Waterways are essential components of the living and non-living world. They shape landscapes and serve as demarcation lines as “natural borders”between states in many parts of the world. In addition to being lines that separate, rivers and streams are also lines that connect, and borderland territories are often particularly rich places of life, interaction, passage, porosity, cross-pollination and exchange.The Po Valley is one of the most important industrial and agricultural areas in Europe. However the cities eat the rural, and the rural eats the wilderness and exploits the river Po, creating a polluted space rather than being the lungs of the city.
For instance this research was born to address the River Po, the landscape and the agriculture in the city of Cremona through the recovery, re-valorisation, re-connection, re-integration of the river Po for the city. One of the main goals is to intermingling and blurring the distinction between land and water, between rural and urban, between Po and Cremona.
Go with the Po is a project that imagines the river as a new, active, social space for interrelating that operates across scales and programs. It defines how inhabitants of Cremona interact among themselves and with their surrounding ecosystem. On a community scale, it becomes a space for innovation for agriculture and ecosystem and reduction of pollution. On a territorial scale, it connects the city of Cremona with every other territory watered by the Po as it flows.