+ CASCINE is a choral contribution of civic imagination on Florence’s Cascine Park, created to promote its identity as a cultural institution and common good.
It was a path of research, stakeholder engagement and communication, promoted by Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, with the aim of bring the issue of governance, protection, enhancement and livability of Florence’s largest green lung back to the city’s attention. Beginning with desk research on key features of the Park’s history and heritage, LAMA conducted in-depth interviews with experts, park business operators, cultural institutions and public administration referents, which produced a collective imagination document, an augmented map of the Park and a call for projects intended to create a public digital archive of the many studies and projects insisting on the Park from various disciplinary perspectives.
