Saturday 30 of night at the library Flexi ( http://www.libreriaflexi.it/ ) has played an interesting meeting for the presentation of the book "The Gardens of Manhattan" by Michela Pasquali attended the group "4cantoni" (http : / / www.4cantoni.com/ ), supporters of my project, and "The House of Food" ( http://www.casadelcibo.org/ ). personally invited to the event I attended and I came out with a new depth and wealth of information ... This meeting helped to confirm that my project makes sense, there is a real need and attention to the issue of re-appropriation of urban voids left abandoned and forgotten by all ... There were positive reviews in favor of projects of such groups as "negative" even though some constructive discussion on the issue of "wild" and "planned" ...
Of all the interventions I was impressed by the questions, including the Easter (landscape architect) are positively impressed by the clarity of the arguments ...
Speech by Michel EASTER
"the architect is for those who can afford it" ...
He explained the situation in Manhattan of the first places occupied by the so-called "housing" of immigrants in America in the early '68 that up to 900 sites had been cordoned off for risk of collapse of the buildings themselves and then were taken in hand by local people, citizens of the neighborhood who felt the need of re-appropriating. These include the artist Liz Christy and her friends of the Green Guerrillas. They decided to take care of land abandoned in 1973 in New York.Ci took years because networks were removed with beds, refrigerators, car wrecks, but then came the plants ... The name of guerrilla comes from the fact that they began to throw seeds of plants with plastic bags for bombs that were dropped to form a real wood ... The thing that struck me is just the natural way in which these acts are carried out ... not pruned and the paths are never straight, everything is left to SPONTANEITY ' !
"Today you need to feel close to a site, these sites are different from each other, expressing desire to set up a garden but in a different way, despite some common characteristics: they have a project original gardens are insecure, they can be born and disappear in a few, short months, are made with recycled materials, economic, plants are mixed and learn to live well together by networks are walled gardens, all buildings or people from the neighborhood have the keys , is a private garden and the public at the same time that anyone can take care of. the gate is not only a fence, but also to signal its presence and to expose the activities if not hours paertura to the public. In their irregular shape are , go against the rigid grid of the city that ranks the surrounding streets with numbers and letters. Follow a Design Volunteer. INTERVENTION OF 4CANTONI
are landscapes TRANSIENT those who make them. We have exposed a number of projects undertaken by them. All with common interpretations: they are the result of a reading, laboratory of ideas, RESULT IN UNPREDICTABLE.
sapendoli not identify the mediator of the intervention as an association or group of guerrilla gardening simply defined them as creators of a "Architecture Performances."
2007, Certosa Padula . He was commissioned a project for a competition of ideas Ortus Artis reset on a small green area. They propose to allow visitors to design the space ... provide only a distributor of semi e. .. the visitor is invited to make a trip to the four corners of the world, choosing which and how many seeds collect seeds from the 5 continents. The beds of the garden are four bands of virgin land, that no man's land between the walls of the cell can be sown by the visitor.
Each sowing what he wants and eventually plant a win over the other, what will come out no one knows, will be something playful and unpredictable. What emerges is not expected to partecpazione rectory, is instinctive, who passes on the street is "kidnapped" Adagio. Operations are "almost" a zero budget. Link to communication, participation and RICICLO_RIUSO .
Salerno_coltivAzione direct
farmers and a 'vegetable garden collective' achieved through a participatory process with children aged between 5 and 13 years: an environmental education program aimed understanding of the role that can assume the conservation of biodiversity in agriculture and natural resources, and sharing of the concepts of social harmony. So how different 'cultures' coexist natural ecosystem, the different' cultures' can and must coexist in 'social ecosystem. In this paper had to work on the pavement. This demonstrates that any space you can recover it.
Other projects are presented GRA muovigiardino, "the muovigiardino 'is a real garden modular furniture, whether carried on trolleys or supports anchored to bicycles, and is the backbone of temporary installations that accompany Green 4cantoni raids around the city; scARTdiscount 4carrelli spending would pick up in the waste of a week of four members of the group produced in a week. The purpose was explained as "interest in creating interest" ... Dario Aureli told us that one day out of his study has found that the grass clippings building had dropped, so he had "raccimulato" and used them for installation.
Salarium pigneto NIGHT @ WHITE 
Several other interventions have been carried out by the group ... 
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