October 23

Snapshots from Creativity Festival

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(Photos © Ludovica Brigalli – Foto © Ludovica Brigalli)

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Urban Metamorphoses: from Montreal to Brasilia, passing by Dubai. Exhibition in the City Talk department – Metamorfosi Urbane: da Montreal a Brasilia passando per Dubai. Mostra all’interno del dipartimento City Talk

Montréal, Medellin, Buenos Aires, Milano, Parigi, Dubai, Il Cairo, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Belem, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Sao Paulo, Brasilia. E’ andato lontano lo sguardo del Festival della Creatività, quest’anno! Il progetto Metamorfosi Urbane ha voluto indagare le trasformazioni in atto in alcune città del mondo: Seoul, capitale mondiale del design nel 2010 e Shanghai sede dell’expo 2010 che ospiterà l’ambizioso progetto del padiglione Italia, “Better city. Better life”. E ancora, Il Cairo e gli interessanti casi della città dei morti e del garbage village attraverso i contributi del Cospe e di alcuni antropologi. Non ultimo, gli ambiziosi interventi urbanistici che trasformeranno alcune zone di Milano in previsione di Expo 2015 e di Parigi (progetto del Grand Paris). Read more

October 14

Creativity Festival – Future Cities in Florence

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15+16+17+18 October 2009
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The 2009 programme will offer four days of meetings, talkshows, workshops and live performances with artists, scholars and scientists coming from all over the world. The programme was inspired by the scientist’s forecasts of a 80% of the world population living in “urban contexts” by 2050, and is meant as a laboratory for the future focusing on the city as its most immediate locus for confontation and experimentation. Among the cities, going through an important public and private transformation, under the festival’s magnifying glass are: Medellin, Seoul (2010 design capital), Shanghai (Expo 210), Dubai, Cairo, Milan (Expo 2015), San Paolo, Brasilia, Paris and Tokyo. Read more

August 19

UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel to build Raffles City Hangzhou in China

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UNStudio’s design for the mixed-use Raffles City development is located near the Qiangtan River in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, located 180 kilometres southwest of Shanghai. With a city population of 1.69 million, Hangzhou is one of the most renowned and prosperous cities in China and is well known for its beautiful natural scenery, particularly in the West Lake area. Read more

July 13

Master Course in Designing for the Historical City

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June 29

12xMilano

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June 18

Disappearing Milan. Aria, by Alberto Dedè

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(Text by Simona Galateo, video © Alberto Dedé)

Aria is a visual experiment first featured in the exhibition Dreaming Milano in the span of the Salone del Mobile week. Photographer Alberto Dedè’s project has the purpose of giving air form and materiality as a physical element, through the sequential assembling of a series of 17 images, shot in different days. Framing and point of view are the constant elements the project develops on. The video shows the disappearance of the city of Milan. The rapid condensation of the pollution, produced by the city, is here represented as a curtain, progressively denying the clear vision of the city and becoming the same subject of the visual field. Suddenly the air is a dense and heavy substance, it descends on the city with big quiet and measure, till it swallows the city completely with all its weight. For a little while, as in a bad nightmare or a subtle dream, it still remains a sort of tabula rasa. For a little while there’s the possibility to guess. What will follow? What could the signs for the future be? What kind of surprise will hide behind this white space? Read more

June 17

PARASITE ARCHITECTURE. Book presentation tomorrow

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The emanation of building-restricting and renovation-fostering norms in several European countries triggered a research for recycling strategies of given spaces in XXI century’s architectural debate.
We’re facing a re-proposition of a so-called – and actually rather ancient – parasite planning practice, seeing the immission of new architectural bodies in pre-existing buildings or urban structures.
The parasite organism appears distinct from its guest both formally and spacially, but it’s linked to it by a state of need (of soil, systems, meaning, etc). On one hand, the intrusion of new architecture in the existing setting seems like a possible urban growth model, an answer to the need of densification, while on the other it testifies the emersion of informal practices requiring spatial translations of the sudden changes of the ordinary. Read more

April 16

Dreaming Milano opens tomorrow

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The holding Il Sole 24 Ore and Graniti Fiandre present the precious exhibition Dreaming Milano (vernissage on April 17; open from April 22 to 26), curated by our Luca Molinari in occasion of this year’s Salone del Mobile week in Milan.
The event’s goal is to tell with immediacy and simplicity Milan’s ability to breed architectural and urban visions in order to build its future along the 20th Century. The exhibition also aims at stimulating a more courageous approach to building an innovative and more sustainable metropolis for the future coming.
Milan is crossing the threshold of a new and essential phase of its development. It’s facing the 2015 Expo challenge and it’s launching the instruments for its urban and territorial growth for the next decades (specifically the PGT, Piano di Governo del Territorio, strategic plan for Milan). It’s a crucial test which asks for boldness, innovative ideas and visions able to build a unique urban identity. Read more

April 10

Devastating earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy

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After experiencing the sudden and terrible sorrow for the too many victims caused by the violent earthquake that destroyed the city of Aquila this week, along with part of the surrounding towns and territories, the harsh debate on reconstruction is calling for. Hereafter we propose you an excerpt from yesterday’s editorial by architect and critic Pippo Ciorra, published on the italian newspaper Il Manifesto. We’ll do our best, from now on, to keep you updated on this delicate issue which we refrained from until now, out of respect for our fellows in Abruzzo. Read more

 

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