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ABSTRACT This work is about utopia and non-place, separating the city of his physical content, an... more ABSTRACT This work is about utopia and non-place, separating the city of his physical content, and considering it as the sum of the tracks that constitute the human reality, where the distance between the constructed world and the imagined world is diluted. For it, the Utopias of different authors will be crossed, convinced that this reading can add a particular precision in the search of agreements on the space of the city, opening the possibility of different interpretations and definitions of the interaction’s modalities with it. It will try to investigate, beyond the critiques and the projects -political, religious, social-, between the arguments that cross, not only refer to the architectural discipline, but to all the areas of the knowledge, as human action that not only they describe the world, but it changes it - determining what it describes-. Nevertheless, this is not a study on the Utopias, but on the point between the utopia and the reality, understood from the beginning of place and non-place in which there is placed our experience of being in the world. Media spaces, non-places, virtual spaces or cyberspaces, represent today the capacity of the man to dream and create: the question is on the city - and the network of relations that constitute it-, and on the precariousness of the processes that have generated it. And these new spaces open the possibility of a complementary vision that tries to reflect the complexity of the different interpretations of the city, where the city offers the strategies in order that these could be superposed, not as material, but intellectual device.

Nel corso del XX secolo l'architettura moderna si è articolata in speciici centri di propulsi... more Nel corso del XX secolo l'architettura moderna si è articolata in speciici centri di propulsione, revisione, critica. Il caso di Milano è emblematico: Terragni e il Razionalismo, la Ricostruzione (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganò ecc.), la Tendenza di Rossi, il design, no alle ricerche attuali. MCM traccia questa storia da molteplici punti di vista sull'architettura, il design, la città e il paesaggio. MCM-Milano capitale del Moderno, a cura di Lorenzo Degli Esposti, è composto da testi e immagini di oltre 300 autori europei e americani di tre generazioni, coinvolti nelle attività del Padiglione Architettura di Expo Belle Arti di Vittorio Sgarbi, programma di Regione Lombardia in collaborazione con la Triennale di Milano ospitato nel Grattacielo Pirelli durante l'Expo 2015. I contributi indagano la relazione tra l'architettura moderna, la città di Milano (Razionalismo, Ricostruzione, Tendenza, Radical Design, no alle ricerche attuali) e l'idea di metropoli, tra ope...

Weakcity. Methodological Scheme

Conference at Grattacielo Pirelli Padiglione Architettura 29 October 2015

"The research of Weakcity starts from the analysis of the word weak and, thought its factorizatio... more "The research of Weakcity starts from the analysis of the word weak and, thought its factorization and transposition, aims to delineate a theoretical-practical approach for a renovated urban design.
The purpose of the research is to experiment with how, inside the “construction” of the contemporary landscape, a weak approach is able to defy the object/architectonic event and established methodologies of urban studies, by going beyond the designative
value of architecture.
Moreover, through a weak language, in a weak context, with recycled and innovative materials, the topic identifies “decoration” as able to transform urban scenarios, to privilege relational and open spaces over built ones.
In this direction, the notion of ecology and of an ecological system, as intended by Landscape Urbanism, becomes the disciplinary infrastructure of the method, in which ecology is technonature, or an evolution of nature in artificial terms, by focusing on the role of transdisciplinarity as crucial in transforming codes and instruments of urban design."

Le fobie, le ossessioni e le distrazioni di un grande architetto, Rem Koolhaas, che ha lavorato c... more Le fobie, le ossessioni e le distrazioni di un grande architetto, Rem Koolhaas, che ha lavorato con squadre di studenti e professori, con uno sguardo particolare alla situazione italiana. Un padiglione italiano più elaborato e intenso del solito, con un curatore, Cino Zucchi, che non ha risparmiato energie producendo almeno tre mostre in una, con risultati che meritano di sopravvivere alla temporalità dell’evento Biennale. E poi i commissari dei paesi che, di fronte alla sfida di raccontare cent’anni di modernità, hanno inventato mostre molto più interessanti e provocatorie del consueto.

0-n/3_WeakStragey for In-Formality_ Andrea Benzi ed., Jul 2014

"0-n Booklet of researches inside Weakness Theory Director and Coordinator: Elisa Cristiana C... more "0-n
Booklet of researches inside Weakness Theory
Director and Coordinator: Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo "
Maggioli Publisher

0-n/2_Hologramatic Territories_ Ecological Strategies in West Bank_Mirko Andolina ed., 2014

0-n Booklet of researches inside Weakness Theory Director and Coordinator: Elisa Cristiana Catt... more 0-n
Booklet of researches inside Weakness Theory
Director and Coordinator: Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo
Maggioli Publisher

0-n/1_ A Swarming City_Patterns of Interferece_ Giacomo Ardesio, 2014

0-n Booklet of researches inside Weakness Theory Director and Coordinator: Elisa Cristiana Ca... more 0-n
Booklet of researches inside Weakness Theory
Director and Coordinator: Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo
Maggioli Publisher

Loaded Void. City Theory since 1956_Falling Modernism, Arising Landscape Urbanism, Sep 2015

"Il nostro programma è transitorio, viene enunciato, le nostre situazioni saranno senza avvenire,... more "Il nostro programma è transitorio, viene enunciato, le nostre situazioni saranno senza avvenire, luoghi di passaggio" "La prassi del perdersi e la scelta degli incontri, il senso dell'incompiuto e dell'effimero, la passione per la velocità trasporta al livello della mente, il rivenire e il dimenticare, sono fra gli elementi di un'etica della deriva che abbiamo già cominciato a praticare nella povertà delle nostre città.

