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Papers by Cecilia De Marinis

The Journal of Public Space

2020 has challenged our ways of living and making sense of the world, driving us to rethinking ou... more 2020 has challenged our ways of living and making sense of the world, driving us to rethinking our daily life in both the private and public spheres. Public space has especially been questioned; our understanding of it and the way we use it have been completely revolutionised, opening up new interpretations and evaluations.At the end of 2020 Rhizoma Design and Research Lab launched a Call for Postcards, inviting architects, designers, artists, and activists to reflect upon the paradigm shift happening in our cities, observing and documenting the changing everyday praxis of inhabiting public space as well as envisioning its future, capturing those reflections and ideas in a Postcard.In a time when access to public space was restricted and art in public was paused, the call explored the role of a virtual space for the active creation, sharing, and fruition of public artworks. The call led to a virtual and physical exhibition titled Back to the Future of Public Space: Postcards from 2...

ArchNet-IJAR, Nov 21, 2022

The following research, divided into four deliverables (“Explication of Tacit Knowledge” Delivera... more The following research, divided into four deliverables (“Explication of Tacit Knowledge” Deliverable 9 – Collection of Data/ “Explication of Tacit Knowledge” Deliverable 10 – Interpretation / ”Refinement and Explication of Methods” Deliverable 11 – Collection of Data /” Refinement and Explication of Methods” Deliverable 11b – Interpretation), is the result of a year of studying the role of Tacit Knowledge and the relevance of methods in practice-based research. The study drew on the reflections and research undertaken by a group of practice-based PhD candidates from different creative disciplines, such as architecture, landscape architecture, design and visual art, coming from Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Candidates and authors of the research were part of a network of practitioners created by the ADAPT-r ITN Project (www.adapt-r.eu). Seven European institutions participated for three years in this project: Glasgow School of Art, RMIT Europe, Estonian Academy of Arts, Aarhus S...

REAL CORP 2013: Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society: Planning Times - You better keep planning or you get in deep water, for the cities they are a-changin’..., 2013

Conference proceedings : Aldo Rossi, perspectives from the world : theory, teaching, design & legacy, 2020

Keeping up with technologies to make healthy places : Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference Places and Technologies 2015, 2015

Density, as an urban variable, is a quantitative parameter that affects both architecture and lif... more Density, as an urban variable, is a quantitative parameter that affects both architecture and life quality, i.e., the quality of life of the inhabitants of the architecture. In this research the concept of density is extended to a three-fold meaning: density of buildings (with particular attention to density interpretation in terms of surface: FAR – floor area ratio), density of encounter (whose values are randomness and closeness), and density of uses (differentiation of activities and functions).

Il Poligrafo Casa Editrice srl, 2020

The essay explores elements of the analogy between Rossi’s "A Scientific Autobiography&a... more The essay explores elements of the analogy between Rossi’s "A Scientific Autobiography" and PhD training models in design disciplines, through the trajectories of a number of creative practitioners that have undertaken a practice-based doctoral programme. Those practitioners have been selected as case studies according to previous research in the field of Creative Practice Research conducted by the authors. Three thematic fields surfacing from the authors’ new reading of Rossi’s Autobiography (spatial experiences, time, and reiterations) have guided the exploration. These recurrences have been adopted to identify connections, comparisons, and differences among the work and trajectories of the creative practitioners, highlighting relevant epistemological and methodological insights shared between them and Rossi’s thought.

This methodology brings together technicians and inhabitants' delegates, both during the feas... more This methodology brings together technicians and inhabitants' delegates, both during the feasibility study and during seminars where various solutions are presented and selected and local politicians, dwellers and students are invited. The identified design proposals, concerning roofing, facades and courtyards, are environmentally conscious and of passive solar type; they focus on the use of natural materials (green roofs and walls, permeable paving) and renewable energies (photovoltaic and geothermal). The central idea of these proposals is the economical and technical feasibility of the interventions. The whole process, aimed at defining shared targets, spawning initiatives that contribute both to increase the civic sense and to improve life and health conditions, create the preconditions for a real sustainability of the district.

