SS36. City song

a cura di Roberta Pagani

SS36 is an interdisciplinary research project on the state road 36

SS36 is the state road that runs through the urban and foothill landscape of northern Brianza, from the outskirts of Milan to Valtellina and Switzerland, the Milano-Lecco-Chiavenna, which incorporates the old Valassina expressway.

SS36 is a project that involves a research group in the field of visual and sound arts (curators, architects, photographers, artists, musicians) to observe the complex and articulated territory of the state road 36 and its changes in landscape, culture and society.
Starting from a site-specific investigation, SS36 aims to gather proposals and interpretations of the contemporary landscape - of its present and of its most recent history - with new, interdisciplinary projects that will build an archive in progress, in an attempt at a reading articulated in different languages and formats.

under the patronage of the Province of Monza and Brianza | Municipality of Monza | City of Lissone | City of Seregno | MAC – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Lissone. With the support of Consorzio Villa Reale e Parco di Monza | Fondazione Pietro Rossini | Rossini Art Site
Included in the pH_2015 calendar, a project funded within the Distretto Culturale Evoluto di Monza e Brianza on the occasion of Ville Aperte, as part of Meet Brianza Expo

Urban centers are an expression of our collective will, a powerful blend of economic and environmental choices, private visions and public dreams. The SS36 was established with the following path: Milano, Lecco, Chiavenna Spluga, Swiss Border. It's a huge urban area. It's a very productive and entrepreneurial area, characterized by important roads. One of the main element of the ss36 area is loud and continue noise, generated by cars and tracks. The noise is often associated with the majority of the phases of the activity related to the human development cycle. Transportation system -including roads, airports, airplanes, trains, ships - is one of the most common source of noise present in all types of landscape. The streets deserve special attention, because they are a widespread and fast growing source of noise. Although the surface covered by roads is relatively small, their effects on the environment, including noise, extend well beyond the roads itself.
The characteristics of noise change substantially depending on the source that generates it. The noise is identified in its amplitude (for example, the volume), in frequency, in time and in its spatiality. The interaction of these features determines in a strict sense the impact of noise on wild animals. The majority of anthropogenic noise sources have an energy concentrated in low frequencies (<250 Hz), which can reach long distances with little loss of energy. This noise is also more difficult to control using conventional noise abatement structures, such as reflective or absorbent walls along highways.