The document describes a project in Milan, Italy that offers courses in video, cooking, makeup, and knitting at the unused popular school in the Lope de Vega residential building to improve social cohesion among residents. It provides details on the courses, diagrams the offering and system, and notes the project receives funding from various sources and allows residents to acquire new skills while utilizing existing community resources.

1. Aalto University
L’École de design Nantes Atlantique
Politecnico di Milano
SYSTEM DESIGN Barona hub
FOR SUSTAINABILITY
course
MANUAL ACTIVITIES
Professor Carlo Vezzoli
Design School THE EXISTING OFFER
Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Academic year 2011/2012 Manual Activities
Authors:
Elisa Bacchetti
Alberto Fossati
Claudio Sarcì
Carlo Vezzoli
D I S , D E S I G N A N D S Y S T E M I N N O VAT I O N F O R S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y
Italian Coordinator: Carlo Vezzoli
The TANGO (AH-DEsign) project is funded by the Culture Programme (European Union – Education and Culture DG)

2. 1. The Existing Offer
2. Offering Diagram
3. System Map
4. Qualitative Sustainability Report

3. The Existing Offer
The HUB BARONA EXISTING OFFER is the following:
The Barona district is located in the south suburbs of Milan. It is a popular district with huge
residential buildings. One of these complexes is the Lope de Vega house that is the focus of the
intervention of the Punto e Linea project in the district, to improve the social cohesion between the
residents and to revaluate the place. The intervention proposes four courses with different topics
to involve the inhabitants in creative and useful activities.
Video: the aim of this initiative is to communicate the district (or other topics) through the point of
view of the people living there. Every recording phase is done with the participant’s phones except
for the editing that is realized with the help of a professional and using a common computer;
Cook: the aim of this course is to cook with everything giving people the possibility to save money
and to learn how to cook something unusual;
Makeup: the aim of the course is to learn how to make up in a professional way improving
personal and artistic skills of the participants;
Knitting: the aim of the course is to give some practical help for knitting in order to create a
concrete competence to be spent in everyday life or as a possibility for a future work. All the
courses will be organized inside of the popular school of Lope de Vega that is an available room
inside the building and it is now unused. The idea of using the popular school is to help the people
to open the space and to encourage them in being and taking part. An important aspect of the
interventions is the collaboration with other social initiatives already present in Lope de Vega. This
integration can help to create more solid bases to interact with the inhabitants and to promote a
more complete path of social involvement.

4. Offering Diagram
5 meeting with fixed dates
acquire new skills
-topic introduction
acquire new skills for the
-practical tests
everyday life
-creation of artifacts
-greater indipendence
experimenting -job opportunities
video knitting
propose activities
make up
COMITATO DI QUARTIERE
GESTIONE AUTONOMA
LOPE DE VEGA 1 - 27
SCUOLA POPOLARE
kitchen with
“everything” everyone can feel free
everyone to propose new
ideas
LET’S GO TO CREATIVITY’S SCHOOL

5. System Map
Milano
Milan city hall
1. 2.
collaboration:
utilizzation of the popular school in Lope de Vega proposals of activities
wages
self management Lope
de Vega
4. comparison and promotion
daily aid
social custodians
Asp
enrollment fee
founds tenants of Lope de Vega
5. party and beginning of the curses
Cariplo
foundation
la Cordata equipments for activities materials for the activities
inhabitants of
Corsi Corsari Barona district
wages
Alma Rosè
theater company 3. organization of the courses
Don’t Movie
Art Kitchen Strega Comanda
Color
control room trainers

6. Qualitative Sustainability Report