It has become almost cliche to suggest that we live in a fast-changing world, yet we continue to cling to ideas of permanence. Neo-nomadism challenges these suppositions, hinting at a future culture that is likely to be far less attached to the material and where networking—digital and social—become increasingly critical to how daily life functions. […] 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 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
Definition prepared by the “Peer-to-peer Urbanism Task Force” consisting of Antonio Caperna, Michael Mehaffy, Geeta Mehta, Federico Mena-Quintero, Agatino Rizzo, Nikos A. Salingaros, Stefano Serafini, and Emanuele Strano. Part A. Problems with existing urban implementations 1. Centrally-planned urbanism doesn’t address anything but a big-picture view, and misses all the local details that significantly affect the […] read more
by Federico Mena-Quintero and Nikos A. Salingaros P2P (peer-to-peer) Urbanism joins ideas from the open-source software movement together with new thinking by urbanists, into a discipline oriented towards satisfying human needs. P2P-Urbanism is concerned with cooperative and creative efforts to define space for people’s use. This essay explains P2P-Urbanism as the outcome of several historical processes, […] read more
Marco Casagrande, Biourban Acupuncture. Treasure Hill of Taipei to Artena, Rome: International Society of Biourbanism 2013 [ Read & buy “Biourban Acupuncture. Treasure Hill of Taipei to Artena” on Google Books ] Science fiction has always confronted artificial and natural reality. Most of it has envisioned a future that is going to corner and minimize nature, echoing […] read more
![Participation and ICT—for a [Viable and] Living City](https://www.biourbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ICT+Partecipazione-70x70.jpg "Participation and ICT—for a [Viable and] Living City")
Antonio Caperna, Alessandro Giangrande, Paolo Mirabelli & Elena Mortola (2013) Partecipazione e ICT. Per una città vivibile, Rome: Gangemi editore The main purpose to select and connect together these chapters, papers and case studies is to link the concept of participatory urban and architectural designs to human oriented design processes, during which participants and […] read more
by Antonio Caperna Picking up a word coined by Edward Wilson, we define biophilic that kind of architecture which is capable to supply our inborn need of connection to life and to the vital processes. The biophilic space is therefore an environment that strengthens life and supports its sociological and psychological components, or, in other […] read more
An Interview with Nikos Salingaros by Michael Bauwens The peer-to-peer relational dynamic represents the basic human freedom for humans to connect to each other and to engage in actions without permissions. It can flourish in global cyber-collectives, but also on a local scale, particularly in the interstices of the mainstream system, in places where control […] read more