Il corso di eccellenza Architectural design and its Agency: contribution to build a design practice theory affianca il lavoro di un gruppo di docenti, ricercatori e dottorandi, incentrato sul significato di innovazione nell’ambito del progetto architettonico. In particolare, il corso presenta parte di una serie di interviste a studiose di fama internazionale a proposito della loro pratica di ricerca e dei centri in cui viene svolta. Il corso prevede una duplice modalità di svolgimento: da una parte tre incontri su piattaforma Big Blue Button, dall’altra l’interazione con le interviste, che sono state raccolte in forma di pillole video su una pagina web dedicata (https://researchingthearchitecturalproject.wordpress.com/). Ai dottorandi iscritti verrà chiesto, durante il primo incontro, di costruire dei percorsi attraverso le pillole video, che troveranno ordinate secondo una categorizzazione utile a definire gli aspetti di una pratica di ricerca, le strategie per perseguirla e renderla effettiva, e la sua specificità rispetto al progetto di architettura. I percorsi avranno lo scopo di rispondere a questioni legate all’innovazione della pratica e ai possibili modi di sviluppare una ricerca effettiva. Un incontro intermedio servirà a fare il punto e discutere dei semilavorati preparati. In un incontro finale Gabriele Pasqui (Polimi) commenterà i risultati del corso e racconterà un’altra prospettiva sulla ricerca nell’università italiana.

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Lecture 1: Dana Cuff (cityLAB, UCLA, Los Angeles) Dana Cuff is a professor, author, and practitioner in architecture. She faunded and directs cityLAB, a UCLA's research center facused on issues of the emerging metropolis. Her work covers affardable housing, modernism, suburban studies, the politics of piace, and the spatial implications of new computer technologies. Among her publications The Provisional City (MIT 2000). In 2011 she edited Fast Forward Urbanism with Roger Sherman (Princeton Architectural Press). Lecture 2: Albena Yaneva, (Manchester Architecture Research Group, University of Manchester) Albena Yaneva is Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester and director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG) at the Urban lnstitute. Her research is transdisciplinary: science studies, cognitive anthropology, architectural theory and politica! philosophy. Among her publcations: The Making of a Building: A Pragmatist Approach to Architecture (Peter Lang 2009), Made by the OMA: An Ethnography of Design (010 Publishers, 2009), Mapping Controversies in Architecture (Ashgate, 2012 and Routledge, 2016) and Five Ways to Make Architecture Politica/. An lntroduction to the Politics of Design Practice (Bloomsbury, 2017). Lecture 3: Tomas Clavijo (The New Normai, Strelka lnstitute, Moscow/SpacelO, Copenhagen) Tomas Clavijo is lnnovation strategist, architect, and researcher at the intersections of urban design, tech and culture. Now is working in SpacelO, a design research lab in Copenhagen. He has also been researcher at The New Normai, a speculative urbanism think-tank and a platfarm far the invention and articulation of a new discourse and new models far interdisciplinary urban design practices of the Strelka lnstitute, where he developed - with Mikhail Anisimov, Yulia Gromova, I Katya Sivers, Andrei Zhileikin - Seiche, _an ongoing research project that explores systems syncronisation through interfaciality between legal and data workflows. Ref. https://thenewnormal.strelka.com/research/proiect/seiche Lecture 4: Future Ar.chitecture Lab (Shenzhen, GÙangdong) FALab is a research-based design studio especially in exploring the potential of urban and architecture in the future. lt has collabòr'a tions with 1T companies .and government research ceritres from regional to international. FALab is a subsidiary of XKool Tech which is faunded in Shenzhen in early 2017. XKool Technology facuses on the application of a self-developed Al design èngine in the building inçlustry to assist urban planning, architectural design; and décisions develop·ment. · ' FALab acts as a think tank serviced far XKool Tech: study and design future p.ossibilities in architectural or physical means, study and design future possibilities with non-architectural or virtual means. The subjects of research include smart cities, big data, BIM, space architecture. Ref. https://www.xkool.ai/?locale=en Lecture 5: Maurizio Ferraris (Scienza. Nuova, Università di°Torino) Maurizio Ferraris is one of the most known ltalian philosophers. He is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he is the President of the LabOnt - Laboratory far Ontology and he is working fÒr the new project Scienza Nuova. He has worked in the field òf aesthetics, hermeneutics, and socia! ontology, attaching his name to the theory of Documentality and contemporary New Realism. He wrote more than fifty books that have been translated into severàl languages. Among his publications: Storia dell'ermeneutica (Bompiani, Ì988. History of ' . Hermeneutics Humanities Press 1996), A Taste for the Secret (with Jacques Derrida - Blackwell 2001); Documentalità (Laterza, 2009. Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces, Ford,ham UP 2012), Manifesto del nuovo realismo (Laterza, 2012. Manifesto of New Realism SUNY UP, 2014)

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The course will take place on 5th, 19th and 26th of July Language: Italian and English 5 of July | Online Lecture, h 15-17 Introduction: about the architectural design agency and research 19 of July | Online Lecture, h 15-17 Mid-term review on the research assemblages 26 of July | Online Lecture, h 15-17 Final round table with Gabriele Pasqui - PoliMI