La mente è come un paracadute. Funziona solo se si apre.
- Einstein
La crisi delle dimensioni fisiche, come crisi della misurazione, va di pari passo, come è facile comprendere, con la crisi del determinismo e riguarda, oggi, l’insieme delle rappresentazioni del mondo
- Paul Virilio
“...une même ville regardée de différents côtés paraît tout autre, et est comme multipliée perspectivement”
- G. W. Leibniz

La mente è come un paracadute. Funziona solo se si apre.

- Einstein

La mente è come un paracadute. Funziona solo se si apre.

- Einstein

Rigenerazione urbana
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Categoria: Convegni

Partecipazione al convegno: 3° Stati Generali del Patrimonio Industriale, Bari, Matera, Lecce, 5-8 febbraio 2026

Starting from the analyses and project proposals developed during university workshops, the aim of this contribution is to explore hypotheses for the transformation of the former post office building in Via Monteverdi, Turin.
 
This presents an opportunity for the regeneration of spaces and services within this part of the city. The building, decommissioned in 2009, is an example of an innovative industrial and service system from the 1970s. In its current material state, characterized by an impressive metal structure, it represents an important testimony to our recent past. It raises questions about the potential relationship between conservation and innovation, between the original purpose and opportunities for adaptive reuse, and also considers the interests and feelings of the residents.
The prevalent experimental interventions have envisioned:
- At the building level, particular attention to its historical and emotional value;
- At the urban-territorial level, different degrees of openness and porosity.
The strategic location of the area within a post-industrial context enables the enhancement of large green spaces, with an emphasis on a network of ecosystem services.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Spazio Affettivo Rigenerazione urbana
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Categoria: Convegni

Partecipazione al Convegno: 3° Stati Generali del Patrimonio Industriale, Bari, Matera, Lecce, 5-8 febbraio 2026

Our contribution deals with the exemplary case of one of Italy's most important factories, ThyssenKrupp in Turin. Founded as Fiat Ferriere between 1957 and 1962 on a bend of the Dora River, it now stands abandoned and linked to the memory of the tragedy that took place in December 2007, when seven workers lost their lives in a fire.
The events surrounding ThyssenKrupp appear emblematic of Turin's industrial history and its most recent urban regeneration policies, alternating between moments propulsive for hypothetical transformation and periods of rethinking the same purposes of use on a territorial scale. The problem in promoting proactive actions is linked to the private ownership of the plant and its size, the necessary reclamation work, the challenging access to the area, and the difficult socio-economic context of the Lucento neighborhood.
In particular, our contribution aims to reflect on the documentary and testamentary value of this massive, barrier-like building, which embodies historical significance, collective memory, and a hoped-for memorialization, because the ThyssenKrupp pyre remains “a wound that will not heal” and for the families a story of justice betrayed.
 
 
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Spazio Affettivo Rigenerazione urbana
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Categoria: Convegni

Partecipazione al convegno: XIIth SWS International Scientific Conference on ARTS & HUMANITIES - ISCAH2025, 24-29 August, 2025

Starting from urban regeneration projects for a brownfield site in Turin, the paper aims to focus attention on the eco-symbolic mediation that lies between physical and metaphorical, material and immaterial aspects. These aspects, which always influence the architectural choices, take on particular importance in projects that involve existing buildings, which are more or less defined by their own identity, collective memory, and historical culture.

For this reason, the contribution intends to broaden the perspective towards the concept of urban landscape which seeks not only to account for the complexity that characterizes urban areas, but also to emphasize the intrinsic relationship established between a society and its environment, based on ‘lived experience’, that is on the emotions, the feelings, the memories, the imagery, and the expectations that a place, in preserving (or not) its current consistency, can evoke and represent.

As an expression of a “médiance”(A. Berque), the concept of landscape seems central to analyze the delicate relationship between design and memory, between material and emotional heritage, and to take into account the aesthetic and affective qualities that are not always tangibly present in the territory, but which nevertheless often define some of its salient and identifying characteristics.

 

 

P. Gregory, R. Maspoli, M. Ramello, A. Sorrentino, Ipotesi di rigenerazione fra permanenza e innovazione. Il caso dell'ex Centro di smistamento postale di Via Monteverdi a Torino,in "Stati generali del patrimonio industriale" 2026/02, Bari-Matera-Lecce

Spazio Affettivo Lived experience Empatia
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Categoria: Convegni

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.

ABSTRACT_ In his Art as Experience (1934), John Dewey coined the slogan "learning by doing," emphasizing the need for art to return to its aesthetic root in the proper sense, which is the experiential one, where experience is not mere sensation; it is on the contrary interaction of living with the environment, an integral event for both the author of the work and the user. This paper intends to bring attention back to the experiential dimension of architecture, highlighting the need for a necessary shift from the formal structure of the work to the lived experience that can take place within it to configure, as Harry F. Mallgrave (2013) writes, "palpable environments" within which our mind-body systems are intertwined and highly stimulated. Within a fruitful relationship between affective and cognitive neuroscience, Neurophenomenology, New Phenomenology, and Atmospherology, this paper aims to emphasize the pivotal role that empathy can play in the design and reception of space, bringing attention back to the experiential dimension based on the extensive involvement of the body in its psycho-sensory globality. The focus is not so much on the ‘given’ reality, as on that "state of things" (material or not) whose actual reality is currently and subjectively established. Therefore, the return is to the phenomenon as a state of things that, by affectively involving us, "we cannot not-admit". A difficult topic to address, the empathic relationship between the producer of work and the user/users can assist design choices by focusing attention on the perceptual and emotional aspects that always accompany our cognitive processes. The emphasis on “embodied cognition”, as a necessary premise for developing an empathic space, can help us understand more clearly the fundamental role of our living body in interacting with the built environment to implement physical and psychological well-being, both individual and collective.
 
 
 
 
 
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Rigenerazione urbana
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Categoria: Convegni

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.

 
 

Scalo Vallino: Progettare in attesa. Mostra dei progetti elaborati nell'Atelier ARCHITETTURA AMBIENTE e SPAZIO COSTRUITO (Maggio-Giugno 2023)

Paola Gregory, Rossella Maspoli: Dopo lo scalo-fabbrica ferroviaria. Rigenerare il Vallino, Torino.

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  1. P. Gregory, Towards an empathic architecture
  2. P. Gregory, Giovanni Michelucci: l'opera e il pensiero fra tradizione e innovazione
  3. P. Gregory, M.L. Barelli, Pratiche di gioco nella rappresentazione e nella riorganizzazione degli spazi comuni: il progetto “Qui abito” nel quartiere Le Vallette a Torino / St. Etienne 20-22 Novembre 2019
  4. Jorge Lobos, Università di Sassari Il linguaggio dell’architettura culturale. Un passo necessario per un’architettura dei diritti umani
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