Speakers::
Maria Thereza Alves, artist
Stefano Mancuso, scientist
Luigi De Vecchi, economist
Formafantasma, designer collective
Arturo Galansino, Director-General, Palazzo Strozzi Foundation
Cristiana Perrella, Director of Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci
Mario Cristiani, President of Associazione Arte Continua APS
Moderator:
Valerio Barberis, Town Planning Councillor of the Municipality of Prato
Climate change and increasingly unpredictable and violent weather events are plain to see, but large-scale CO2 reduction operations at the source of industrial production are struggling to take off. A complementary and concrete perspective for mitigating the impact of CO2 is therefore “urban forestry”: a massive and widespread increase in plantings, to mitigate the impact of sun and rain on the land, to capture CO2, and to make even the most industrialised or degraded peripheries socially welcoming. What are the real scientific needs and possibilities for these environmental policies? What are the costs and benefits? How can contemporary art and urban planning make this emergency evident and then encourage the diffusion of this new way of understanding dwelling within the urban context?