PUBLICATIONS

Selected Publications

Milano Atlante di genere / Milan Gender Atlas, 2021

Milan Gender Atlas is part of the broader research Sex & the City, commissioned by Milano Urban Center and curated by Florencia Andreola and Azzurra Muzzonigro. The project is triggered by the need to explore a field of investigation that intertwines urban studies and gender studies. This work aims to deconstruct Milan’s contemporary urban space through specific lenses of observation that allow us to read the responses the city is able to offer to the needs of women and gender minorities. The result is a theoretical and practical tool for planning environments that are more inclusive and attentive to the needs of the mul­tiple subjects and the different bodies that inhabit urban space.

Costruire Futuri, 2018.

A look at the contemporary and beyond. Two approaches: Leonardo Caffo, philosopher, and Azzurra Muzzonigro, architect, reflect on the society of the future to be imagined with projects in the present. Three hot topics to which politics do not offer answers: the great migrations, the liveability in the metropolis and the role of the imagination as an engine of change. The humanity of the 21st century can only prepare for an epochal biological and cultural transformation: a new species of Homo sapiens will live in the age of lack of resources, overpopulation and crumbling of traditional lifestyles. A scenario that arouses fear and closure but that also represents a unique opportunity to build a revolution in every area of ​​our existence. The authors choose three masters, Stefano Boeri, Amos Gitai and Adrian Paci, as a source of inspiration to propose a manifesto that does not focus so much on the ghosts that roam in our lives as on concrete proposals to create a collective intelligence and plural involvement in the society of tomorrow.

Un Bosco Verticale/A Vertical Forest, 2015.

In this book Stefano Boeri tells the project of what has become, even before being completed, one of the most emblematic buildings in Milan. The forefather of a new generation of architecture that does not use green as an ornament, but “is thought to be inhabited by trees and birds, as well as by humans”. Urban architectures that foster the biodiversity of living species, transform large quantities of C02 into oxygen and absorb the fine dust that poisons the air of our cities. The Vertical Forest is the first step of a planetary revolution in urban forestry.

Dwell the Threshold: spaces and practices for a plural city, 2015 (PhD thesis).

How is it possible to build welcoming, inclusive and plural cities? Where to start and with which critical and practical tools is it possible to trigger transformation processes in this sense?
To answer these questions, Dwell the Threshold focuses on finding the spaces and practices in which it is possible to reconfigure the sometimes conflicting relationship between the “simultaneous trajectories” (Massey) that inhabit the current urban archipelago (Cacciari). Thus, on the one hand, the spaces of threshold emerge, like those liminal, undecided, ambiguous, unstable, hybrid soils, in which it is possible to rethink the relationship between the parts and, on the other, the practice of dwelling as the opportunity to create a connection through the gaze, the body and space, with otherness. The work stems from the belief that the relationship with the Other should be sought in that distance that separates distinct entities and whose measure is determined by a complex stratification of social, economic, cultural, political conditions that make the limit a frontier space.

Link to: Dwell the Threshold, video animation on Vimeo.

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Full List of Publications

2021

Andreola, F., Muzzonigro, A., 2021, Milano Atlante di genere / Milan Gender Atlas, LetteraVentidue Edizioni, Siracusa.

Andreola, F., Muzzonigro, A., 2021, “Sex & the City. Fra autodeterminazione di genere e governo della città” in Tracce urbane. Rivista italiana transdisciplinare di studi urbani. 5, 9 (lug. 2021). DOI:https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562/17369.

