Place and people / 09
Explorations into urbanity

Milano, Italy
Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ampère, 2, MM 2 Piola / tram n. 23, 11

“There is still a false notion that simply by mixing up different functions or putting different people in the same place they will begin to interact. But the question of how we really get communities to recognise, accept and interact with one anther is ultimately one that requires visual thinking. It is a design issue.” | Richard Sennett, 2007

What are the conditions that regulate social and spatial organization in the contemporary city? What are the elements that produce (or conversely … prevent) the possible co-presence of a diverse and mixed population in urban areas? What are the arguments for public policies promoting the recombination of people and places as an escape from urban decay? Are urban projects (design and public policies) able to produce conditions for frequent and various uses? Is the contemporary city still the space for encounters (and conflicts)? Urbanity and mix of people/uses seem to be more and more valued in normative terms, objectives (if not prescription) of new urban policies, development plans and design intentions. Though, urban development is regulated by codes, cultures and planning instruments - as well as by market conditions - that are consuming and erasing this mix (a long-term side effect of urban, cultural, and social development in time). The seminars will address detecting, recognizing and describing devices at work to regulate the connections between people and places, urban space and its uses, and supporting a critical reflection on normative and design attitudes. 

• Venerdì 17 Aprile, 14.30, aula G1, Marco Cremaschi, Dipartimento di Studi Urbani, Università di Roma Tre
Cities without citizens, Discussants: Francesco Chiodelli, Valentina Malaspina, Paola Celario

• Venerdì, 24 Aprile, 14.30, aula G1, Alessandro Coppola, John Hopkins University, Baltimore + Dipartimento di Studi Urbani, Università di Roma Tre
Markets without communities? Neighbourhood politics in Baltimore, Discussants: Lavinia Bifulco, Ilija Gubic, Carolina Pacchi, Silvia Russo

• Martedì, 28 Aprile, 14.30, aula A Wolfgang Gerlich, Plansinn, Vienna / www.plansinn.at
Public action and the city. Is Vienna different?, Discussant: Hossein Maroofi

• Martedì, 12 Maggio, 14.30, aula A Ota de Leonardis, Dip. di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Milano Bicocca / www.laboratorio-suigeneris.net
Segregations, Discussants: Carl-Henrick Barnekon, Elisa Devecchi, Anna Todros

• Martedì 19 Maggio, 14.30, aula A Valerie Werner, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago / www.uic.edu/cuppa
Ethnicity and Race shaping Chicago, Discussants: Paola Briata, Nowzar Hedayati, Brigida Proto

• Martedì, 26 Maggio, 14.30, aula A Claudio Coletta, Francesco Gabbi, Giovanna Sonda, IRSRS Trento / www.progettopenelope.net
Penelope. The emerging patterns of urban texture, Discussants: Paola Savoldi, Rossana Torri, Secil Zor

• Venerdì, 29 Maggio, 14.30, aula G1 Ingrid Breckner, HafenCity University Hamburg / www.hcu.hamburg.de
Contemporary Housing Landscapes, Discussants: Maria Clara Restrepo, Mohammad Saeidimadani, Varsha Soni

• Martedì 9 Giugno, 14.30, aula A Joerg Ploeger, London School of Economics + ILS Dortmund / http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/ www.ils-forschung.de
What's your frequency? Fine-tuning responses to urban crisis, Discussants: Davide Ponzini, Francesco Curci

• Venerdì, 12 Giugno, 14.30 aula G1 Margrit Hugentobler, ETH Zurich / www.arch.ethz.ch/wohnforum
Affordable housing in Zurich?!?, Discussants: Daniel Löwgren, Lina Scavuzzo, Antara Sengupta, Sk. Kabir Ahmed

• Venerdì, 19 Giugno, 14.30, aula G1 Carmen Roll, ASS1, Azienda Servizi Sanitari Triestina / www.exclusion.net
’We go where the people live’. Health services in Trieste, Discussants: Moataz Faissal, Olga Labetzkaya, Raffaele Monteleone


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