Flatlandia – Studio Binocle

This Fifth Season is a visual manipulation that starts from a shot of Viale Palmanova. The mirrored copy of the photograph activates the imagination and refers to a catastrophic event and the calm that follows. The quoted text is also part of this assemblage: “For this reason, in the days that followed, Zeitoun paddled through the flooded streets in a second-hand canoe, bringing aid and food to people and animals trapped in their homes by the flood.”

Note: Excerpt from the book Zeitoun by Dave Eggers.

Bar Assab – Matilde Cassani Studio

The “fantastic” sign of Bar Assab One, with the colors of Polisportiva Cimiano, is a sign of collective identity, a reference point for the neighborhood, where everything blends and where the future is speculated upon. A season that celebrates the ritual of post-match gatherings, redefining the habits of our everyday landscape and transforming a simple bar into a symbol of belonging and shared memory.

Interno politico (Political interorios) – DFC Studio

Interiors represent the most transformative space of a city. In Cimiano, they move incessantly along a trajectory made of domestic objects, symbols, and anomalies, creating an integrated, politically active, and formally anarchic territory. A season inhabited by communities capable of transforming their expressiveness into an inclusive political reality, through a fragmented, reversible, and continuously renewing project, more significant than the formal repertoires of the architecture that contains them.

2040: sono sceso a Cimiano e ho visto capre, galline e molte api (2040: I Got Off at Cimiano and Saw Goats, Chickens, and Many Bees) – Studio Francesco Faccin

With 2040: I Got Off at Cimiano and Saw Goats, Chickens, and Many Bees, the author imagines a future where city and nature intertwine in a spontaneous yet designed balance, where farm animals and pollinators become the protagonists of a new possible season. A repetition of elements that subverts urban contemporaneity, proposing scenarios where biodiversity and new (animal) communities redefine the public space of the city.

La quinta stagione (The Fifth season) – Formafantasma 

It is a written invitation to imagine a “fifth season,” an era not yet defined, in which people confront cultural and social diversities and build a shared future, far from the traditional imposed development models. Because changing development models means changing project models through new questions and new demands linked to a renewed culture of design.

Guarda più tardi (Watch later) – Fosbury

In this netnographic walk, Cimiano is visually analyzed through Google Street View images and outlined by the unique combination of three words from What3words, a georeferencing system that envisions the Earth’s surface divided into 3x3m cells, making location communication precise and easily memorable. Except for the choice of framing, no image has been digitally manipulated.

Desideri (Desires) – Normalearchitettura°

In this “pulsating season,” different languages narrate the neighborhood space. These include the language of machines translated into binary code as a backdrop, the normative language of urban planning, and the language of desires that identifies places of learning such as schools, woodworking shops, theaters, workshops, sports centers, and places of worship. Can a neighborhood generate desires and translate them into learning?

Il codice della quinta stagione (The code of the Fifth season) – Parasite 2.0

The code of the Fifth season is a taxonomy of elements of our common life, where the relationship between natural and artificial has completely dissolved, and where drawing transforms into an X-ray investigation that surpasses the visible. Like “artifacts from the future,” these objects reveal their deepest essence, where technological and biological information merge, producing a new language.

Memorie industriali (Industrial memories) – Philippe Tabet

Cimiano and Via Palmanova have hosted several industrial realities, including CEM (Electromechanical Constructions Milan), CIBA (pharmaceutical company), Clément (manufacturer of bicycles and tires), and Distilleria Lanfranconi (producer of spirits, flavors, and colorants for the food industry). This past blends with the present through an object-based memory that pertains to the realm of emotions because it includes the most important component: the human element, the people who, through their work, made these companies great.

Assab Five – Vitali Studio

In Japan, the seasons (kisetsu) are not four but five. In the history of art and landscape contemplation, the transitions between seasons represent a fifth season. The kakejiku (hand-painted scrolls) are the highest expression of the five Japanese seasons. Assab Five is a digital painting representing Assab One and the Cimiano neighborhood in a fifth season, that of imagination.