Prof. Arch. Alessandro Melis - The University of Portsmouth (UK) School of Architecture The program is based on the principle that transdisciplinarity is an essential tool for understanding environmental crises and the implications deriving from feedback phenomena. Technological innovation, physics (with a focus on fluid dynamics), biology, philosophy, literature, planning, architecture and the creative and industrial arts will be taken into account with the hypothesis of overcoming the current planning and design approach. In addition, this program will enable students to build on the notions and principles on urban planning, environmental and landscape design in order to learn planning and design methods and techniques, from a practice-based research perspective. A part of the lectures will be dedicated to international case studies dealing with three key research: “Zombie City”, “Lezioni dalla Fine del Mondo” and the recent activities on resilient communities’ actions related to the Italian Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021.

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P.D.2-2 - Aprile

11 October Introduction of the course 14:00-18:00 Why resilience: attack on science and the future of architectural urban planning. Case studies 14 October Tectonic thinking and urban design: how the culture of practice 14:00-18:00 based research can enable PhD studies at the Politecnico di Torino 21 October Exaptation and transdisciplinarity in urban planning: towards a 14:00-18:00 new architectural taxonomy 25 October Radical landscape and architectural urban planning: flow design, 14:00-18:00 niche construction, and hurricanes 28 October Community resilience: the possibility of an intrinsically ecological 14:00-18:00 urban design Final discussion with Angioletta Voghera and Fabrizio Aimar