Glatt! Manifesto for a City in Progress

In order to feed the debate, i2a desires to share experiences currently taking place elsewhere, however relevant also for our territory, addressing them to the widest public, from professionals to citizens: this is what stands behind the first exhibition i2a brings to Lugano "glatt! manifesto for a city in progress" exhibition Krokodil group. It is common opinion how it is necessary to stop the destruction of the countryside, one of the most valuable resource of Switzerland. The logical approach to stop with the urban pressure and to protect the countryside is often neglected. Then, here you are the solution: the city itself! Cities allow managing the surrounding countryside: it is necessary that everyone has the desire and supports the city because the countryside could have some real chance. Swiss architects quite agree on that point. How to convince the rest of the society? i2a istituto internazionale di architettura, Lugano brings to Ticino the exhibition started as a focus on a Krokodil collective’s project. An exhibition that indicates a path on how our decisions related to the urban field needs to be oriented, connected with the real knowledge of the costs they imply.