Ecomuseo Urbano Metropolitano Milano Nord: per una biografia culturale del paesaggio collettivo

• Main Authors: Silvia Mascheroni, Alessandra Micoli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Firenze University Press 2015-11-01
• Series: Ri-vista : Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio
• Subjects: urban ecomuseum; metropolitan landscape; cultural biography of places; community narration; participatory mapping
• Online Access: http://www.fupress.net/index.php/ri-vista/article/view/17271

The Ecomuseo Urbano Metropolitano Milano Nord (EUMM) is a new entity, a widespread and participatory museum interpreting the territory and enhancing its tangible and intangible heritage. The described projects highlight the ecomuseum’s ability to test innovative practices and to promote participated actions in order to understand and to reassemble the urban landscape and the ongoing transformations, evident ones and hidden ones, the knowledge, the history and collective memory, by involving citizens in tasks of active protection.