The Department of Architecture of Roma Tre University and Piattaforma Testaccio, a group of inhab... more The Department of Architecture of Roma Tre University and Piattaforma Testaccio, a group of inhabitant and stakeholder associations, both based in the same district: Testaccio, cooperate since 2013 in order to enhance its urban environment and quality of life. The main issue of this collaboration has been a study on the possibility of implementing a prescriptive tool applicable in residential areas: the "Environmental Island", aimed at improving both sustainability and liveability of urban spaces. The students of the course "City & Environment", together with their teaching staff, were called to identify problems and propose solutions, considering also the inhabitants' expectations presented by the associations. It is important to underline that in this case the designers are also users, frequenting daily the area. Testaccio is a historical district characterized by an elderly population, due both to the aging phenomenon and the permanence of the early famili...

ZARCH

The paper explores the concept of ‘listening to unheard voices’ in the urban environment as a des... more The paper explores the concept of ‘listening to unheard voices’ in the urban environment as a design intention and strategy that contributes to an inclusive and alternative approach to urban public space, considering and promoting the imperatives of caring that such space should deliver to the city and its inhabitants. The ideas discussed in the paper find their background in the research on the concept of care in feminist urbanism and feminist studies in general, and specifically in relation to the model of the Caring City, promoting a city that places care at its centre, and aims to include a wider selection of citizens in the construction of the public good. Through the analysis of two case studies of public spaces designed by solo-women architecture practices, this paper identifies an alternative relational paradigm which gives space to unheard voices in the urban environment through processes of inclusion and participation. The two cases, Plaça d'en Baró in Santa Coloma de ...

The Journal of Public Space

ArchNet-IJAR, Nov 21, 2022

Conference proceedings : Aldo Rossi, perspectives from the world : theory, teaching, design & legacy, 2020

Keeping up with technologies to make healthy places : Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference Places and Technologies 2015, 2015

Il Poligrafo Casa Editrice srl, 2020

ZARCH

THE PUBLIC ROLE OF DESIGN Barcelona ADAPT-r Day 5 July 2016 RMIT Europe, Carrer de Minerva 2, 080... more THE PUBLIC ROLE OF DESIGN
Barcelona ADAPT-r Day
5 July 2016
RMIT Europe, Carrer de Minerva 2, 08006 Barcelona
@ 14.00

The Adapt-r Day aims to offer insights into the public voices and roles of practitioners across Europe, revealing the diversity of practices and multiple voices in the contemporary city.
The public voice is the medium used by practitioners to express and reveal their specificity, role, and positioning within society. It is an authentic singular voice and the language the practitioners use to communicate and articulate their tacit knowledge.
Such a voice resonates in different dimensions of practice: the design process itself, the way of engaging with and guiding transformation processes, and the way of bringing about social changes.
Certain questions arise in relation to the topic:
What is the role of the creative practitioner within the society?
What are the related responsibilities?
How is the creative practitioner’s role perceived and recognized within the public realm?
Why is it important for practitioners to reflect on their public role?
Speakers from the ADAPT-r Program and professional and academic field will be invited to contribute to the ADAPT-r Day by presenting their own work, and giving insights into their research and professional path.
ADAPT-r fellows will be invited to focus their presentations on how the PhD process is helping them in discovering their public voice and how this process is affecting their ways of acting in the public realm.
www.adapt-r.eu / www.rmit.edu.au

The Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture is developing a doctoral programme in Archit... more The Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture is developing a doctoral programme in Architecture and Urban Planning in cooperation with a network of international architecture schools, as partner of ADAPT-r project.
The core feature of the methodological model offered by ADAPT-r and the Estonian Academy of Arts practice-led PhD program is that new knowledge is developed by reflection on, through and for creative practice.
The upcoming ADAPT-r Day aims to give an insight into practitioners' diverse methodologies in conducting their PhDs, related challenges and discoveries.
"Creative Practice = Research Methods" urges the presenters to reveal how the practice methods are the same as (not differ from) research methods. What are the key elements of creative practice research methods? Speakers will contribute to the discussion by presenting their own observations and heuristic.
Contributions by both ADAPT-r fellows and the Faculty's doctoral candidates aim to trigger debate with local practitioners, students and candidates from other fields (arts, design, technology, engineering, social sciences and humanities in general, etc).
ADAPT-r (acronym for Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training-Research) is an ITN Initial Training Network funded within the FP7 Marie Curie Program. ADAPT-r is a network of seven academic institutions, but it engages also with design studios. The project includes 40 fellowships, seven training conferences, a major research conference, a final exhibition, five key books, and a website providing public access to research and events. The PhD supported by the ADAPT-r project is structured through three years of research, and is organised in six Practice Research Symposia (two per year, held in Ghent and in Barcelona), namely the PRS, in which the practitioners are invited to present their research and submit it to public consideration.

12.00
Greetings by Toomas Tammis and Veronika Valk
Estonian Academy of Arts + ADAPT-r

12.30
Introduction to the ADAPT-r Day
"ADAPT-r Creative Practice Research Methods:
the PhD Journey"
Alice Buoli / Estonian Academy of Arts
Cecilia De Marinis / RMIT Barcelona
Dorotea Ottaviani / Glasgow School of Art

13.00
"The act or process of negotiating: a dialogue to craft outcomes"
Michael Corr
(Place Belfast / ADAPT-r @ Estonian Academy of Arts)

13.30
"A Public Architect"
Toomas Paaver
(PAIK Arhitektid / Estonian Academy of Arts)

14.00 - 14.30
Light lunch

14.30
"The Practice of Theory-for-Practice: Towards the Toolbox of Dynamic Contextualism"
Eik Hermann
(Estonian Academy of Arts)

15.00
"With or without tiger – the practice and (or) research"
Jaan Tiidemann
(Ninja Studio / Estonian Academy of Arts)

15.30
"b(I/O)logic. On the relevance of bio-computation in Architecture and Urban Design"
Claudia Pasquero
(ecoLogicStudio / ADAPT-r @ Estonian Academy of Arts)

16.00
Roundtable / panel discussion

http://www.artun.ee/en/creative-practice-research-methods-tallinn-adapt-r-day-7-04

Why is it important that creative practitioners reflect on and unveil their modes of practice&res... more Why is it important that creative practitioners reflect on and unveil their modes of practice&research?
The call for Postcards aims to challenge creative practitioners to explore their practice by means of the Scientific Autobiography.

Selected contributions will be exhibit from the 22nd of November to the 18th of December 2016 during the “ADAPT-r Final Exhibition” at Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London (www.p3exhibitions.com)

http://callforpostcards.tumblr.com
www.adaptr.eu

In: Bovati, M., Caja, M., Landsberger, M., Lorenzi, A. (a cura di), Aldo Rossi. Perspectives From The World. Il Poligrafo casa editrice, Padova, pp. 156-167, 2020

The essay explores elements of the analogy between Rossi’s "A Scientific Autobiography" and PhD t... more The essay explores elements of the analogy between Rossi’s "A Scientific Autobiography" and PhD training models in design disciplines, through the trajectories of a number of creative practitioners that have undertaken a practice-based doctoral programme. Those practitioners have been selected as case studies according to previous research in the field of Creative Practice Research conducted by the authors.
Three thematic fields surfacing from the authors’ new reading of Rossi’s Autobiography (spatial experiences, time, and reiterations) have guided the exploration. These recurrences have been adopted to identify connections, comparisons, and differences among the work and trajectories of the creative practitioners, highlighting relevant epistemological and methodological insights shared between them and Rossi’s thought.