2020

Muzzonigro, A., 2020, “Piazze Aperte qui e ora: come l’urbanistica tattica sta trasformando l’uso dello spazio pubblico” in Arketipo n. 143, Dicembre 2020

Nastro, S., 2020, “Ripensare il nostro modo di vivere. In una Capanna nel bosco. Intervista ad Azzurra Muzzonigro“, in Artribune, 26 Agosto

Muzzonigro, A., 2020, “Un viaggio attraverso le Nuove Istituzioni Culturali
milanesi: spazio, governance e sostenibilità”. In: (a cura di): Roberto Albano, Alfredo Mela, Emanuela Saporito, La città Agìta. Nuovi spazi sociali tra cultura e condivisione. p. 120-130, MILANO: FrancoAngeli, ISBN: 9788891788191

Muzzonigro, A., 2020, “Chi conosce gli Yanomami? Una grande mostra a Parigi fa scoprire il popolo amazzonico” in Artribune, 7 febbraio

2019
Boeri, S., Muzzonigro, A., 2019, Orizzontalità/Verticalità. Un dialogo fra Azzurra Muzzonigro e Stefano Boeri in TECHNE 17/2019 ISSN: 2239-0243, Firenze University Press 

2018
Caffo, L., Muzzonigro, A., 2018, Costruire Futuri, migrazioni, città, immaginazioni, Bompiani Editore, ISBN 9788845295782. 

2017
Muzzonigro, A., 2017, Viaggio attraverso le Nuove Istituzioni Culturali published on CheFare.com on December 13th 2017.

Muzzonigro, A., 2017, Terrore, libertà, convivenza: note a proposito di New Jersey e spazio pubblico, published on GliStatiGenerali.com on August 31st 2017.

Muzzonigro, A., 2017, Abitare la Soglia 2.0: Le sfide della biodiversita’ urbana fra animalità, contaminazione, indecisione in Compresenze,  Roma Tre Press, Roma, pp. 24-27. ISBN: 978-88-94885-49-1.

2016:
Muzzonigro, A., 2016, Milano Animal City, Manifesto per una città non-antropocentrica, published on Abitare.it on April 9th 2016

Caffo, L., Muzzonigro, A., 2016, Abitare la Soglia: verso una città Post-Umana, in A. Falotico, Abitare Insieme: dimensione condivisa del progetto del futuro, Clean, Napoli 2016, pp. 165 – 176 Vol. 15, 2/2015 BDC, print ISSN 1121-2918, electronic ISSN 2284-4732.

2015:
Muzzonigro, A., Musante, G., (a cura di), 2015, Un Bosco Verticale di Boeri S., Edizioni Corraini, Mantova

2013:
Muzzonigro, A., Boano, C., 2013, Dwell the Threshold: Encountering Otherness in Planum. The Journal of Urbanism, vol.2/2013 ISSN 1723-0993

Careri, F., Muzzonigro, A., Goni Mazzitelli, A., Broccia, F., 2013, Metropoliz. Roma communities outside camps: new geographies of threshold spaces in Rome in Planum. The Journal of Urbanism, n27, vol 2/2013 ISSN 1723-0993

2012:
Careri, F., Muzzonigro, A., 2012, Roma. Los imigrantes, los sin techo y el derecho a la ciudad, in Spam_Arq n° 7 – Santiago de Chile, pp. 34-41. ISSN 0718-2961

Careri, F., Muzzonigro, A., 2012, Roma. I migranti, i senza tetto e il diritto alla città, in Marzia Ravazzini e Benedetto Saraceno (a cura di) Le sfide della felicità urbana, Annuario del Saggiatore ISBN 9788842818717

Careri, F., Muzzonigro, A., 2012, Roma. I migranti, i senza tetto e il diritto alla città, in “Souq Quaderni” n° 6-2012.

Talocci, G., Muzzonigro, A., 2012, “Chi perde tempo guadagna spazio” ovvero Spazi e Tempi di Reciprocittà tra São Paulo, Salvador de Bahia, Nicosia in Lo Squaderno n.26, ed. ProfessionalDreamers.

Muzzonigro, A., 2012, Savorengo Ker, il sogno di un futuro diverso per i rom published on Comune-Info.net on October 2012.

2011:
Muzzonigro, A., 2011, Savorengo Ker in Urbanistica Informazioni, n.238, INU Edizioni, Roma.

2010:
Muzzonigro, A., 2010, Casilino 900: Tracce nel Vuoto, in Mapeo, six-monthly publication of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Muzzonigro, A., 2010 Savorengo Ker/La casa di Tutti: l’autocostruzione di un sogno, in 3dnews, weekly insert of the newspaper Terra.

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