The Nature of Collective Spaces in the Post-Digital Era

What if green infrastructure became a driving force for urban regeneration?

The exhibition explores Frankfurt and Milan as two European laboratories for rethinking the relationship between nature, public space and collective life. Shaped by economic dynamism, layered histories and distinctive cultural identities, both cities offer opportunities to investigate how landscape can reconnect fragmented places and support new forms of urban inhabitation.

The River Main, Milan’s Darsena and the Navigli anchor a shared exploration of green infrastructure as a civic attractor: a continuous, adaptive network that connects ecological processes with everyday urban experiences. Through depaving, soil regeneration, water-sensitive design, biodiversity corridors and targeted nature-based interventions, the projects reimagine streets, squares, courtyards and waterfronts as living public spaces. Working with the existing urban fabric and its memory, the proposals explore how nature can provide shade, improve thermal comfort, manage rainwater and support biodiversity, while encouraging encounter, strengthening belonging and renewing the identity of places undergoing change.

Temporary interventions and long-term strategies reveal how these transformations can unfold progressively, responding to local needs. Through drawings, models, mappings and speculative scenarios, the exhibition presents a vision of collective spaces that are open, resilient and continually evolving. Landscape architecture emerges as a practice connecting ecology and culture, urban heritage and future possibilities, infrastructure and everyday life.

Open until November 30, 2026

Speakers: Andreas Otto Kipar and Valentina Galiulo

Responsabile: Andreas Otto Kipar

Contatti: andreasotto.kipar@polimi.it