The course, promoted by Giovanni Durbiano, Tommaso Listo, Alvise Mattozzi and Alessandro Armando, proposes a series of in-depth theoretical explorations centered on the notion of the technical object, starting from the hypothesis that this category also includes the architectural project. With the architectural project in mind, it focuses on those theoretical approaches that, more than others, emphasize the following aspects of technical objects: their processes of formation, their capacity to make actions transferable across time and space, and their role as mediators of social relations in a broad sense. These stages also provide an opportunity for methodological reflection on possible ways of combining theoretical elaboration and empirical investigation within a research trajectory such as a doctoral program.

No prerequisites are required

- From history to theory: Marvin Trachtenberg and the project as a device of Building-outside-Time (Edoardo Piccoli, Tommaso Listo) - Philosophy of technics and technology: Gilbert Simondon and the mode of existence of technical objects (Giovanni Carrozzini, Francesca Sunseri, Marco Pavanini?) - Sociology and semiotics: Actor Network Theory and the meaning of technical objects (Alvise Mattozzi) - Technology and politics: memory, entropy, and the architectural project in Bernard Stiegler (Sara Baranzoni, Paolo Vignola?) - Discussion of doctoral research projects

On site

Oral presentation - Written report presentation

P.D.1-1 - January