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Intervento al convegno: WMCAUS 2018 (World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering - Architecture - Urban Planning Symposium), Praga 18-22 Giugno 2018
ABSTRACT_AFFECTIVE SPACES IN URBAN TRANSFORMATION’S CONTEXTS
The paper intends to address the topic of urban transformation within the framework of the concept of "affective space". The central research question will be: what is the influence of the affective sphere on changes that take place in the city and vice versa how much does the changes affect the emotional sphere? By placing subjects at the center of the research, the paper intends to study the relationship between individuals - as well as groups and communities - and urban spaces they inhabit. This can be done by guaranteeing centrality to the pre-reflective emotional impact that spatial situations produce on subjects, where for "spatial situation" it is intended the inclusive description of a specific condition, including both the material articulation of space and its intangible qualities that influence the subject's emotional sphere.
Several authors in different fields of environmental psychology, human geography, philosophy etc. have produced a new paradigm for the understanding of the subject's experience of the space, in which a wide sphere of emotional resonance, lived by the embodied subject, becomes important. Nevertheless, in our specific field of architecture, the affective dimension of urban space is still underexplored, while it can provide an alternative way of addressing the human and social component of urban transformation processes. Concepts such as "atmosphere" and "empathy" become central in our way of experiencing space, alongside with "memory" that has been one of the carrying concepts of late 20th century urban theory, from Aldo Rossi's classical book L'architettura della città (1966) onwards. However, the discussion has mainly concerned the historicized acceptations of memory, while less attention has been paid to the temporal extension of feeling. This is another field of research that would highlight the idea that the spatial externalization of emotions - as sustained by contemporary phenomenology - can be embedded into physical space. Thus it is possible to study the changing urban spaces at the present and in a historical perspective: residents who have witnessed the urban transformation and recent inhabitants who may witness the presence of historicized feelings through their traces.
Focusing on selected cases studies in the perspective of affective space theory, the paper intends to develop in a double direction: "top down", from theory to the real changes in urban life, and "bottom up", from the architectural re-design of specific sites back to the paradigm of theoretical approach. To achieve this goal, the paper analyzes some of the de-industrialized areas in the city of Turin, Italy, in its dramatic transition from a fordist city to a post-fordist city. In some cases these areas have been already regenerated with the developing of new urban spaces and landscapes; in others, the areas are undergoingrevitalization or are awaiting urban transformations. It is above all in these last cases that the consideration of emotional sphere becomes important, as a tool for prefiguring space and future use: not only entrusted to the functionality of "effective" space, but also to atmosphere, empathy, memory of "affective" space.
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Partecipazione al convegno: WORLD MULTIDISCIPLINARY CIVIL ENGINEERING-ARCHITECTURE-URBAN PLANNING SYMPOSIUM (WMCAUS) 2021, 30 August–5 September 2021, Prague, Czech Republic
ABSTRACT_Increasingly in recent years, different disciplinary knowledge has sought to overcome the traditional dichotomy between the natural sciences and the humanities, i.e., between a method based on “explaining”, that seek random connections and universal and necessary laws in accordance with a nomothetic arrangement, and a method based on “understanding” and in particular on empathic understanding – Einfühlung – in its various articulations, developed within the hermeneutical philosophical tradition and upon the idiographic nature of observation. In the last years, architecture has also opened up new perspectives in order to provide the designer with a better understanding of “who we are and how we actually engage the world”, as Harry Francis Mallgrave writes in his recent book (2018). Long before the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic crisis forced us to stop, leading us to think more about the spaces of our daily lives and their direct influence on the well-being (or malaise) of our bodies, some factors have contributed to what has been defined as an "emotional turn" or an "affective turn": they include the progress made by the neurosciences (particularly, the discovery of Mirror Neurons System), the resumption of phenomenological themes with the development of the “new phenomenology” and of atmospherological aesthetics, and, closely related to these, the rediscovery of empathy as a fundamental fact of human nature and perhaps the chief way in which understanding is organized in the consciousness of human action. Starting from the salient developments of embodied cognition since the 1980’s, this essay will underline an idea of architecture as a “shared continuum” between the human and the natural, that is between nature and culture, body and mind, self and world, to regain in architectural design a dimension linked - in the phenomenological tradition - to the living body, in which the rediscovery of empathy becomes the possibility to articulate an understanding of space that hinges upon feeling and human action.
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Partecipazione al convegno: 2° Stati Generali del Patrimonio Industriale, Roma - Tivoli, 9 - 11 giugno 2022.
ABSTRACT_ The infrastructural, industrial and mercantile divestment has led to problematic gaps in urban areas that have become central in conurbations. Spaces and residual axes of an industrial age are opportunities for regeneration in saturated urban centers, with renovation strategies that often take longer than other industrial sectors. Emblematic cases concern the areas of Paris, Berlin, Milan. The Vallino railroad yard of Turin is a significant case, both for its historical settlement and typological characteristics, and for the processes. The action of the Superintendence has allowed the conservation of the 1880s historic railway factory, and the almost total demolition of the buildings of the yards. The interventions - in progress and pending - open up a new urban role, of centrality as well as reconnection with the neighborhood. The project visions developed in didactic terms and the comparison with the stakeholders allowed to outline criticalities and potentials.
Paola Gregory, Rossella Maspoli: Dopo lo scalo-fabbrica ferroviaria. Rigenerare il Vallino, Torino.
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Partecipazione al convegno: World Summit: Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Congress (CAUSummit 2024), Antalya (Turkiye), 2-6 September 2024, pubblicato in ARPHA Proocedings 7 (2024), pp.190-194.
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Partecipazione al Convegno: 3° Stati Generali del Patrimonio Industriale, Bari, Matera, Lecce, 5-8 febbraio 2026
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