25|26|27|28 October 2016 Genova, Italy Med.Net 03 Forum, ADD organized two days of scientific and creative meeting and exchange dedicated to promote a strategic vision about the theme of “resilience” and its innovative approach: International Symposium MED.NET. KAAU (Advanced Urban…
We at Santa & Cole design and edit urban furniture, elements and lighting fixtures for cities. Since 1985, we have worked on regular cities, modern cities, transgressive cities, renovated cities, smart cities (you name it) and, nowadays, responsive cities. However,…
The first edition of the Responsive Cities Symposium, chaired by Areti Markopoulou, with program chairs Chiara Farinea and Mathilde Marengo, has just closed its doors establishing itself as a major event in the architectural debate. Fifteen outstanding keynote speakers, fifty-four international panelists and more than…
New, innovative approaches to learn urban planning & design Check presentation presented at Responsive Cities Symposium on: Emerging Trends on learning Advanced Urbanism Innovative Learning experiences Positive impacts of innovative experiences You can also download the report "Identifying Current Practices in…
What are we talking about when it gets to technology? 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…
How can we establish the common city? 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…
How can cities exploit citizens potential? 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…
How to solve issue locally to influence the globality? FabCities for global improvement More than 200 years since the Industrial Revolution, global urbanisation keeps accelerating. United Nations projections indicate that 75% of the human population will be living in cities by 2050. We are…
Is the idea of self sufficiency compulsive? 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…
Is the gaming approach a possible tool for citizen inclusion? 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…