You may know it as “Mikado” or “Shangai” (for Italian players) or “Palitos chinos” (for Spanish players). The purpose of the game is to collect the sticks, one at a time, that have been dropped on a table in a circular jumble, without moving the neighbouring ones.
To do this you need to have a very firm hand, to pay attention to how the sticks touch each other, and have a mind capable of predicting the future of this tangle.
Thus, to play it takes: attention, precision, delicacy, and a strategic vision.
Now, imagine the table as an artificial environment, e.g. a city, and the sticks are its typical variables, such as: urban fabric, demography, urban greenery and parks, water infrastructure, etc.
These variables are often closely interlinked, which makes these environments extremely complex.
…and here mgb comes in.
– mgb is the acronym of Massimiliano Granceri Bradaschia –
Mgb detects, analyses, and evaluates the critical variables of these complex environments, providing tailor-made consulting services or intervening strategically according to the context’s needs.
Extracting them from the circular jumble (due to actions or practices), by using a special lever (due to knowledge production), or by making a delicate pressure (due to policy recommendations), mgb aims to strategically move or take up the critical sticks.
The professional skills and expertise in urban contexts make mgb a player – an urban planner, an evaluator, an expert in public policies analysis – able to manage and operate in complex environments such as today’s cities.
mgb provides services to clients based on high scientific knowledge and forward-looking hints capable of triggering an effective adaptive path addressing 21st century challenges.
