CROSSING RESEARCHES, The Morandi Bridge and La Val Polcevera

Before the Morandi Bridge Disaster, the territory of the Val Polcevera was understood as a continuous flow of goods and people: it is a landscape of passage; a landscape formed by the sum of all these transits, which is often experienced by those who cross it only as a place of rapid travel and passage. In that sense, the idea of a “Passage to the West” translates that territorial gaze into a broader scope with important challenges of preservation and transformation. The term “Crossland” (Gausa) translates the desire to “weave” the Val Polcevera by fostering the emergence of a latent, infrastructur- al and landscape-related geometry, tied to its condition of fluvial (multi)flow: