During the civil week in Milano on the 8-11 of May 2025, Osservatorio Lambro Lucente held several initiatives with water at the center, and the role this resource plays in shaping landscape and guaranteeing life, lives!

Together with Dario Kian and Daniela Masotti, they presented the PALIMPSEST project and its Milanese initiative and achievements. ACQUA LAMBRO project by artists gethan&myles (winners of the PALIMPSEST Open Call for Milan) was enthusiastically introduced by Daniela Masotti, while Dario Kian shared the takeaways of the PALIMPSEST adventure with the audience.

As Dario Kian expressed, creativity and art can carry important messages, and this one was clear. Rivers need our dialogues, attentiveness and attention…put simply, they need our care!

Language gaps can be hard to bridge: engineers speaking with architects? At the beginning, it seemed to be a crazy idea, yet ACQUA LAMBRO project coming to life, is the proof that an “impossible idea”, like making Lambro water drinkable, isn’t always impossible.

Now, new initiatives are taking shape with Lambro Osservatorio, FAI – Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano and Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente. The event was also an occasion for the PALIMPSEST project to explore a collaboration with two other projects: ECHOES EU and iCOSHELLs.