Weakcity. Methodological Scheme

Conference at Grattacielo Pirelli Padiglione Architettura 29 October 2015

0-n/3_WeakStragey for In-Formality_ Andrea Benzi ed., Jul 2014

0-n/2_Hologramatic Territories_ Ecological Strategies in West Bank_Mirko Andolina ed., 2014

0-n/1_ A Swarming City_Patterns of Interferece_ Giacomo Ardesio, 2014

Loaded Void. City Theory since 1956_Falling Modernism, Arising Landscape Urbanism, Sep 2015

curator: Lorenzo Degli Esposti MCM_Milano Capital of the Modern _Grattacielo Pirelli - Triennale ... more curator: Lorenzo Degli Esposti
MCM_Milano Capital of the Modern _Grattacielo Pirelli - Triennale di Milano

curator: Lorenzo Degli Esposti

Curator: Lorenzo Degli Esposti Regione Lombardia - Triennale di Milano

Georgy Kepes, the founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, inaugurated in 1947 a new wa... more Georgy Kepes, the founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, inaugurated in 1947 a new way of thinking urban space as hologram of landscape.
The workshop reactivates this line of research, through an interpretation of the landscape as a new experiment in urban disciplines, able to replace the ascertained statutes of architecture and urban design.

The attempt of the workshop is to propose a renewal of our discipline that arises primarily from a conceptual experiment and afterward as a formal result. So that an elemental process in art and science (to chose an ideal natural territory, to conceptualize it and to project) will result in a new spatial territory.

The student will be called to define a new taxonomy of design based on Nature, leading to a non-real city, but to a place of re-definition of the fundamental codes of architectural culture, its hierarchies and its practices.
In particular, he will be called to build a micro and heterotrophic microcosm - an hologram - that represents a new idea of the city as "Primitive Nature”: as well as in the paintings of Rousseau and in Borges’s thought, Nature, its bestiary, its codes, is proposed as a new archeology of language and of its role, experiencing new projectual categories that undermine the compositional language in the strict sense.

The aim of the workshop is to build 30 experiments in vitro, 30 "Genetic Gardens" definable as landscape islands within a generic urban context, between art and science.

The game and the paradox will be the project's tools.

Prato Factories Nature. The New Operative Plan, 2019

The multiplicity of procedures and strategies that have been generated in recent years in Prato, ... more The multiplicity of procedures and strategies that have been generated in recent years in Prato, principally through the recent Operative Plan, is evidence of a phenomenon that deserves to be observed and studied.
The case of Prato, through its original vision of the issue of the environment, its essential role when it comes to transformation and reuse, and its impressive participative and communicative way of proceeding, has highlighted a new way of thinking about urban planning, outlining a new theoretical/applicative approach for the contemporary city.
Inscribable in the disciplinary parenthesis of Landscape Urbanism, the Operative Plan indeed highlights specific methodological originality, articulated through the corpus of the objectives and strategies expressed, framed principally through a transdisciplinary and innovative lens: an exportable model of a new kind of planning that is rooted in the most evolved form of urban metabolism.
Already site of urban experimentation par excellence inspired by its structure as a “factory city” - among these, the well-known No-Stop City and the Structural Plan by Bernardo Secchi (1993-1996) - the New Operative Plan confirms Prato as an urban laboratory, through two strategies: The technology of Nature and the Project as Hologram that contains in themselves an idea of the city as a whole.
Through the solid experience and the decisions made by the Planning Office – which developed the project from the Operative Plan – and specific consultancies – including that of Stefano Mancuso on Green Benefits and Stefano Boeri on Urban Forestry – Prato, therefore, formulates a city that is wholly “resilient” even in its “development,” and through ecology responds to the global challenges of climate change but also to the local challenges of residents’ well-being, as required by the Pact of Amsterdam and the European Agenda.
Through the ecological figure, the Plan is articulated like a declassification of classical planning; like an “inversion” of the urbanistic process, in which the specific projects become holograms that contain in themselves an idea of the city as a whole, becoming the engines of its transformation.

Andrea Branzi - Il progetto nell'epoca della relatività

Andrea Branzi - The Project in the Age of Relativity

El libro Ecologías Emergentes nace en el contexto del homónimo concurso internacional, organiza... more El libro Ecologías Emergentes nace en el contexto del homónimo concurso internacional, organizado en Santiago por el Centro de Ecología, Paisaje y Urbanismo del DesignLab de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, en el que se invitó a imaginar paisajes experimentales alrededor de Santiago, entre Maipú y el sitio prioritario de conservación ecológica El Roble.
Las temáticas planteadas y las propuestas presentadas, ofrecen la oportunidad de iniciar un debate más amplio sobre
el diseño urbano y el paisaje, sobre las herramientas que disponemos y los objetivos para mejorar la calidad de la ciudad contemporánea: ¿Cómo incluir actividades productivas sostenibles en nuestros espacios cotidianos? ¿Es posible preservar los recursos ambientales, perfeccionarlos a lo largo del tiempo y dar forma a las ecologías que surgen en el territorio?
Los ensayos de destacados académicos internacionales y los proyectos ganadores del concurso publicados en este libro intentan cuestionar estos interrogantes.

“This book is like an assemblage of experimental scientific results. A collection of outcomes of ... more “This book is like an assemblage of experimental scientific results. A collection of outcomes of a procedure achieved in vitro during the intensive course of Landscape Design I taught at the Politecnico di Milano in the 2015-2016 academic year.
The attempt has been to propose a renewal of the discipline that arises primarily from a conceptual experiment, and afterward as a formal result. So that an elemental process in science (observation of the object, scanning it in the laboratory, processing the outcome of the scan) will result in a new spatial modeling”.
Elisa C. Cattaneo