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
“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