH in Z&uuml;rich, at MAGA in Gallarate and at Triennale Milano. In 2008 he co-curated the retrospective exhibition Laszlo Hudec, in collaboration with the Hungarian Consulate in Shanghai. Since 2013 he has been the Course Leader of the MA in Interior Design. Between 2015 and 2019 directed the research lab and the project C-Park. Since 2019 he has been Design and Applied Arts Department Head.</p>
Claudio Larcher
Bachelor of Arts in Design Course Leader
Bachelor of Arts in Design Course Leader
Claudio Larcher
<p>Born in Milan, he graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. After a research period in Spain, in Madrid and Barcelona, in 2002 he founded his own studio, Modoloco Design Workshop, a space for experimentation and research, where diverse cultures and experiences are implemented as architectural and design forms. He has taught at the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bozen, at Politecnico di Milano, and lectured in Italian and international institutions. He curated and participated in several exhibitions in Italy, Japan, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Sweden. Ambassador of Italian Design for Switzerland, Albany and Uruguay in 2017, 2018, 2019, he is the author of the books Globetrotting designers (Compositori), Design, scuola e solidariet&agrave; (Fausto Lupetti), Design from the Alps (Scheidegger Und Spiess), and Disegnare un cucchiaio per cambiare la citt&agrave; (Quodlibet).</p>
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Students involved

Giacomo Dubini, Matteo Agostoni, Magda Cicchitti, Franesca Freda, Carlo Vanzini, Ilaria Radaelli, Alessandra Stellato, Elena Ferrando, Miriana Leuci, Elena Zecchin, Domiziana Doronzo, Francesca Lanciotti, Marina Benetti, Matteo Casiraghi, Denise Verde, Andreea Popescu, Elena Cusini, Ilaria Sacchi, Letizia Bultrini, Leonardo Bosatra, Elena Carlascio, Mattia Tovagliaro, Tommaso Cogliati, Alessia Pala, Claudio Cirielli, Alice Visentini, Matteo Solazzi, Beatrice Gallazzi, Inka Mantovani, Gianluca Guzzi

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