Botanica Temporanea
An experimental project that brings together nature, science, and art, promoted by BiM and the University of Milan-Bicocca, curated by landscape architect Antonio Perazzi with the artistic contribution of Patrick Tuttofuoco.
A laboratory for experimentation at the intersection of scientific research, art, and botany, open to everyone, involving the two large flowerbeds at the center of the BiM Garden, with the aim of creating a scalable model applicable to metropolitan areas.
The study aims to share knowledge, skills, and technologies in order to create a multifunctional green square designed to become a social gathering point, offering shelter during the hottest periods of the year and helping to improve air quality, providing long-term benefits for the environment and the communities within the area of intervention. Alongside the analyses conducted by researchers from the Departments of Biotechnology and Biosciences (BtBs) and Environmental and Earth Sciences (DISAT) of the University of Milan-Bicocca, the project includes artistic installations, publications, and meetings with industry experts, fostering a shared reflection on the importance of vegetation in urban contexts and its economic value in society, while also exploring the role of art in the landscape through the interactions between artworks and the environment.
Botanica Temporanea anticipates BiM’s landscape project, which will extend over a total area of more than 6,000 square meters of garden within the building’s inner square.
The landscape exists even without us,
it does not know it has a name, nor does it know time. It has no purpose other than to exist. Every place, through plants and other living organisms, holds a potential called self-regeneration. 
University of Milan-Bicocca
The study conducted by the University of Milan-Bicocca’s Departments of Environmental and Earth Sciences (DISAT) and Biotechnology and Biosciences (BtBs) is based on the collection and analysis of data from the various phases over a 17-month period, focusing on the two BiM flowerbeds under investigation and the surrounding area. The primary goal is to create a multifunctional green square and to develop a landscape design method capable of generating tangible benefits for both the environment and people, producing a guiding project that can be replicated in other urban contexts.
PHASE 1 – Mapping the current state and analyzing ecosystem services
PHASE 2 – Developing the experimental plan: sowing and urban heat island study
PHASE 3 – Results analysis, support for the final design of the square, and preliminary measures in regenerated areas
PHASE 4 – Final report highlighting the results achieved
Chlorophilia:
Patrick Tuttofuoco’s artistic installations
Artist Patrick Tuttofuoco will intervene within the two BiM flowerbeds with an installation that explores the relationship between people and landscape, offering visitors different ways to interact with nature.
CHLOROPHILIA IS A TERM THAT DEFINES A PHYSICAL ATTRACTION TO PLANTS. FROM HERE COMES THE DESIRE TO BUILD A PLAN OF INTERACTION AND EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE BiM COMMUNITY AND THE RENEWED BiM GARDEN. THE HUMAN–NATURE RELATIONSHIP WITHIN PUBLIC AND URBAN SPACE WILL BE ADDRESSED BY INVITING VISITORS TO PAUSE AND SIT, ENCOURAGING AWARENESS—INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE—OF THE PRESENCE OF NATURE.
