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Paola Viganò: Designing for new climates
IG Architektur
Gumpendorfer Straße 63b
1060 Wien
Österreich
The talk addresses space and its project in the contemporary urban/climatic condition. In the transition occurring, new tools and ideas are needed and the traditional ones are there to be questioned. On the basis of a set of recent design experiences, the future of the city and its space will be discussed.
In the current discourse on climate and urbanization, Paola Viganò takes a central position that calls for a radical shift in the conceptual framing, the methodologies, as well as in the concrete proposals regarding how to approach the current challenges facing cities. She and Bernardo Secchi have authored a series of studies and projects that investigate urban development, particularly from a territorial perspective, and imagine large-scale scenarios for Europe’s metropolitan areas. Concepts such as the Horizontal Metropolis or the Reverse City describe contemporary landscapes of diffuse urbanity beyond any centre–periphery dualism, show the urgency for a different urban reasoning, and call for a renewal in the social, economic, and ecological dimension of the urban territory.
Text: Paola Viganò / Michael Klein
Paola Viganò is an architect and urbanist based in Milan; she is a professor of urbanism at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and of urban theory and urban design at the EPFL in Lausanne.