Mappa della Comunità

After a working year, on 27th december the Community Map of Parabiago, one of the first in Lombardy, has been realized.

The parish map is a part of the project "Ecomuseo del paesaggio", funded by the European Union and by the Lombardy region and promoted by the aldermen to envioronmental policies, Town Planning and Education. this is an instrument that has been very useful to share the city material and immaterial heritagen and to create identity, a sort of reminders that helps remembering and projecting the future as well.

The Map has been written thanks to a working-group built into the Forum for the Ecomuseum.

The group, opened to all, is based on associations, municipal technical, political and individual citizens of Parabiago and neighbouring municipalities. The help from schools has been very useful, that made their own maps and inspired the adults work.

For the grafic design we have to thank the local artist Patrizio croci, map expert who has been drawing for years for some national magazines.

The difference between this map and the other ones is that Croci, in order to realize the community map of Parabiago, based on what emerged from the working group. The map has been delivered previousely in december during the Municipal Council.

In the following monthsa serie of events will be organized to advertise the map (distribution in every class of the school of the town and in every family trough the comunal newspaper and an exhibition.

The Map that is going to come

In the meantime the Technical-Political Committee is achieving, with the help of some trainees from the Universities of Milan, the sound mapwith the recordings of the sounds of the different places in the town, and the interactive map, both have to be published on the Internet site. These maps will allow to deepen the contents of the community map.

Also for these interactive maps is needed the participation and the colaboration of anyone is interested, to be sure that only in this way a common map could become really a community map.

Diary of the map

The parish map of Parabiago has been drafted from a working group opened to all and based on associations, municipal techincals, politicians and individual citizens of Parabiago and the neighbouring towns in 2007.

The technical Committee wrote a questionnaire that has been subjected to the forum for the Ecomuseum, to the associationes and to the children of the elementary and comprehensive schools, and to their parents and grandparents under routes of landscape education, that have been proposed to the Ecomuseum that was joined by 11 classes. Some of these classes realized their maps:

Map of the landscape of the fourth classes from the elementary Manzoni school.

Map of the landscape of the fourth classes from the elementary S. Lorenzo school

Map of the fourth class from the elementary school in Villastanza.

The results of the little poll about the landscape,realized during the conference for the Ecomuseum in February 2007 and of the questionnaire "Luoghi del cuore" have been worked out by the Ecomuseum technic-politic committee and proposed to the working-group during the meeting in may 2007 (read the participation of the organizer about the parish maps (PDF 1,3 Mb) )

The working group couched some proposals about teh contents of the map.

In june the working group, using the childrens' maps, discussed the priorities and the contents that have to be put ion the map drafting a first purpose of parish map.

Between august and september the local artist Patrizio Croci, basing on the proposals that have been formulated, drew the draft of the map, that has been submitted to the working group trough the web and then to the Ecomuseum plenary forum in november.

The technic-politic committee and the artist, considering the received comments, have finally edited the definitive map and the back of the map, which has been distributed at all the polish families at the beginning of 2008. During this year were edited the sound map and the interactive map.

At the beginning of 2009 the map has been reprinted. The back of the map has been updated and corrected.

In 2010 the map has been reprinted again.

The same year the project “Mills Park Turn Me Up” has been made. As the map of Parabiago, has been made a map of the polish and the landscape of the Park in Legnano, San Vittore Olona, Canegrate, Parabiago and Nerviano; this map is finalized to realize the Plane of the Park.

English version by Clara Bellina Ist. Maggiolini Parabiago