For the inauguration to the public, from 18 to 20 June, there is a 3-day program that invites you to reflect on the relationship between man and nature with talks, workshops, film screenings, workshops and a flower and plant market.

Visitors will be able to experience a design method that aims to inspire and stimulate the creation of low-maintenance gardens – they emerge spontaneously in the urban environment and therefore do not require large investments – capable of increasing the quality of life and at the same time redeveloping very different spaces, as parks, public places or on the edge of natural, rural and urban landscapes.

“The experimental current that I have called Temporary Botany is confirmed as an effective design approach strategy to reactivate the biological processes that bring together the world of people with that of plants and animals” explains Antonio Perazzi. “I see Manifattura Tabacchi as the ideal soil to sink new roots that make plants, ethics, creativity and culture sprout”.

The landscape architect, who collaborates in the landscape design of the entire restoration of Manifattura Tabacchi, reflected on how the former industrial space, first ordered according to a production logic and purely anthropocentric and then abandoned for about 20 years following its closure in 2001, in a second phase it has become a place where plants have remained free to organize themselves according to their own plant criteria.

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Today the new landscape project by Antonio Perazzi opens the doors to a scientific and cultural encounter of mutual knowledge between plants and man, in a new perspective of use and coexistence in the same spaces. No longer exploitation, oppression and hostility, but an innovative coexistence between people and nature, the bearer of mutual benefits born from the virtuous integration of nature and local architecture.

“Temporary Botany anticipates and explores the themes of the landscape project being studied for Manifattura, which will have its iconic synthesis in the hanging garden on the roof of building 11” explains Michelangelo Giombini, Head of Product Development of Manifattura Tabacchi. “The new landscape proposed by Perazzi will enhance the spaces between the buildings together with the new functions that will be installed there, in deep relationship with the architecture and proposing a beneficial coexistence between people and nature in the greatest experiment of urban regeneration in Italy. We like the idea that even in this aspect of the transformation of the former factory, the project is characterized by a high degree of experimentation”.