A contaminated "Drop"

A contaminated “Drop” represents the manifesto of a reality in which both men and Earth have reached a geological phase, also known as “Anthropocene”. This phase consists of a state of being in which the terrestrial environment is strongly conditioned by men’s actions. Hence, the planet Earth undergoes both visible and invisible changes, with effects showing both on a local and global scale. But what if these visible changes are just the tip of a drifting iceberg of a lost continent? And what if the foundations of a city are nothing more than residual layers, no longer belonging to geological history, but they are discards of human development instead? In the Po Valley there is a contemporary invisible "necropolis" made up of graves containing industrial and social waste, which are both contaminated and contaminating at the same time. The waste produced has become a new element of a now compromised biological chain. Nowadays, these contaminated traces can be an opportunity to redefine the degraded and polluted spaces, by being used as paths and parks for example. Moreover, they can also be used in green areas to carry out botanical experimentation for land reclamation, becoming themselves an Experimental Botanical Garden, and therefore transforming an environmental problem into a social and scientific resource.