INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
Public spaces and services
in changing urban spaces

Milan, Italy
DAStU - Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
Politecnico di Milano
Spazio Aperto Nave, via Bonardi 9
Room S01 - Aula De Donato, Politecnico di Milano


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MAIN THEME
The seminar is aimed at reflecting about contemporary changing features of “public” spaces and public services in the urban environment. We need to find new paradigms for the interpretation of the rise of spaces (open spaces and built environment) which are no longer clearly definable as “public”, related to retail, cultural or leisure activities, workplaces, coffee houses, nodes of related public transport. Reasoning about their status, accessibility in space, in time and in relation to ICTs, about mixed uses and users and about the disappearance of the traditional functionalist divisions between housing, work and leisure time is necessary to change our approach as planners and designers and to update the traditional governance structures.

PROGRAMME
The seminar is programmed to host two activities:

MONDAY APRIL 8th | WORKSHOP
Discussion about recent redevelopment projects which have significantly changed the patterns and features of the network of public spaces in Milan, following a visit with the invited hosts and introduced by some presentations realized by two research Laboratories of DAStU.

Venue: Spazio Aperto Nave, DAStU - Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Nave Building

• 9.30 am - 1.30 pm
'Portello' and 'Porta Nuova' | Visit at the redevelopment sites
• 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Comments and discussion on visited urban projects in Milano 
Speakers:
Matthew Carmona | Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Kimmo Lapintie | School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University
Andrea Arcidiacono, Eugenio Morello, Barbara E.A. Piga | Politecnico di Milano
Corinna Morandi | Politecnico di Milano 

TUESDAY APRIL 9th | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 
Presentation of the recent developments in the research of prominent scholars in the field of public spaces analysis and design.

Venue: Room S01 - Aula De Donato, School of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano

• 9.30 am -10.00 am
Corinna Morandi | Politecnico di Milano
'Changing urban spaces'
• 10.00 am -11.00 am 
Matthew Carmona | Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
'Capital Spaces: the multiple complex public spaces of a global city'
• 11.00 am | Coffee break
• 11.15 am -12.15 pm
Kimmo Lapintie | School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University
'City, Work and Life. Places and Activities in the metropolitan city'
• 12.15 pm -1.15 pm | Panel discussion
Ada Lucia De Cesaris | Deputy Major and Councillor for Urban Planning of the City of Milan
Pier Carlo Palermo | Politecnico di Milano
Gabriele Pasqui | Politecnico di Milano 


FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
Tel: +39.02.2399.5404 
Mobile: +39.347.96.08.959
Email: andrea.arcidiacono@polimi.it
Email: corinna.morandi@polimi.it