Against metropolitan dispersion: a multitude of recognisable situations

The metropolitan city is diffused, vast, fragmented and scattered, and leads to the loss of its perimeters and recognisability. In cognitive psychology we encounter countless affinities between mental maps and real maps. Just think of the following keywords, derived and condensed from cognitive theories: \u201cborders, paths, junctions, landmarks and districts\u201d(Costa 2009, p. 15 -20). The city\u2019s boundaries are lost in countless in-between spaces, that often aren\u2019t re-optimized through its most typical feature: the transit

Against urban dislocation: towards a Community Shared Culture and a hyper-connected territory

Dislocation is not an event that happens in space, or even in space. The space itself is dislocation. It is what we can define as \u201cdisjunction\u201d of places or even the original partition that does not cease to take place. Dislocation lives thanks to its opposite. In fact it is the condition of every localization.1 Dislocation in settlement systems appears as an interval between two margins, two regions. Dislocation is necessary to mediate the passage between closed and open systems,2 as villages / countrysides and cities. It is shown as an interval, a sequence following a spatial dynamism; the designer should work on this, overcoming the disjunctions.3 So we do not have to act exclusively locally but through system strategies as the \u201cContinent City\u201d by Yona Friedman, or through linear strategies as the recent interventions on the Parisian p\ue9riph\ue9rique for the Grand Paris projects. In this way the dislocated, peripheral areas are reconnected among them, distributing services, helping the movement of citizens and re-activating their attention towards \u201cnew localizations\u201d. This overturns the concepts of demographic degrowth, it consolidates, integrates and hybridizes local identities generating a \u201cCommunity Shared Culture\u201d while disseminating services and infrastructures on a hyper-connected territory. 1 Goetz, B. [1997]. \u201cLa dislocation: critique du lieu\u201d, in Mangematin, M., Youn\ue8s, C. (edited by), Lieux contemporains, Paris: \uc9ditions de la Passion. 2 Crotti, S. [2000]. Figure architettoniche: soglia, Milano: Unicopoli. 3 Cfr.: Milocco Borlini, M. [2019]. Against Metropolitan Dispersion, http://www.urbanisticatre.uniroma3.it/dipsu/?portfolio=against- metropolitan-dispersion, 4/2019

URBAN CORPORIS X - UNEXPECTED

Starting from the emergency provoked by the Sars-Cov2 that affected the whole world, the book brings the contributions of researchers and artists from all over the world discussing the theme of the \u201cunexpected\u201d, its implication, and inter-action with everyday life. The book presents a series of essays divided into three parts: Living unexpectedly, Missing interactions, and Different sociality. These three categories bring together authors who have had a reading of the unexpected emergency that occurred, pointing out different perspectives upon dynamics and relation caused by this situation, underlining how the isolation period has affected both the domestic and the urban sphere. Moreover, through drawings, photomontages and photographs, several authors gave a visual interpretation of the changed lives, spaces, and routines. All these contributions don\u2019t want to answer to the enormous problems brought by the pandemic. Rather they synthesize an interpretation of the shifting condition that occurred, showing both the great reactive capacity and the fragility of the no longer present reality

Building Site City - Inclusive City. Monitoring of perception degrees and usability in settlements and in the urban landscape.

The following contribution reports some results of research applied to the city of Udine. Identifying the existing critical issues to be solved allows possible urban transformation as an essential requirement to guarantee an inclusive living. The urban monitoring considers the pedestrian connective spaces - part of a selected urban fabric - while identifying the different needs and perceptions of a wide spectrum of users. Therefore, this is an analysis of urban accessibility and porosity aimed at defining a design methodology that allows the subjective assessment of the different and possible users; the limitations related to accessibilitythe possible advisable itineraries, and urban permeability are highlighted in the research. The research considers experimental data corresponding to different \u2018users\u2019 with reduced kinetic and visual skills differentiated by gender and age

Knowledge and smart sensing for an accessible city. Experimenting on the territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia

The contribution presents state-of-the-art critically through the results of some applied research financed with public funds in areas related to the concept of innovability understood as an ‘innovative’ approach to the environmental accessibility of urban places. This condition is functional to planning, implementing, and managing urban contexts from an environmental and economically ‘sustainable’ point of view. Through these experiences, it is possible to give a sufficiently an in-depth picture of the ICT tools adopted, and the potential of the tools and experiences created. Focusing on users’ needs and evaluating urban/environmental performance leads to evaluating the current situation in medium-sized urban centres. The reported case studies show the high potential of computerisation of the urban management processes, which does not correspond to a convincing social, economic, political and cultural context due to its partial and inefficient application of ICT. These results present some possible actions on the interface and governance of the human-built environment to design a future ‘smart’, ‘innovative’ and ‘sustainable’ city

Beyond the body – Rethinking the architectural module to promote social inclusion

The architectural module has long been associated with the concept of measurement, where standardisation of the human body is used to define absolute modularity. With the awareness of human diversity, this narrow view of the module’s applicability is problematic, particularly in processes of environmental accessibility and inclusion. This paper critically explores the limits of the traditional measurement module, rethinking the concept of modularity to account for physical and perceptive diversity. By doing so, we aim to promote social inclusion and universal design in architectural projects for people. The paper concludes that the evolution of the concepts of the module and the human being requires a revision of their very meanings, calling for a more inclusive approach to design and planning in our contemporary world.   Article info Received: 16/09/2023; Revised: 19/10/2023; Accepted: 30/10/202

Urban Corporis X - Unexpected

Starting from the emergency provoked by the Sars-Cov2 that affected the whole world, the book brings the contributions of researchers and artists from all over the world discussing the theme of the “unexpected”, its implication, and inter-action with everyday life. The book presents a series of essays divided into three parts: Living unexpectedly, Missing interactions, and Different sociality. These three categories bring together authors who have had a reading of the unexpected emergency that occurred, pointing out different perspectives upon dynamics and relation caused by this situation, underlining how the isolation period has affected both the domestic and the urban sphere. Moreover, through drawings, photomontages and photographs, several authors gave a visual interpretation of the changed lives, spaces, and routines. All these contributions don’t want to answer to the enormous problems brought by the pandemic. Rather they synthesize an interpretation of the shifting condition that occurred, showing both the great reactive capacity and the fragility of the no longer present reality

Administrative Disasters and Tactical Alternatives. Shigeru Ban\u2019s Paper Concert Hall in L\u2019Aquila

Excerpt: \uab[...]Tactical urbanism is born out of a desire for gradual change, a collection of local ideas with feasible and real objectives, and a development of cooperation with public institutions. Tactical urbanism is a grassroots approach and is based on making people involved. It promotes a type of social and urban activism. The famous sentence \u201cFassin dibessoi!\u201d (We\u2019ll do it on our own!), used by the people of Friuli in the aftermath of the 1976 earthquake, was \u2013 maybe \u2013 a poetic preview of the matters discussed.\ub