Paola Viganò: Designing for new climates

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.

Diese Veranstaltung findet in Kooperation mit der Landluft Universität statt.