CITY AS A COMMON GOOD

Revitalizing the territorial organism by the distribution of wealth.

The territory of Biella is mainly characterized by its rapid aging and its physical segregation. Our approach aims to attract young people into the territory to start creating a new life there, with a better distributed income.

To achieve this, we aim to redefine the spatial proximity, turning it into a functional and social mix with better accessibility to the outer areas. With an extensive public transport net composed of eco-mobility, in combination with the activation of unused areas and creation of a net of common goods available for all, we want to diminish spatial injustice and social inequality.

Exhibited in 19.06.2021 Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto “Climate Urbanism. Biella 2050” curated by Michele Cerruti But, Daniela Ciaffi, Andrea Alessio, Emanuela Saporito, Leonardo Narvaez Martin, Melis Ozalp

For developing the different proposals we used the method of “crossings”, in which we imagine the journey of a person through a pedestrian perspective, starting in Biella, passing through Candelo and finishing in Piatto. With this method we became aware of the activities that are nowa-days in the territory and the areas that lack or have a concentration of these. For the Piatto site, hopping into the mountains, this crossing approaches the transition from the valley to the Alps with an increase in accessibility and opportunities for leisure and production. Different concentrations also appear, to attract the users for rediscovering the suburban-rural landscape of Biella.

We can see these nodes in an agro context, a historical cultural and an intermodal mobility one. All these connections will turn into a seamless net of common goods.

Our main aim is to continue to improve the mobility alternatives and the creation of dispersed nodes with tertiary activities that, in this case, will strengthen the natural and historical landscape, attracting people for productive and leisure reasons.

With new private-public associations, these type of scenarios appear, enhancing the natural and rural landscape while generating income for the locals and economical movement from the visitors. All the above inside the frame of sustainability.