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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…
Can the city think? How to design for resilience? 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…
Can we define a new transversal approach to the city? 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…
Can we anticipate, adapt, integrate and operate cities? The greatest revolution of information Interact and interactive information in between people, space, complexities is the big revolution of our era and this new knowledge of thinking. The last few decades have confirmed the consequences of…
How do we re-learn our urban environment? Adhocracy in contemporary city Adhocracy is the system of flexible and informal organization and management in place of rigid bureaucracy. The first edition of adhocracy was based on the use of digital tools. In 2012 for Istanbul…
How can data help us in representing city’s methabolism? 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,…
This video demonstrates how new data and analysis approaches not only transform the way we think about cities in comparison to each other, but also improve our understanding of urban environments at the fine urban design scale.