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#BocconiLovesMilan: Milan As Seen by International Students and Faculty

, by Benedetta Ciotto
30 photos provide an alternative itinerary through Milan, rediscovering the city with the fresh and curious gaze of foreign students and professors. The exhibition will be on display in the Piazza Sraffa Velodromo building until 29 September

Getting lost on the streets of Brera, cheering on your team on the San Siro Stadium bleachers, eating an ice cream while crossing the San Cristoforo Bridge, strolling with friends along the Darsena, seeking culinary inspiration from the Viale Papiniano market stalls. This is how international Bocconi professors and students experience Milan, 30 of whom are the protagonists of #BocconiLovesMilan. This photo project features an exhibition opening today in the Velodromo (Piazza Sraffa 13 building), held as part of Welcome Days and open until September 29. (Click here for the photos)

The Bocconi community, which has expanded with new students over the past few days, is accompanied on a journey to (re)discover the city of Milan at the exhibition, which includes a map of the city. The students and faculty involved in the snapshots come from 18 different countries (the student community is made up of over 100 nationalities) and are part of a culturally diverse community on campus: at Bocconi, one out of three students is international, as is 20% of the faculty.

They appreciate different aspects of Milan: some love the internationality and the dynamism, others the vivacity and the organization, as well as the culture, the architecture, the events or the food. They have chosen to be photographed in a wide variety of locations. Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, a French professor, loves Circolo Arci Bellezza, "because it symbolizes the cultural and social diversity of Milan and its role of integration," and Ina Dimova, a Macedonian student, poses in Piazza Gae Aulenti, "an area where you can feel the spirit of a truly metropolitan city." Fernando Vega-Redondo, a Spanish professor, never tires of admiring the Sant'Ambrogio Church, "a combination of austerity, elegance, and spirituality," and Albanian student Kristi Çelari can't resist being portrayed in front of the La Scala, "in all its majesty."

This is just a small taste of the exhibition that all Bocconi students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in. With the hashtag #BocconiLovesMilan on social media, anyone can share the photos featuring their favorite places in the city of Milan.


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