International distance learning design experiences. Above the clouds, a project for a temporary event in the Bolognetta valley

The health emergency due to the spread of COVID-19 has required a methodological and technological adaptation to the entire world of teaching and researching, in order to define in a brief time new methods for designing and teaching. In consideration of this, Campus Asia1 decided to organize one of the key events of its educational offer in a distance learning form, an international winter school with overn eighty participants and five international guest universities. Together with Kyushu University (China), Tongji University (Japan) and Pusan National University (South Korea), the edition held between 15 and 26 February 2021 saw the participation of two European partner universities, the …

Campus Asia “Cinema Paradise” 2021. “Above the clouds”: Un progetto temporaneo per la Valle di Bolognetta

In the frame of the international winter school organized by Campus Asia, the Valley of Bolognetta has been chosen by the LabCity Architecture group as the official site for an architectural competition. On the 30th anniversary of the Academy Award to Maestro Giuseppe Tornatore, Campus Asia promoted “Cinema Paradise” as main theme to design an architectural project that is envisioned as strictly connected to the people and to the environment. The project “Above the cloud”, presented by LabCity Architecture Team from the University of Palermo, joins nature and architecture through the design of a performative event.

Cose dell'altro mondo

Emigrato negli anni Trenta da Palermo in America, Ferdinando Sesti Lojacono fu corrispondente del Giornale di Sicilia con la rubrica "Lettere dall'America". A quasi cento anni di distanza, il volume curato da Flavia e Maurizio Schiavo consegna ai lettori una serie sorprendente di scritti sofisticati, ironici e profondi, che mettono in prospettiva nuove forze economiche, trasformazioni sociali e urbane, modi di abitare, mestieri e desideri. Cose dell'altro mondo, attraverso le quali situare in una prospettiva leggermente più ampia altri celebri racconti europei dell’America, da Le Corbusier a Baudrillard, sino alle narrazioni più recenti che utilizzano New York come metafora eterna di deside…

Above The Clouds: LabCity_Architecture

The Winter Workshop “Cinema Paradise CAMPUS_Asia: SUAE_Asia 2021” brought to the attention of 14 teams and 5 Universities the challenge of contemporary architectural design in relation to a site of great naturalistic importance. In fact, the Bolognetta Valley, and in particular the location of the cave and the San Nicola waterfall, are located in the Sicilian hinterland, not far from the city of Palermo, in a context-free from the human presence. Here it is strong the necessity to find a design approach that can constitute a mediation between the built and the natural elements. The presence of the Milicia river then is also central to the whole understanding of the site, due to the restrict…

Schiavo F., Schiavo M. (a cura di, 2019). Lettere dall’America. 1930-1932, Torri del Vento Edizioni, Palermo