Re-cycling the industrial heritage: the experimental agenda of Bologna
In the shrinking city (Oswald, 2005) a new nostalgia is born: that for the archeology of the industrial artifact, yesterday domineering and inaccessible, today naïve and primitive, inserted in an urban landscape of which it could have a decisive role. The blossom of different spontaneous and cultural actions aimed at urban recycle seems to be today the presupposition of an advancement in design culture, giving multiple answers to the crisis of the large systems (Ciorra, 2011) and opening up a new frontier of discourse on the city.