Our founder TOMAS GHISELLINI is on the pages of PLATFORM #47 with a critical essay on the story of resistance narrated by the Woodpecker by architect Filippo Monti in Milano Marittima, Italy.

Luca Molidari says: “William Shakespeare said that the city is its citizens, not just because of a simple sense of formal and political belonging, but because built places exist when they are animated by the lives of its inhabitants and all their living communities, whether human, animal, plant, or mineral.

Traditionally, the idea of a place was linked to that of a defined community with the same language, traditions, and ways of eating and building, yet now we can consider this reactionary and exclusive concept as completely outdated. In the present day, there are numerous diverse communities that are fluid in body and time, all of which intertwine, coexist and even clash in every inhabited place,
imposing on all of us a form of listening and dialogue that is necessary in order to overcome conflicts and grow together.

Whenever a civilization has raised walls related to economy, race, religion or politics, it has progressively died from asphyxiation because its blood has been weakened, and the world has changed in the meantime. Every community that is strong, is so because it is mixed, changeable, open and capable of welcoming the diversities necessary for its evolution. Yet the community is also the place in which to question the future together and imagine new tools for designing and building […]”.

Download PLATFORM 47 digital issue here.

WHEN:
2024, June

WHAT:
Architecture paper and digital magazine

TYPE:
Architecture, Landscape and Interior Design magazine

AUTHORS / CURATORS:
Platform Network srl, Milano