by Stefano Serafini Everyone remembers the lucky slogan featured by Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities: for the sake of safety, livability, and hence attractiveness of cities “there must be eyes upon the street”. Such a maxim seems to evidently match common sense, but yet some critics have been challenging […] read more
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
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 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 “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 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
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
The ISB has organized a 3 days conference on Biourbanism and small towns, in order to discuss the results of one year of activity over the Italian cities of Artena, Segni and Carpineto Romano. The conference has been held in Rome, at the Faculty of Architecture, Roma Tre University, on October 18th; in Artena, on […] read more