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Park of Villa Litta Lainate (Milano-Italy)

At the historic Villa Litta Park in Lainate (MI), GREEN ISLAND will present the book "Bees, Art, Design and Architecture" (Corponove Edizioni), edited by Claudia Zanfi. Reflecting on the wonderful world of pollinators can guide us toward safeguarding our future. A publication dedicated to bees and their special dialogue with art, design, architecture. But above all, it is dedicated to the preservation of biodiversity.

Santa Cecilia Vineyard in Croara, Bologna (Italy)
Special event at the Santa Cecilia Vineyard, inside the beautiful 'Parco dei Gessi' on the hills of Bologna (Italy). GREEN ISLAND is organizing a naturalistic journey among art, botany and biodynamic agriculture. The Vineyard practices environmentally friendly cultivation, with a focus on the history of the land and the local vegetation. It combines a passion for art and design, which creates the occasion for installing new artistic beehives, useful for the pollination of the vineyard.


Santa Cecilia Vineyard in Croara, Bologna (Italy)

20th/27th May 2023

Another highlight is the Saturday 27th conference at the beautiful setting of Tenuta La Pistona Park, in Piacenza, entitled 'Creativity and Social Intelligence’. The conference is dedicated to the wonderful world of bees and their social organization. Among several notable guests, Claudia Zanfi (founder of Green Island/Alveari Urbani) will explore the relationship between bees and art.

20th/27th May 2023

The first event is held at the Gardens of Campus Bovisa, Politenico University of Milan. Saturday 20th of May will be ‘A day for bees’, with botanical workshops on the knowledge of vegetable species useful to pollinators. Bees are crucial in urban centers because they conserve biodiversity. Creating oases with melliferous flowers helps preserve an healthy and vital environment.

20th/27th May 2023

On the occasion of World Bees and Biodiversity Week, our Green Island program is active nationwide with a series of events dedicated to pollinators, to raise people awareness on these special insects to be known and protected. The program includes stories of bees, flowers, community, sharing, art and creativity.

Garibaldi Train Station, Milan (Italy) April 17-23

In addition, a special project of this edition of Green Island is the creation of Talk&Walk, afternoon moments for citizens. Every afternoon at 5:30 p.m. at the Garibaldi Train Station main hall, it is possible to participate to events, talks and performances, on art, beauty and sustainability, curated by Claudia Zanfi.  Followed by guided tours of creative labs around the Isola neighborhood, curated by IULM  University students.

 

 

Attached: Daily Program

Garibaldi Train Station, Milan (Italy) April 17-23

KIOSK is a pop-up, mobile and multi-purpose kiosk-floristry-kitchen around which a series of activities for the public revolve. A place of exchange and meeting for events and readings, new recipes, music for aromatics, olfactory performances. Created by Zurich based designer Antonio Scarponi, the installation will later be utilized by Schools of Art and Design, where it will serve as a sharing project for young people and students.

 

 

KIOSK Project attached

Garibaldi Train Station, Milan (Italy) April 17-23

Art & Nature, are the main topics of the 21° edition of the international program ‘GREEN ISLAND’, during Milano Design Week. A path dedicated to creativity, art, botany, eco-design, at the Isola District area. KIOSK is a visual-sensory experience, an original urban green installation for Garibaldi Train Station, Milan, curated by Claudia Zanfi /Atelier del Paesaggio. 

Opening on Monday, April 17 at 12.00 

 

Partnership with: Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Gruppo FS Italiane; Università IULM; Isola Design District; Antonio Scarponi / Conceptual Devices Zurigo; Algranti Lab; The Botanical Club; Offi Flower Design; Bricheco; Studio Claudio Saviola; Vivaio Coccetti.

Media partner ARTRIBUNE.

Invitation attached

Thursday, 1st December, 6 pm

We are happy to share the project 'Adopt a hen!' by Soulfood Forestfarms collective at the Vettabbia Urban Park. Improving greenery in the city and growing new urban ecologies means to take care of every living being: plants, flowers, bees and chickens. 

WE INVITE associations, schools, companies, foundations, citizens, to follow all the project details and support it at the link: https://www.produzionidalbasso.com/.../adotta-una-gallina/

 

Thursday, 1st December, 6 pm.

Viafarini.Work Space/ Vettabbia Urban Park, Milan 

www.viafarini.org

Saturday, 12 November, 3 pm

A special project by Green Island is the creation of BEES NEST, a series of small hives for solitary bees (osmies), conceived in collaboration with the innovative design studio CARACOL. Totally ecological, the material used, with 3D printing, is derived from the transformation of natural sugars (beets, corn, sugar cane). The first beehives will be installed at the Urban Community Gardens 'COLTIVANDO', Campus Bovisa, Politecnico University Milano. The event will be in collaboration with the campus students and the local community.

 

Saturday, 12 November, 3 pm

Community Gardens - Politecnico University - Campus Bovisa - Milano

www.coltivando.polimi.it/

Invite attached