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"Urban interiors. Artificial territories. Designing “spatial script” for Relational Field"
No full textReal-time layouting: a design 'way of doing' to improve participatory process tool-kit, applied to the conversion of buildings
No full textPRO‐OCCUPANCY. Design dei microambienti urbani contemporanei: tra performatività dell’allestimento e appartenenze.
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Cross-cultural design attitude: open-ended design solution for welcoming the Diversity
No full textItaly draws lots of refugees from the Mediterranean regions: in 2010, Milan
received more then 850 people in its welcomely Centres. Municipalities, citizens but
also professionals must be involved in the collective answer to such a kind of
phenomenon. The ephemeral nature of the settlement in the Centres, the precarious
conditions of staying, as well as the variety of tenants’ identities (multi-ethnical and
gender turns) shape a new research field of great, social, importance which challenges
the designer to imagine new strategies and tactics for collective living. These reasons
convinced a multi-disciplinary group (designers, social workers and environmental
psychologists) to start a dialogical process, addressed to redefine characteristics and
qualities of host-structures for asylum seekers and refugees, in Milan. The diversity of
disciplines shared methods of analysis and interpretative models, whose availability
was granted by designers’ work. The research methodology is inspired by a recent
approach of AR, called pro-occupancy, which considers target-need as a complex
system made by tangible and intangible queries. The research process feeds, in a
circular way, the final year studio of the Interior Design BA (Politecnico di Milano):
students developed scenarios and practical solution to rethink the current “state of
art” of the Centres
Design research on temporary homes
No full textTemporary Homes focuses on questions of home, identity, and modes of inhabitation in relationship to asylum seekers and political refugees in Milano, Italy. The design research takes into account people's complex and diverse cultural backgrounds and individual needs and aims to connect so-called "reception centres" in Italy to the wider urban an social context. Projects address issues of temporary residence, multi-cultural co-habitation, the need for privacy and interpersonal relationships, in order to develop more hospitable and welcoming design proposals
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