"LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE TIME OF THE ANTHROPOCENE"
The course will aim to sensitize students towards the themes of landscape architecture, in light of the radical changes that climate change will imprint on it in the near future: the rise in sea level and the new configuration of the coastline, the '' increase in temperatures and the displacement of housing demand towards areas with colder microclimates and predominantly mountainous character, the erosion of wooded areas, the modification of current habitats and soil conditions induced by periods of drought and water scarcity. These are just a few examples that highlight how much the architecture of and in the landscape, whether it is interpreted as an infrastructural device (geoengineering, solar, wind and waste disposal plants) or as a building on an urban scale, must be rethought through new theoretical and operational tools. .
The course aims to stimulate and direct students towards a conscious acknowledgment of the change in future landscapes and the consequent need to introduce, within them, artifacts and architectures that can identify new ways in the inspiring reasons. operational for the project at the time of the anthropocene.
The course will be divided into two phases
First phase (February-March): “Architecture beyond the end of the world
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1. General introduction to the year's theme through a cluster of lectures on theoretical foundations and new application models.
2. External lessons The course will host 3 lectures held by renowned external guests
3. Application and experimental part based on creative practice interpreted as a design and analysis tool capable of prefiguring the new operational scenarios (use of drawing through its various digital and analog techniques).
Second phase (April-May):
1. Introduction to the role of the landscape architecture project as a tool capable of providing a response to contemporary emergencies, with particular emphasis on the climate. Through a cluster of lessons, the way in which the basic processes of the urban climate work and how these must influence a multi-scalar approach are explained, starting from the urban scale up to the use of specific devices.
2. External lessons The course will host 3 lectures held by renowned external guests
3. Application and experimental part based on the preliminary study of the meteorological events characterizing a specific urban context to arrive at the definition of new scenarios, with a view to a project experience that is able to integrate different disciplinary knowledge and languages.