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Il Territorio senza qualità. Sovradeterminazioni narrative e possibilità del progetto nel caso di Carrara

The thesis deals with the case of Carrara providing a reflection on both its understanding and the possibilities of imagining a project. The entry-key is not an original hypothesis: the territory is the outcome of the actions and intentions of time and of human history. In other words, the territory is overdetermined by its own construction process. Just as in Musil’s novel, there is no possibility of redefining the self by confronting with an overwhelming socio-cultural hyperdetermination; in the same way, also the territory, according to this perspective, copes with a radical impossibility for its future, since that spatial and temporal over-determination is so vast and profound as to cancel out its very rich qualities. This is, in particular, the hypothesis moved by this work: the Carrara extraction phenomenon can be read as a constant and continuous hyper-determination that reduces the territory to an extraction-machine.

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Infra-Nature. Nuovi equilibri tra acqua e insediamento

This thesis explores part of the Veneto region, an extreme case in which natural environment and anthropogenic dynamics are inextricably intertwined. On one hand there is the lagoon, a heterogeneous ecosystem regulated by fragile balances; on the other the Città diffusa, a contemporary settlement model based on isotropy, porosity and continuity. The hypothesis of the research is that these spatial figures are not simply juxtaposed, but may have significant reciprocal relationships. The analysis is carried out in an historical period in which climate change can only be the track to observe, without the presumption and useful competencies to indicate the changes it might cause in the territory.

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San Patrignano: un frammento della Città Adriatica

The thesis addresses an issue concerning the presence of communities that are configured as closed realities on the territory. Perhaps the most obvious archetype refers to therapeutic communities. Among these, perhaps the most emblematic story is that of the San Patrignano community, the largest in Europe, founded in 1978 in the municipality of Coriano, 11 km from Rimini. It is a story of the 1970s and 1980s, well set in a situation in the country marked by extremely harsh conflicts in civil society and the spread of drugs among the young population. The history of San Patrignano is emblematic not only in terms of numbers: 26,000 young people taken in over 40 years of history, but also in terms of the controversies, conflicts, and contrasts that have accompanied its path, radically dividing public opinion.

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Incomplete city 2

Incomplete City 2 è un esercizio didattico che esplora un territorio domestico, molto presente nell’immaginario comune. Una città costituita da sequenze parallele fatte di acqua, spiagge urbane, litorali, infrastrutture, residenze e attrezzature, campi agricoli, piastre industriali, spazi aperti. Segnata da fragilità ambientali, insediative, oltre che sociali. Una città entro una grande struttura territoriale “a pettine”, in cui le penetranti vallive sono generate da fiumi che sfociano nell’Adriatico. Una struttura chiara, elementare. Pier Vittorio Tondelli negli anni ‘80 parlava di un bordo di strass. Negli anni ‘90 era la città felice di Olivo Barbieri e Pippo Ciorra.

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Lifelines. Politica, etica ed economia affettiva dell’abitare

In una fase come quella che stiamo vivendo, al convergere di una radicale crisi sanitaria con una altrettanto radicale crisi ecologica, non si può tornare ad indagare l’abitare secondo traiettorie parziali che pure hanno dato in passato buoni esiti. Sia quando, occupandosi della cosiddetta città dispersa, hanno indagato la coerenza e la regolarità di territori ferocemente individualisti. Sia quando, occupandosi dell’abitare condiviso, hanno esplorato una mitografia antica e contemporanea, fatta di frugalità, vicinanza, reciprocità.

Cosa definisce oggi l’abitare entro la pluralità di condizioni, geografie e politiche che lo connota? La domanda impone un’ascesa in generalità del discorso e una rottura della cornice fornita da indagini consolidate.

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Incomplete city

L’Atelier di Progettazione Urbana “Incomplete City” esplora la città adriatica, un territorio domestico – molto presente nell’immaginario comune – fortemente provato da crisi che si sono susseguite in modo ricorrente, fino all’ultima, sanitaria nel 2020.

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Abitare l’opacità. Gli spazi rurali di Borgo Mezzanone

This thesis investigates one of the main sites of crisis and questions in the debate of the Italian rural space.  Borgo Mezzanone is an extreme case study: a territory composed of an overlapping of regular traces dating back to the periods of the fascist land reclamation in the 1930s, the historical village and one of the largest informal settlements in Puglia. Here the intensity of the migrants’ presence raises the question of the relationship between rurality, ethnicity and racial conflict. The objectives of the study can be identified on two partially overlapping levels. The first concerns the spatial effects produced by the extractive economic dynamics affecting the territory. The second, the multiple forms of the plot between survival and living in a situation of great vulnerability.

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Tra le pieghe di Taranto

The thesis analyzes the dynamics of a controversial reality such as that of Taranto, in which spatial issues are built in concearning the environmental problems that the steel industry imposes on the territory.The city is now a significant place on which various urban and political projects are moving to unlock a consolidated status with new planning actions.The approach to this territory with design tools, involves a difficulty in managing those issues that exceed the urban decay and the approximate ground design, which involves the human body and how it intercepts and inhabits the space.In this vulnerable relationship between the body and the space, it interrupts the factory, which leads new relationships to be faced in order to dimension and spatialize the environmental problem.

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Agenda tropicale. Synthesis of urban practices for climate coexistence in Turin

Agenda Tropicale is a synthesis of practices related to urban space, a reflection that closely associates the city and the climatic agents.
The research moves beyond an anthropocenic and anthropocentric approach, not focusing entirely on a mere scientific aspect, based on technicalities and technologies, but aiming toward a dialogue with other possible interlocutors.
Agenda Tropicale investigates which spaces in the city can be redesigned and transformed into supports and polarities able to hold contemporary practices.

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Mass Production

L’utopia fordista ha lasciato dietro di sé, nelle nostre città, tracce che la rendono facilmente riconoscibile. Tanto di queste città di oggi è frutto di quella immensa spinta: le merci sono cambiate ma gran parte delle fabbriche è rimasta, i grandi spostamenti quotidiani tra casa e lavoro sono diventati flussi meno rigidi e più capillari ma le strade sono le stesse, le pratiche del loisir sono esplose in una infinità di abitudini diverse ma i parchi e gli spazi aperti degli “standard” sono ancora lì. Le tracce del fordismo però non stanno solo nello spazio fisico che è sopravvissuto all’utopia, ma anche in quello prodotto sotto i nostri occhi. Le città di oggi non sono estranee alle procedure standardizzate, alle formule indifferenti alle specificità, alla fiducia nella quantità, al linguaggio uniformato. Qualcosa è sparito, qualcosa è mutato e qualcosa ha semplicemente continuato ad essere come prima.

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