by C-LAB Organic Machine! The Ruin Academy is set up in an abandoned Japanese-Taiwanese sugar factory (1913-1996) in Taitung, Taiwan in order to take further the biourbanist research of the Third Generation City. The core of the Ruin Academy is located in the evaporator tanks area of the factory from where it will gradually […] read more
ISB’s Summer School programme in “Neuroergonomics and Sociogenesis”, Artena, Italy, July 13th-20th 2014. The program offers seven full days of lectures, practical workshops, and design studios with international experts for exploring how to design urban environments able to revive, support, nourish, and enhance sociality and human relationships. Below you can find all the lectures, and you can […] read more
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
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
by Stefano Serafini I was worried that the symposium “Self-build processes and self-organising communities. Reflections after a year since the completion of B.E.S.T. Leonardo Partnership Project” could result in a terrifically boring and rhetorical academic event. In fact, what professor Eleni Tracada organized at the University of Derby last June 19th 2014 has been a […] read more
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
As in 2012, Peleo Film has produced and released a documentary movie about the stunning activities of the last ISB summer school (July 2013), devoted to Neuroergonomics and urban placemaking. The ISB is proud to announce that the film will be officially launched via a public broadcast from the popular Piazza della Resistenza on next June 28th, and […] read more
i-Sud is a business platform with the social goal of reestablishing a local economics in the South of Italy, by the means of cultural connections. Little Genius International is an international nursery and primary school who believes in educating new generations by merging North and South cultures, up-to-date tech and humanities, interculturalism and local identity. […] read more
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
by Antonio Caperna We’d like to thank Professor Besim Hakim for this interview and for his participation to the ISB’s Summer School in Neuroergonomics and sociogenesis that will be held in Artena (Rome), July 13th-20th 2014. Besim S. Hakim (FAICP, AIA) is a consultant in urban design and an independent scholar. He is Fellow at the American […] read more