City’s call for new representation 300000kms is a group of architect and planning based in Barcelona defining the new approaches to the city as a multiple scale system, from neighbourhoods to the larger dimension, and produce data on several topics, relevant in a worldwide scale.…
How to design for the responsive city? Today we have the knowledge and means to realize whatever we imagine, witnessing advancements in production technology not only in the architecture field but, in biology, ecology, virtual engineering as well. In fact, a radical shift is in…
Looking for adaptive cities UN-habitat promotes socially and environmentally sustainable cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. Population is growing exponentially every year and city are the centres of massively production and consumption of goods, opportunities and diseases. Slum people, in fact, have…
The rise of closed worlds We live in offices. We spend our life in atmospherically sealed enclosures that define collective, internally rational and self-referential spaces eternally processing inputs and outputs. Since the pilot project of NASA living pod in 1960, man has been treated as…
Designing for climate What could be a strategy for urban design today? In the developing of Jade Eco Park, Taichung (Taiwan), we exploited the climate issue as the main reference for the project. The result was a three-layer masterplan based on heat, humidity and pollution…
Entering the inners of technology What are we really talking about when it gets to technologies? Technology itself has a dual nature. It can both provide tools for a positive contribution as well as the opposite, according to its use. However, the digital phenomenon presumes…
Gaming platforms as tools for town planning in the real world Colossal Order is a nineteen-people game developer company based in Tampere, Finland, which focus its research on simulations, basically reproducing events and processes of the real world into a gaming platform with a modest addition…
Barcelona requires us to fight against inequalities. Ecology and the challenge against climate change are the elements we want the municipality to work on, side by side with its citizens because what makes smart a city are people, not sensors. Therefore, we consider neighbourhoods as main…
Living better with sharing People gather in cities with different needs of services or interests while city’s resources, nowadays especially with the crisis, remain flat if not decreasing. It is time to be smart: to find a smart way to reduce this gap. The…
We are in the midst of a revolution in the way that knowledge and culture are created, accessed and transformed. Citizens, artists and consumers are no longer powerless and isolated in the face of the content production and distribution industries:…