The Journal of Biourbanism is entering a new life stage, after the assessment of biourbanism as a relevant academic topic worldwide. We are very grateful to the former editor in chief, Professor Arch. Eleni Tracada (University of Derby), who launched the Journal and managed it along 4 years with the help of Antonio Caperna, Angelica […] read more
The ISB Fundraising Unit is looking for partners such as universities and SMEs operating in the restoration sector and related social issues for the European Call: H2020 SC5-07-2015: More Effective Ecosystem Restoration in the EU Scope: Proposals should develop for conceptually coherent ecosystem types tools, approaches, methodologies and methods to assess and predict the effectiveness relative to their […] read more
We are glad to announce that Arch. Zaheer Allam has been appointed ISB representative for Africa. He will help connecting with professionals and theoreticians from the Big Mother Continent, establishing new ISB branches, and spreading and enriching biourbanism –a new scientific approach that is more keen to several African needs and traditions than the current […] read more
The President of ISB Professor Antonio Caperna took part at the UN-Habitat Urban Thinkers Campus, last October 15-18. The Urban Thinkers Campus is an initiative of UN-Habitat in association with the Universal Forum of Cultures of Naples and Campania. It is organized in the city of Caserta, a UNESCO Cultural Heritage site in the region […] read more
by Stefano Serafini Istanbul is a dynamic, multicultural, vibrant metropolis. It is also a young one. The average age of the population is 31 years old. This adds to the deeply layered heritage of the three great civilizations in which Istanbul, sitting among Asia and Europe, has been the capital for two millennia. Contrasts characterize […] read more
by Stefano Serafini The biourban community is concerned about the spread of a new epidemic: the Biomarcophilia. It seems in fact that the revolutionary work by Marco Casagrande, European Prize for Architecture 2013 and vice-president of the International Society of Biourbanism, has a side-effect. Besides influencing an international community of designers while implementing the biourbanism theory […] read more
by Katherine Donaghy & Menno Cramer Paracity is the latest project by CURE, The Casagrande Laboratory Centre of Urban Research (CURE) a multi-disciplinary architectural, technical and engineering practice. CURE focuses on the development and research of large-scale biourban solutions, environmentalism and urban design in the post-industrial city. CURE combines and unravels traditional disciplines and guidelines […] read more
by Stefano Serafini “The survival of traditional societies over hundreds and thousands of years indicates that they surely possessed knowledge that can still be of great value either in its original form or as the basis for new developments… architects must thoroughly analyse traditional building methods and forms using scientific principles and an understanding of […] 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
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