11 November 2025
Campus Leonardo Room: B.6.2.
14:15 – 16:15 hours
Moderators
Diego Terna
Politecnico di Milano, Department DASTU
Discussants
The Osmotic Relationship of Public and Event Spaces
Mia Roth-Čerina – University of Zagreb, Department of Architectural Design
Moving Stages in the City: Baroque Theatricalities within the Contemporary Cinematographic Apparatus
Jorge Alberto Santos Croce Rivera – University of Évora, Department of Philosophy
Cinema between the normalizing approach of the public administration and the radical practices of marginalized individuals for a design of the imagined city
Graziano Palamara – Architect, founder Il Cinemino Milano, Technical Director Milano Film Fest
“The square is mine!” shouts the village madman at Palazzo Adriano, when the film’s spectators, projected on the walls of the residential buildings, mock the parish priest who asks for a ticket, claiming that the square belongs to everyone.
It is 1988, Giuseppe Tornatore presents Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, directing the movie’s most magical moment, when projectionist Alfredo manages to duplicate the images of the film projected in the town cinema, so that they are reproduced on the walls of the outside houses.
Suddenly, we understand the value of cinema, its significance as a moment of connection between people, marked by an almost enchanted wonder, capable of becoming urbanity, of giving life to a Place, a space for everyone (“the square belongs to everyone!” spectators replied to the madman).
