Mapping San Siro

monimo e proseguendo successivamente grazie al primo coinvolgimento attivo di alcuni partecipanti. L’esperienza si caratterizza all’interno del panorama accademico italiano per la sua natura sperimentale, posizionandosi tra didattica, ricerca e azione locale. Mapping San Siro prova a praticare uno spostamento dalla pratica tradizionale di insegnamento verso nuove forme di didattica e apprendimento basate sulla prossimità territoriale, sull’ascolto, il dialogo, la coproduzione di conoscenza con i soggetti locali e l’interdisciplinarità. A caratterizzare l’esperienza di Mapping San Siro è la presenza di una sede all’interno del quartiere di edilizia residenziale pubblica di San Siro: 30metriquadri prima (dal 2014) e il nuovo spazio Off Campus San Siro poi (dal 2019). Lo spazio è un vero e proprio “distaccamento” dell’Università nel territorio, che consente di spostare il punto di vista all’interno del contesto e ragionare sull’innovazione responsabile della didattica e della ricerca. EN: Supported by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies and by Polisocial Program (Politecnico of Milan public engagement program), Mapping San Siro (MSS) was started in 2013 as a workshop activity, involving the participation of a group of students, researchers and teachers, interested in challenging the negative narratives associated to San Siro neighbourhood, one of the biggest public housing complexes of the city and in producing shared and “usable” representations that could effectively trigger local change. Thanks to the involvement of local actors, the workshop was particularly successful and a group of researchers decided to continue to work in the neighbourhood. In 2014, MSS obtained from Aler – the Regional Agency for Public Housing of the Lombardy Region, which owns and manages the housing stock – the possibility to re-open a vacant shop in the neighbourhood, located on the street level, which became the headquarter of the group and was named “30metriquadri” (30 square metres). In 2019 – thanks to an agreement among Lombardy Region, Aler and Politecnico of Milan – Mapping San Siro became part of the Off Campus project and moved in a bigger space, just around the corner of the previous one. Off Campus San Siro is the first operating Off Campus space. The activities carried out here originate from the cooperation between university, inhabitants and local networks, coordinated by Mapping San Siro, the WRP research group and the Envisioning San Siro educational project. To know more about it: www.mappingsansiro.polimi.it/en