Achieving such a beautiful and important goal, as a degree is, forces one to review the route they just accomplished.
I go back to who I was five years ago quite tenderly: a person with little experience but a lot of hope in those people who would come with me along this route. I can’t call it a long route anyway, because its end, which seemed to be so far and unreachable, is now a pleasant memory.
Time flew by, albeit rapidly, and busy days full of obstacles were scattered with a lot of people who – each in their own way – added a piece to this story and undoubtedly turned me into the present person; I’m referring to my professors, who played a substantial role in my building my knowledge; to my newly-acquired friends, who shared my everyday life; and, obviously, to my family, who supported me and has been constantly teaching me values I will always carry with me. This award allows me to include, although only remotely, also other people to such a long list: Giannino and Daniela, whose dedication and love for us young people I deeply appreciate.
I’m twenty-five now and I am in a wind whirl of changes due to passing time. In this turmoil of emotions, doubts, and questions, I feel only right to address my thoughts to Marco and Gloria: in my own small way, I hope that the passion and love I put daily in my developing career may make them a little bit proud.
A spark for my thesis came from the clear transformation nature has undergone in metropolitan areas. This urges one to reconsider the city forms as a whole, by using the urban patterns as a testing field able to give birth to new scenarios.
After this hard work, to which sacrifice and passion have been companions, receiving this award makes me grateful and honoured.
I would like to thank the Grenfellove Foundation – Daniela and Giannino in particular – for trusting me and my work and, first of all, for the opportunity they offer worthy young people of fulfilling their dreams with the same strength and resolution that were Marco and Gloria’s characteristics.
I feel really obligated for being included in this project and for being enabled, in my own small way, to help keep these two young persons’ memory, passion and fortitude alive.
Music and dance with Luis Lanzarini, the string quartet of the Filarmonìa Veneta orchestra, Lincoln Veronese, Walter Bonadè and Angela Gonella’s Academy Danza honour the third anniversary of Grenfellove in the Romano Pascutto theatre in San Stino di Livenza (metropolitan city of Venice), where donations are collected to finance the completion of a Snoezelen multisensory room in the same town for disabled children’s learning support.
The House of Charity Work in San Stino di Livenza (metropolitan city of Venice) is dedicated to Marco and Gloria.
The families from Rubano (province of Padua) having given birth to babies during 2020 plant small trees in the Etnographic Park on behalf of their newborns. The Municipality has been carrying out this initiative for many years, thus increasing the Park green heritage and immediately providing Rubano’s new citizens with a leading role in the environmental care.
Two pyramid-shaped hornbeams are planted in memory of Gloria and Marco in the afternoon.
Giannino and Daniela meet in Milan some representatives of Grenfell Next of Kin (an association of bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower victims), an evacuee of the Torre dei Moro (a shortly-before blazed apartment tower in Milan) and architect Stefano Boeri.
The Foundation’s idea about the restoring of the Grenfell Tower site is presented.