Bicocca shoes going to...

The Bicocca is a melting pot of students, instructors and researchers at the university and the research centers, employees in the advanced tertiary sector, people working in logistic and personal services, a public made up of participants in scientific congresses and people attending cultural activities at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, and finally local inhabitants. The distinctive feature of these populations is their metropolitan dimension and the fact that they are reinventing a typically post-Fordist model of use the Bicocca, Characterized by a multiplicity of calendars,complex mobility and the use of local resources for activities not connected solely with work. (G. Martinotti, M. Boffi, 2002, "Milan-Bicocca Knowledge City: The University and the Metropolis" in "La nascita di una università nuova: Milano-Bicocca", Skira, Milan)