Research
Neuroergonomics, urban design, sociogenesis
by Stefano Serafini “What if, instead of breaking them, the design of cities could naturally feed social ties? There must be a way for urban planners to make cities more human-centred and livable, by focusing on how the built environment affects sociality.” ABSTRACT The International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) is organizing a Summer school in […] read more
Picturing public space: ethnicity and gender in Iraklio
by Aris Anagnostopoulos In anticipation of the International Biourbanism Workshop “Socio-Spatial Transformations Under The State Of Emergency” this August in Heraklion Crete we republish here Picturing Public Space: Ethnicity and Gender in Picture Postcards of Iraklio, Crete, at the Beginning of the 20th Century (in Eckehard Pistrick, Nicola Scaldaferri and Gretel Schwörer (eds), Audiovisual Media and Identity […] read more
Paracity
Paracity is a new project of Marco Casagrande which promises to be one of the first full scale demonstrations of a practical peer-to-peer urbanism. Taking advantage of a unique situation on the Danshui River Island in Taipei, Paracity explores a notion of positive urban parasitism, using a novel, freely adaptive, modular, volumetric structural skeleton serving […] read more
Eric Hunting
Appreciation of unseen existing spaces
A Theoretical issue for Urban and Architectural Design Abstract “We must now discover how to do more with less, how to successfully design with nature, and how to ecologically design our communities. . .” (1)This article, with its insight into the history of Western European spatial development, will attempt to demonstrate that the above […] read more
Tatjana Capuder Vidmar
Education
Social Health Clinics and Crisis Management
by Themistoklis Pellas Emergency legislation, economic dispossession, unemployment, police coercion, everyday precariousness, internalization of guilt and shame, racism attribute to the ‘management of crisis’ in Greece. Healthcare financial cuts and restructuring — under the adjustment programme between the greek state, the euro area Member States and the International Monetary Fund — parallel racialized and gendered […] read more
Shareable City, Collective Intelligence, and Open Source Urbanism
A lecture by Domenico Di Siena report by Stefano Serafini Last May the 20th Domenico di Siena contributed the ISB online lectures with a speech about resilience, urban interventions, and glocal connection. He introduced the new urban models that are triggering processes of Collective Intelligence and of Open Source Urbanism, according to the experience […] read more
