A video interview with Stefano Boeri, on the occasion of Milan Design Week, is aired on La7, in which stories about design and the city of Milan are interwoven during the week of the Salone del Mobile.
Initially touching on themes related to architecture and the city, citing the main reforestation projects in which Stefano Boeri Architetti’s studio is involved, the centerpiece of the interview is the SWING installation, conceived by Stefano Boeri Interiors in the Pharmacy Courtyard of the Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, which presents the Parco Italia project in a corner.
Parco Italia draws inspiration both from the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and from the vision of World Park-a visionary plan for a world park-by landscape architect Richard Weller, capable of connecting all the biodiversity hotspots on the planet. The project is being developed by the research department of Stefano Boeri Architetti (full team in the last photo) and the AlberItalia Foundation, which brings together the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF) and leading forestry and environmental research organizations.
Designed to be part of a broader vision that considers ecosystem services, and climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, Parco Italia is a national urban, peri-urban, and suburban forestry project that aspires to extend, connect, protect, sustainably manage, and increase, improve, and protect the network of natural areas, protected areas, ecological corridors, semi-natural terrestrial ecosystems, and forests throughout Italy. In the future, this network could form a natural connective matrix, linking urban and coastal areas to remote mountain ranges, connecting the Alps and Apennines to the Mediterranean coast.
Parco Italia is an act of care, made possible through the construction of cultural and ecological linkages, each connecting protected and unprotected natural areas and slow mobility routes.