How does architectural design change when the digital revolution has eliminated the separation between design, production and construction? What prospects for action can the project have, in an increasingly mediated world? And which scientific and technical status of the project emerges from the previous considerations? The course aims to redefine the practice of the architectural project, both in terms of production and exchange of "projects" - meant as material entities - and by legitimizing the notion of architectural project as a specific form of knowledge. Starting from the analysis of the difficulties in socializing the relevance and consistence of the architectural field, we will try to define how the project can establish its own specific operational, but also technical, symbolic and political, dimension. Unlike other investigations, that have examined the relationship between architecture and politics, the research neither will focus on the results (architectures) neither on the authors (architects), but rather on their work/labour: the project. The shift from the architects-subjects (their good intentions, their sets of values and visions) to the objects (the design products as active entities) deploys a different set of approaches in treating the architectural project as an open practice. The theories and methods include STS and ANT analysis applied to architecture, but also contributions from social ontology and philosophy of science. The project of architecture will be treated as the material/documental outcome of an entangled agency among different kinds of agents (entities, rules, registration, collective representations). Starting from these assumptions we will try to provide a convincing and effective notion of "performativity" for the architectural project, capable to respond to the social challenges regarding the transformation of the built environment of our cities and territories.

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Starting from a bibliography on the relationship between architectural design and the themes of the digital revolution, of the mediations between different implications with which the project must confront, and of the time of the project, the course is divided into six meetings in which the boundaries of design pratice, are discussed in seminar form. The meetings are attended by the designers participating in the research group gathered around www.teoriadelprogetto.com/

Mixed mode

Oral presentation - Written report presentation

P.D.2-2 - July

10 mag 15.30 - 19.00 Il respiro delle città Matrici spaziali mediterranee per abitare il futuro con: Pepe Barbieri & Cristina Bianchetti Verifica dei poteri, introduzione al corso Sala Vigliano 17 mag 15.30 - 18.30 cosa farsene del potere politico/amministrativo del progetto? Valerio Della Scala & Caterina Quaglio Sala Mollino 24 mag 10.00 - 13.00 il documento e la sistematizzazione Francesca Favaro & Elena Todella Saletta Riunioni DAD 14 giu 15.30 - 18.30 Incontro conclusivo Sala Mollino