PROFESSIONAL HYBRIDIZATION [micro-online-lecture]

Today at 2.30 PM (Milan Time), just before flying from Madrid to Paris, I will join the online event for the presentation of the book “Urban Hybridization” (F. Zanni – editor) with a multiple video-conference via Google hangout.

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DESIGNING SPACE FOR EMERGENCE IS AN EMERGENCY

I am an architect and in January I started limiting my work activity to 3 hours per day because I wanted to spend my time thinking about space instead of designing it. I have been thinking about space for 8 month now and I’ve understood why I love space more than building.

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network design philosophy behind dreamhamar process

As architects regarding the city as a complex and multi-layered phenomenon, during the past years we have been facing deep change in the way we relate to urban issues. We have learned – by doing – that knowledge and creation are becoming hybrid and diffused phenomenons, transforming traditional, closed and fixed structures, into open and flexible network structures. The image above is a visualization of dreamhamar process based on an image by Ecosistema Urbano and a network visualization by Nancy White.

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