Considerations on a “smart” community
City-Society dualism is generally considered one of the most essential and unbreakable bonds of our life. Under a purely pragmatic point of view this need continues to exist, but perhaps…
Smart and historical City
In these last years, many architectural theories and urbanistic studies focused on the concept of “Smart city”. But before analyzing that and its historical and contextual declinations, I think that…
Partecipation 2.0
˂˂It sounds absolutely logical to think that if the same person plays both roles – the inhabitant and the builder –, no problem would need to be solved. Unfortunately, today’s…
Former Psychiatric Hospital of Genoa: Active Regeneration
Asylums are conceived between the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of psychiatric research. They are the evolution of the so-called sanatorium, that is the structure in which social…