Showing posts with label lectures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lectures. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 July 2012

The Metacity

A conceptual framework for integrating ecology and urban design

Brian McGrath, S. T. A. Pickett


Strategies for synergism

A conceptual toolkit for planners and designers.
A guiding model for flows and urban development.

S. P. Tjallingii
J. F. Jonkhof

Thursday, 5 July 2012

Public space and inclusion

lecture by Elena Ostanel (SSIIM Unesco Chair)

how the public space is perceived and used by different populations
maps by Elena Ostanel with Gaia Accardo and Cristina Catalanotti

Padova: station, corso del popolo, giardini dell'arena

 Mestre: piazza Ferretto, piazza Barche, Candiani

 Marghera: piazza Sant'Antonio, piazza del mercato, piazzale del Municipio, piazzale della Concordia

Towards the "No Auto"


Lecture by D. Chang and L. Fabian
Team Work: D.Chang, L.Fabian, B.Secchi, P.Viganò



Recycling Transport Networks. From Transit node to urban place.

Lecture by Joan Moreno Sanz -UPC Barcelona

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

100% Re-cycling: network, ground and objects

Lecture by Chiara Cavalieri

Mid-Size Utopia -best of both worlds-

Lecture by Daan Zanbelt, TU Delft

Viaggio in Italia. A survey of the last twenty years urban changes.

Lecture by Monica Bianchettin Del Grano

Territories of recycling. Life cycles, objects, networks

Lecture by Irene Guida

This lecture is a journey through territories of recycling.

Students of the 2011 Collaborative Design Studio, held by Alberto Ferlenga (Architectural Design), Chiara Ferro (Consarvation), Chiara Tessarolo (Technology), and Paola Viganò (Urban Design), explored a transect in Veneto Region, trying to identify objects to recycle, and proposing for each object a prototypical solution. Territory and landscape were considered as objects of recycling, too.

As Paola Viganò teaching team, we invited the students to reflect upon three main different kind of Recycling, 100% Recycling, Death and Life, Waste Recycling.

What emerged is an interesting relationship between different networks and different kind of life cycle and recycling, a relationship between porosity and easiness in recycling, and new landscapes of recycling.


Tuesday, 3 July 2012

the needs of local business area in provine of Padua

Lecture by Steve Bisson

K.I.T. Padua
Steve Bisson (editor)
A survey by Confindustria Padua and Camera di Commercio of Padua on the state and needs of the local businesses in the province of Padua.
Confindustria of Padua publisher, Padua 2007

A way to represent the needs of local businesses in the province of Padua. A survey that shows a widespread impatience with the conditions of productive settlements. Rejecting the stereotype of gray and marginal workplace, the volume highlights the need for a shared quality of development


Changes in energy consumes and distributed production. Recycling and energy efficiency in buildings.

lecture by Edorado Zanchini, deputy president of Legambiente

progetto SPRINT

lecture by Steve Bisson

research on the relationship between the productive system and the territory in the province of Vicenza. Edited by Barnaba Seraglio, Alessandra Meneghetti and Steve Bisson


Life Cycle Assessment

Lecture by Tommy Meduri

How to combine LCA with urban planning and building criteria?

Monday, 2 July 2012

the 5th life of Stiemerbeek Valley

lecture by Chrsitian Nolf,
Architect and Urban Designer,
Research Group OSA, ASRO,
KU Leuven Research Group Arck, UHasselt


The 5th life of Stiemerbeek, Genk Belgium

The presentation focuses on the valley of the Stiemerbeek, a 16 km long creek crossing the highly and dispersedly urbanized area of Genk-Diepenbeek in Flanders, Belgium. Once at the heart of the region, the valley got neglected and abused during the 20th century. It got profoundly marked by successive waves of industrial and urban development. Today, however, the potential of the valley for recreational, ecological and (alternative) water management functions is being reconsidered. The challenge resides in a reappropriation of the landscape features inherited from the past to fullfil these new functions.

Sustainable Energy Landscapes

Lecture by Sven Stremke,
PhD, Assistent Professor in Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University, The Netherland