In the movie “Only Lovers left Alive” (2013) two vampires live in Detroit in a constant situation of danger, therefore they can still perceived the beauty of the environment around them and rejoice from the dramatic and gothic context. In…
The topic of my lecture is Adaptation and, first of all, I want to go strict to the dictionary and compare this concept with the meaning of Resilience. Resilience is the power or ability to return to the original…
In the last years the biggest change is the influence of technology in our society. Also communication and community change. Now they don’t need their own place, people could be connected remotely without a place of connection. We moved from…
The world resilience is becoming more and more popular today. The importance of the concept is due to the sense of urgency of this historical, dramatic moment. A few recent examples are Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster (March 11, 2011);…
II will talk about Resilience and Infrastructures of public space in Madrid. The restoration of Rio Manzanares, the main river in the city of Madrid, started in 2005. The main part of the project was developed until 2011, but the…
In contemporary age urbanisation is growing increasingly. How do rural and urban lifestyles and settlement areas influence each other? Can a global back country develop via rural fringes, country pioneers, and local energies? Which spatial structures and methods prevail in…
Italo Calvino, in his book of 1988, LezioniAmericane, wrote six memos for the 21th century, including in the list: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, and Consistency. Saying the contradictions of contemporary life, these are the key questions for the creation…
Going through images and projects I will show you the research we made for an exhibition held at the Cité de l’Architeture et du Patrimoine, in Paris, where we rediscovered how deeply mankind has changed the face of Earth. …
Talking about adaptations, I want to introduce the idea of responsiveness as a kind of tool or a behaviour that we can achieve through our design and proposal of systems and systemic approaches. Responsive environments are an outcome of all…
Talking about resilience in a fragile territory like Italy today, it seems very difficult and make us responsible to find new answers and process to face such a complex challenge. Today our environments are facing different metamorphosis. The first…