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The Fluid City Paradigm: a deeper innovation
2016
Waterfront regeneration needs to be disruptive: a paradigm shift and a deeper innovation of methods and tools must be set up in order to act in the changing times we live. In current global crisis, a true metamorphosis, the strong flows of financial, social and relational capitals that powered regeneration of urban waterfronts over the last twenty years are no longer available to be tapped in an indiscriminate manner as was the case until just a few years ago. The most dynamic cities in the future will no longer be those that are able to attract big projects and rich investors driven by the real estate market or leisure-based development, but the cities have deep socio-cultural diversity an…
LabCity Architecture: Research-Action Activities
2021
The LabCity Architecture is a multidisciplinary research group investigates the phenomena of city transformation through the architectural design, relating the project to current thinking on sustainable cities and to processes for transformation and development of infrastructure, city heritage and public space. The group reinforces the strong connection between research and innovation through constant experimentation processes to broaden the imagination of the architectural scene. The research approach can benefit from solid relations with several European Universities and Cultural Institutions. The 2021 edition of the winter school chose to emphasize the recognition of heterogeneity over h…
Un disegno per Palermo
2010
“La città che manca” is the title of a column, mainly edited by Giuseppe Guerrera, which arises from some of the themes identified in number 13/14 with the aim of documenting design investigations on the scale of urban systems. With the second series of the newspaper in La città che manca a wide-ranging reasoning on the city of Palermo will be illustrated.
Taranto città arcipelago. Un caso di emergenza abitativa
2022
Lo scritto restituisce in chiave critica gli esiti della sperimentazione progettuale, sviluppata in occasione del seminario itinerante di progettazione architettonica Villard, sul tema della rigenerazione dei quartieri di Edilizia Residenziale Pubblica a Taranto. Una città fortemente segnata dalla sensibile questione legata alle oltre millecinquecento richieste di accesso da parte dei cittadini aventi diritto ad una casa. Una condizione che determina un forte disagio sociale nelle famiglie meno abbienti escluse dall’assegnazione di alloggi per la limitata offerta di abitazioni pubbliche. Le aree oggetto di studio del Seminario coincidono con tre distinte parti della città di Taranto: Tambur…
Planning the Neocosmopolitan Habitat
2021
Reflecting on cosmopolitanism is a philosophical activity before it is a political, social or—as far as we are concerned—urban planning action. It requires a deep reflection on the meaning of being connected to a place and also to the whole world, of being individuals and also related to a planetary community and to the consequences of our inhabitation of the Earth (and the Cosmos). Nature, like us humans, is not made up of things in and of themselves, but of an entanglement of relationships and events, of evolutionary processes that take place in time and space. And even our cities do not escape this universal law: everything is correlation, flow, openness, vibration. In short, cosmopolita…
Planning Augmented Cities in the Neoanthropocene
2020
To improve the effects of the connecting “augmented urbanism”, I have set up ten keywords able to reset spatial planning for the Augmented City in the face of the 21st century challenges. The Augmented City’s practices grow with exponential progression doubling its components, connections and impacts seen in the last years, to one incredible and disruptive acceleration. We are surrounded by thousands of practices in the spread of sensors and intelligent devices, in collaborative design and return of urban manufacturing, in explosion of creativity and increase of resilience, and several experiments in recycling of everything, fluidisation and networking of cities, and adoption of incremental…
I luoghi periferici in cui si abilita intelligenza collettiva
2019
Nelle periferie urbane in cui coesistono ampi margini alla modificazione, un surplus di spazi interstiziali e marginali, negli ultimi anni si sta dispiegando la proliferazione di esperienze che aprono il campo a un diverso modo di trasformare le città, in una sorta di resilienza locale alla crisi e al conseguente vuoto di welfare sociale. Uno sguardo alle pratiche in corso sembra indicare una tendenza a spostare l'asset di sviluppo dalla patrimonializzazione immobiliare ad una economia della conoscenza, in cui i beni dismessi si offrano come piattaforme abilitanti dell'azione collettiva, dispositivi spaziali in cui incanalare l'innovazione attraverso il riciclo. Se il Piano Periferie promos…
Intangible smart city inside tangible historic city: smart heritage as regeneration of Euro-Mediterranean realities
2014
The proposed research examines how EU policy is facilitating the construction of smart cities that are confronted with a cultural heritage to be protected, as is already happening in some urban realities of the Euro-Mediterranean band. We will proceed by making comparisons between the strategies adopted, through the identification of the most common civic practices and of the virtual infrastructure used. This article will bring to light how the virtual city descends into the historic one, how these two realities complement each other and when the virtual city makes use of that historical and material one.
No more Masterplan: the Cityforming Protocol
2018
In Europe, the season of urban regeneration has produced important effects both in the review of the urban devices and in the rethinking of the settlement forms and their spatial and human relations. But it cannot be denied that certain diseases emerged which often have anaesthetised – if not cancelled – the regenerative effects envisaged. The urban transition, while it has increased the use of regeneration processes from the bottom, has at the same time extended the epidemic of failures derived from a top-down approach. The critical issues of hierarchical urban regeneration cannot be solved by revising the procedures for participation, improving design devices, or innovating implementation…
MAIFINITO
2014
Grandi quantità di edifici mai completati hanno prodotto speciali paesaggi extra-urbani, ma anche in alcuni casi interni a contesti urbani consolidati. Edifici che subiscono una condizione insita nel costruire: un atto che richiede una quantità di tempo – appunto di "costruzione" – dalla concezione alla realizzazione fino all’inizio del loro ciclo di vita, quindi mai immediato. Un edificio incompleto rimane lì dove è stato pensato e costruito, a volte per molti decenni, a differenza di un progetto, che come tanti, può rimanere in un cassetto. Il territorio di osservazione di partenza di questo libro è l’Italia del Sud e la Sicilia degli ultimi 50 anni, dove il fenomeno degli edifici "maifin…