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In the eighth-floor terrace of his Milan residence, professor Roberto Vecchioni has maintaining a watchful eye over his city, a city that he believes is profoundly intertwined with its sociability. As the Lombard capital tentatively begins to revive, navigating fears, nightlife restrictions, and questions about the future, Vecchioni recounts the long lockdown and the silence that enveloped it to IL and Radio24. He is convinced that Milan cannot survive without its social life, its web of relationships. And he emphasizes that the city's strength lies in its people, urging it to press forward, as the motto goes: 'tiremm innanz', or let's move forward.
The heart of Milan, Vecchioni argues, is its dynamic interpersonal relationships, which drive its meetings that transform into opportunities and projects. During the pandemic, this vitality has been halted and significantly slowed down. Will Milan's lifestyle undergo a transformation, according to him? Milan, he claims, is the only real Italian city, albeit small in size but packed with quality. It has endured a hard blow from the emergency, teetering precariously between life and death. Art, economy, work, and thought—when the heart stops, circulation ceases. Every organ thinks it can live independently, but it cannot. Consequently, no country, city, or Italian region can thrive if Milan falters.
The Milanese, Vecchioni asserts, will have the resilience to recover, drawing on their capacity to take risks. They understand that they must move ahead, even incurring some risk. On one scale, there will be the threat of illness; on the other, the necessity to resume life.
The city that once lived and breathed through its social relationships now confronts the question of whether these ties can be rekindled, even after they were partly replaced by social media and video calls for months. "It cannot be missing," says Vecchioni emphatically. He likens its absence to the absence of Genoa's sea or Rome's churches—inexplicable losses that would irrevocably alter the essential character of each city. Milan's strength resides in the active power of its people, and the potential risk of illness, he asserts, weighs lighter than the consequences of inactivity.
There were controversies, particularly during the initial stages of the emergency, about invitations not to halt. In Vecchioni's opinion, these appeals will eventually triumph over fears. "Milan's nature is not to ever stop," he states. To truly grasp Milan, one must inhabit it, not merely observe it from a distance.
The science of workplace-wellness and health-and-wellness in Milan, according to Professor Roberto Vecchioni, is directly linked to the city's sociable nature and the active power of its people. He suggests that a transformation in Milan's lifestyle might occur, but the absence of personal connections, as symbolized by the city's dynamic interpersonal relations, would be a detrimental loss for Milan's identity, much like the absence of the sea in Genoa or the churches in Rome.
