“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 HAPPY, BY FOCUSING ON THE EFFECTS THAT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT HAS ON SOCIALITY.„ This ISB Summer School presents a challenging programme in “Neuroergonomics and Sociogenesis”, to be held in Artena, Italy, […] read more
Economics is a stately subject, prim and respectable, one that’s altered little since its modern foundations were laid in Victorian times. Now it is changing rapidly, thanks to the work of a small group of researchers over the last two decades in New Mexico. The story started in 1987, when two Nobel prize winners, economist […] read more
INTERNATIONAL BIOURBANISM WORKSHOP Heraklion Crete, Greece | August 1st-9th 2014 The Crete Workshop in “SOCIO-SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS UNDER THE STATE OF EMERGENCY” will be held in Heraklion (Crete, Greece), August 1st-9th 2014. It aims to delineate the systemic implications of local responses to recession and explore socio-spatial practices that contradict and negate the current economic restructuring regime. […] read more
by Eric Hunting 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 […] read more
International Society of Biourbanism at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ART, ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN Bologna, Italy, 25-27 June 2014 “Past present and future of public space” is an Italian project, developed as an academic research activity by Dr. Luisa Bravo at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna (Italy). It aims to explore new dimensions […] read more
A Theoretical issue for Urban and Architectural Design by Tatjana Capuder Vidmar 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 […] read more
by Linley Lutton A compelling account of community disempowerment and poor city planning The story of Elizabeth Quay in Perth, Western Australia needs telling. Perth is a relatively young coastal city of 1.7 million people. It has a Mediterranean climate, an easy-going lifestyle and a wonderful large central river. The city was assaulted by […] read more
European Prize for Architecture 2013, founder of the Ruin Academy and of the C-LAB, Marco Casagrande is an innovative architect and social thinker who aims at bringing human authenticity back to urbanism, architecture, and art. His biourban acupuncture has become a revolutionary bottom-up and p2p approach to urban planning. He has worked, exhibited, and taught […] read more
I. Professor Nikos Salingaros (USA) appointed Honorary President of the ISB The renowned urban theorist Nikos Salingaros, currently professor of Mathematics at The Texas University at San Antonio, is our Honorary President. We are proud and happy to be able of relying on his exceptional expertise and visionary inspiration. Nikos Salingaros has published some of […] read more
by Stefano Serafini I met Petros at the Economics and the Commons Conference in Berlin, last year, in the colored context of techies, social activists, economists, and more-or-less fancy designers you may expect to see during such occasions. He was offering information about his initiative of travelling along the whole Greece, in search for local […] read more