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Feeding Milan
a strategic project for place development
Feeding Milan – Energy for Change, is an action research project developed by Slow Food Italia, the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano and the Università di Scienze Gastronomiche.
The project investigates how design for social innovation can contribute to sustainable place development by creating a local foodshed that serves to connect local food production in peri-urban areas (and in particularly in the huge agricultural park bordering the south of the town, the Agricultural Park South) with its consumers in the city of Milan giving rise to a local food community.
Feeding Milan consists of an open series of projects and processes, such as setting up a farmers’ market in Milano; rebuilding the bread chain on a local basis, reorganizing agricultural and distributional activities to supply zero-km fresh vegetables and many others.
More specifically, Polimi DESIS Lab developed the “Ideas Sharing Stall’: a physical space within the farmers’ market in which to make contact with the potential users of the services to be developed, co-designing, prototyping and testing ideas before their real implementation.
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