2020 has shown us that we live in a fragile and isolated society. Now is the time to re-establish relationships towards a more convivial ground(s): we propose to participate in this movement through architecture, urban and territorial planning, and design. Ground(s) is rich and polysemic notion that encloses both the tangible and intangible. Ground(s) is an essential and non-renewable component of our natural capital that do not only contribute to our basic human needs but are also key component of our sense of belonging and heritage. The ground(s) constitutes the place where communities grow and leave their imprint. In this respect, they can also function as a medium to shape, establish and strengthen relationships.

Presentation

2020 has shown us that we live in a fragile and isolated society.

Now is the time to re-establish relationships towards a more convivial ground(s) : we propose to participate in this movement through architecture, urban and territorial planning, and design.

Ground(s) is rich and polysemic notion that encloses both the tangible and intangible.

Ground(s) is an essential and non-renewable component of our natural capital that do not only contribute to our basic human needs but are also key component of our sense of belonging and heritage. The ground(s) constitutes the place where communities grow and leave their imprint. In this respect, they can also function as a medium to shape, establish and strengthen relationships.

We would like to invite you to a conversation around ground(s) building on three measures :

• Mapping the ground(s) means the act of description: how can we produce knowledge that reveals the relationship between humankind and the environment?
• Designing the ground(s) involves an active response to contemporary challenges: how can we imagine new rules and forms in the long-run?
• Caring for the ground(s) encircles the act of prevention: a process of daily maintenance to generate a co-evolving relationship. Is it possible to strengthen (inter)dependency between the human and non-human world?

We suggest an increased cooperation to go beyond borders. Let us re-establish relationships between places across disciplines and sectors. Let us join together in a co-creation process, working from the ground up to reach a convivial society !

Ground(s) is edited by the PhD program in Architecture and Design Cultures - Department of Architecture - University of Bologna.

Program

Mapping, designing and caring: Towards a convivial society

09 :00 am : Institutional Greetings

• Fabrizio Ivan Apollonio, Director of the Department of Architecture
• Annalisa Trentin, Coordinator of the PhD course in Architecture and project cultures

09 :10 am

• Lecture + Q&A Paola Viganò – Iuav University of Venice

10 :00 am

• Paper Presentation + Q&A Francesca Sabatini – Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Caring for the undergrounds : the human-centred mapping of homeless people in the experience of Làbas, Bologna

• Kevin Santus – Polytechnic University of Milan

Design for urban recovery and long-term resilience. Approaching the unbalanced framework of contemporary neglected neighborhoods

• Marco Manfra, Davide Turrini – University of Ferrara

Collective design and production for caring. Spaces on the edge as common goods between city and territory

11 :00 am Coffee break

11 :10 am

Mapping the ground(s)

• Lecture + Q&A Roberto Scopigno – Institute of Information Science and Technology

Representing CH - the body and the soul

12 :00 am

• Paper Presentation + Q&A Sara Favargiotti, Chiara Chioni, Margherita Pasquali – University of Trento

The Trentino Blueprint : Mapping Dynamics Assets for Sustainable Development of Marginal Territories in Alpine Context

• Maria Giada Di Baldassarre – Marche Polytechnic University

Habitat Portraits. Trans-scalar mapping as an exploratory tool to unveil the dynamics of inner areas in Marche region

12 :45 am Lunch break

02 :00 pm

Designing the ground(s)

• Lecture + Q&A Beatrice Lampariello – University of Louvain

Grounds as a Global Village

03 :00 pm

• Paper Presentation + Q&A Matteo Vianello – Iuav University of Venice

Sailing the farm. An historical trajectory of the reproduction of cultivable ground onto water surfaces

• Margherita Ascari, Virginia Vignali – University of Bologna

Designing the accessibility of ground(s) through data and design-driven methods

• Chiara Pradel – Polytechnic University of Milan

Moving ground inside landscape. The Design of the Ground Moved by the AlpTransit Construction Activities

04 :00 pm Coffee break

04 :10 pm

Caring for the ground(s)

• Lecture + Q&A John Martin – University of Plymouth

Who care(s) ?

05 :00 pm

• Paper Presentation + Q&A Leonardo Ramondetti – Polytechnic University of Turin

Caring for Infrastructural Grounds. A research agenda

• Alice Lewis – RMIT University

Four Revisions Toward an Embodied Landscape Architecture Practice

• Fabrizio D’angelo – Iuav University of Venice

The need to design the energy ground

06 :00 pm Closing Greetings

Scientific Commitee

The Scientific Committee is composed by the members of the Academic Board of the Architecture and Design Cultures Phd Program, of the Department of Architecture of Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. 

https://phd.unibo.it/architettura/en/people

Organising committee

XXXV Phd Cycle in Architecture and Design Cultures : 

• Hanna Elisabet Åberg,
• Irene Cazzaro,
• Carlo Costantino,
• Federico Diodato,
• Javier Pérez Puchalt,
• Laura Rivaroli,
• Ludovica Rosato,
• Giulia Turci,
• Yunyu Ouyang.

website : eventi.unibo.it/grounds

mail : grounds@unibo.it

Registration form

https://eventi.unibo.it/grounds/registration-form