Syllabus_UNIGE – ka-au

KA?AU SENcity ? FAV 2018

Marite Guevara — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:41:41 +0000

KA?AU has hosted for three years three higher education institutions: ENSAM in Montpellier, IAAC in Barcelona and UNIGE in Genoa, associated with 5 companies and editions ACTAR URBAN NEXT and the Festival des Architectures Vives. This consortium is working on the impact of new technologies on the city, urban planning and architecture. The FAV2018 was an opportunity to share with the general public the state of research on the issue.

The dAD Team from UNIGE for FAV, directed by Manuel Gausa with dAD’s students and PhD students of ADD, presented an installation with the title: We are city, we are information… we are the inter?faces.

The cities are the background of our daily life, that increasingly use technology in order to manage and offer better services to citizens. They become living laboratories where it is possible to experiment with new devices. The potential availability of data related to the implementation of multiple sensors and flows creates new opportunities; not only in monitoring but also in the way we draw, think and experience the city. The “big data” are thus at the service of the inhabitants and citizens, repositioning the man at the center of matter, experiencing a new idea of public space and meeting. Therefore, this new idea of space shared the installation matrix entitled: “We are city, we are inter?faces”, proposed by KAAU and by the creative students of the University of Genoa.

The Project: The installation proposes a celebration of urban diversity and multiplicity starting from an anonymous and repetitive element like the mask, which is converted into an interface device and which, through processes of interaction with information, encourages changes and participatory dynamics aimed at creating new and different identities.

The anonymous element of the mask modified and implemented by different information takes on the role of face and inter / face, capable of reacting to the flow of data and adapting to changes, actions and personal incentives.

At the same time the installation proposes a critical reflection on the danger of standardization and depersonalization in the age of virtual society. The other aim of the project was to recreate an urban living room where was possible to share with the public the state of research. Different conferences from the KAAU team have been held in the installation site, at the Hôtel des Trésoriers de la Bourse, from 13 to 15 June 2018.

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WORKSHOP: GicLab “Re-scale” – ADDUPCAPTIVESCAPE

Marite Guevara — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:28:09 +0000

From April 10 in the “Laboratory of Analysis and Design of Landscape 2” Gic Lab “Re-scale” (Scuola
Politecnica – Università di Genova) within the European project KA-AU ::: Advanced Urbanism.

Link for more info: https://www.facebook.com/gic.lab

ADDUPCAPTIVESCAPE (adaptive landscape)

WORKSHOP: Asking To Advanced Urbanism – Béziers

Marite Guevara — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:22:54 +0000

Sensors and sensibilities. City–Senses and sens(c)ivilities.
Responsive contexts and responsable societies. Precise DATAS & holistic VISIONS.
Such combination “information + vision” (processing capacity and perspective, strategic and relational capacity) lacks today of suitable reference areas and ambitious programs of interdisciplinary exchange. If we understand the new logics –associated to a new urban thinking – in relation with the challenges of
a new informational era –and the capacity, in this one, to multiply the interactions between conditions and information(s) – we need to understand in what terms we define “information”, not only as a dataparameter or a data-indicator but as a more enlarge concept associated to other assimilated key-terms
(programs, solicitations, messages, patterns, identities, matters, cultures, types, behaviours, senses, networks, natures, morphologies and metabolic contexts) able to be combined in (and from) new –and more– open, flexible and resilient (urban) systems.

Link for more info: WORKSHOP Asking To Advanced Urbanism Béziers

SUMMER SCHOOL Gavoglio – KSW Kaau Summer Workshop

Marite Guevara — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:18:53 +0000

The KSW – KAAU Summer Workshop is part of the requirements of KAAU, a relational platform between universities (research units) and business realities (dynamic companies), derived from the Erasmus Knowledge Alliances program, which aims to encourage the exchange, training and the interactions between urban planning, sustainable development and new technologies.

Link for more info: SUMMER SCHOOL Gavoglio KSW Kaau Summer Workshop

WORKSHOP: Genoa Responsive City

Marite Guevara — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:09:21 +0000

Gaming and Participation
If the physical structure and the image of the city have always been based on the technologies of production, communication and representation, how does Information era and communication technologies impact on the process of the design of the city?

Genoa Responsive City
If the physical structure and the image of the city have always been based on the technologies of production, communication and representation, how does Information era and communication technologies impact on the process of the design of the city? We still design for the people, as we have educated to do, and we consider technologies as a possibility for designing in a more optimized way. At the same time, traditional limitations of how to integrate more active citizens and communities in the design of their spaces are starting to be defeated by new design tools, highly interactive interfaces and intuitive processes.
Which are the design protocols, that allow the planning of an urban responsive organism, able to adapt and/or interact with its inhabitants? Can we implement such interaction from the very first steps of the design of the built and urban space?
Can we use responsive and gaming technologies for rethinking participatory processes on designing with the people?

Link for more info: WORKSHOP Genoa Responsive City

WORKSHOP: Proactive Resili(g)ence Blitz-International Workshop

Marite Guevara — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:34:33 +0000

Proactive Resili(G)ence BLITZ-INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP October, 28th 2016 FINAL CONSIDERATIONS In synergy with the contents presented in the International Symposium Med.Net.3 Resili(g)ence, the first BLITZ-INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPProactive Resili(G)ence (October, 28th 2016) was conceived as one day of exchanges between students, firm-experts and academic staff as an intense, productive brain-storming to share knowledge and launch first in-puts for the next Summer School to be released in June 2017: every unit developed different intuitions and inspirations – concretized in a one-day POSTER format– to communicate key-concepts able to translate the combination intelligence and resilience for the urban contexts, in the framework of an advanced approach, called to sensitize cities and citizens. Different issues and out-puts were concretize, in this meeting between KA-AU Units and Students.

Link for more info: WORKSHOP Proactive Resili(g)ence Blitz International Workshop

SYMPOSIUM: MED.NET3 Resili(g)ence

Marite Guevara — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:12:58 +0000

The approach to the development of a new Advanced Urbanism paradigm comes from the innovatory processing combination –in the last two decades– between the terms INFORMATION and INTERACTION, understood in all its dimensions, spatial environmental, social, technological and cultural. The notion of information appears, in this advanced approach, directly related with the capacity to manage complex programs and simultaneous solicitations, tendential parameters and environmental indicators, cultural tendencies and social dynamics, and, evidently, with the digital and computational increasing capacity to process, measure and optimise data in new anti-typological and open systemic approaches (integral and integrative) associated to a new Informational Urbanism.

Link for more info: SYMPOSIUM MED NET3 Resili(g)ence