These projects represent the first attempt to understand better the consequences that the spreading of new IT technologies is producing and will produce in the world-wide development of cities and of the territory.
Under what we define revolution of the new economy we find visions and prophecies of progress which are in opposition one with the other, from the commercial techno-optimism to a radical ideological antagonism.
The variety and heterogeneity of the scenarios of urban development here presented should not be considered as a difficulty in building a common basis for an analysis, but it's the most evident proof of the impossibility of current trends to be understood with traditional categories of analysis.
The brief proposes to the students to consider the dissatisfaction towards the forms of urban planning as a direct consequence of the antagonism generated by the growing demand of a space design freed from the functional limits fixed in time.
In a moment in which this demand of design proposes its own idea of flexibility in the production and in the use of space, it becomes possible to determine analogies with the way of governing the growth in a post-industrial society, known as the regime of flexible accumulation.
Is the flexible design close to a tool which could free new expressive potentials within a urban space, or, on the contrary, should it be considered as a governing tool, necessary to keep the process of reproduction of urban capital coherent?

Emergenza Claudia Visser Italia, visser@iuav.it Alessia Zampano Italia, czampan@tin.it Alessandro Zuffi Italia, alexzuffi@libero.it
The Emergence theory is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements organises itself to generate a more intelligent behaviour which refers to a higher level of complexity. Systems which seem to be radically different - groups of ants, human brain, cities - reveal on the contrary to follow the same rules of emergence. In each one of these systems the elements living at a certain level of the scale express behaviours typical of the higher level: ants create groups, urban people create communities, etc. Local interactions which are parallel and cumulative complex, give birth to a sort of discrete macro-behaviour. And that behaviour, if adaptive, has the distinctive quality of becoming more and more intelligent. This action model is a quiet and generating force. Approaching the mechanism of emergence and describing the applications means to get into the space of daily life, looking for feedback examples, of self-organisation and capacity of adaptive learning. How can we interact with this force and its epiphenomenon? La città di Icaro Claudio Bosco Italia, clanabo@wappi.com Jean Rogliano Francia Antonio Ventarola Italia, ventant@tiscalinet.it
The environment, the cleanliness, the silence and the safety of the city of the future will depend on how we will be able to alter the nature of traffic in order to benefit from new technologies. Information technology is radically changing our habits. Let's just think about the telework and all the things that we can now do with the Web, at home, when we travel. People are somehow experimenting a revival of the nomad civilisation. These considerations are the starting point of a project on a future city, able to benefit at its best from the available technologies. As for Italo Calvino in Le Città Invisibili (the invisible cities), the metaphor of Eko in a fantastic city which is called Trude, is nothing but a pathway in which the character highlights a whole series of problems connected to environmental and urban factors of our cities, so our journey finishes with the vision of a possible system of future mobility, where a network of pipes suspended in the air and grabbed to the highest buildings, contains inside seats equipped with PCs moving in all directions. "If we are talking about future worlds, we also need to talk about possible ones, because somewhere these worlds already exist." Lewis, 1972. Il codice dell'IT: marginalità/centralità Chiara Crespi Italia, chiaracrespi@virgilio.it Maria Giovanna Medioli Italia, mmediol@libero.it
The incredible trust in new technologies led to think, at the end of the 80's, that IT would have eliminated any space difference enhancing a homogenous development. Nowadays we know it has not been in this way. According to Sassen, the development of telematic networks is to be considered together with the creation of a landscape with "its own capitals, its centres and its suburbs, because it re-proposes at different scales the contraposition between a centre and a suburb: at a global scale, the richest economies compared to the most marginal countries; at a regional scale, areas with highest or lowest growth; in big cities, modern urban sectors compared to sectors of economic and social backwardness." Our reflection takes inspiration from these considerations, not as a contraposition to an existing trend, but to think about the new opportunities that the application of IT can offer on marginal areas. La città camaleonte Sara Falugiani Italia, sara.falugiani@tin.it Rita Martinussi Brasile, rmartinussi@hotmail.com Francesca Zirnestein Italia, francescalz@yahoo.it
The post-industrial society reveals profound changes coming from the scientific and technological progress, the organisation development, from globalisation to economy and spread education. What are these changes about? What is their impact on the urban space? How can they be managed? The city of the individual can be considered at the origins of the social, economic, environmental and formal qualities of the city of the future. In its different current forms, from the Brazilian favelas to the exclusive golf clubs, it highlights immediate urban models, created by men to satisfy their own needs. The network of connection between all living creatures and things and the speed of information are big novelties coming from a differentiated use of new technologies which will influence culture and the physical space. The città camaleonte (the chamaleon city) is created out of these considerations. It is a beating city which keeps on changing, on organising itself according to needs, it switches on and off in a constant and quick transformation. Safari Cit Brigida Sepe Italia, brigidasepe@inwind.it Giordano Tavelli Italia, tavelli@iol.it
SAFARI CITY gathers a series of visions concerning the impact of IT on urban spaces. It is divided into two complementary categories: @home, The Networked House and city trips and urban safari, The City of Events. The situationist thought and the works by Debord, Rifkin, Marx and others, have guided the interpretation of the existing transformations and the invention of meanings. A reflection on the streets - theatre of life but at the same time contented place of antagonist action - has supported since the beginning the development of the project. SAFARI CITY is not only the city of merchandised experiences, but also a moving scenario for moments of life which are built through the collective organisation of a game of events. Universal design: Rome and Tokyo Kenji Miura Giappone, urugu.ari@nifty.com
This is a proposal, not a project. A tentative of integrate the theory of Urban Management with the tools offered by Information Technology. Starting from the analysis of two wide and important cities as Rome and Tokyo, I've imagined an innovative communication project. Communication Design of Rome and Tokyo. How does Design create a city? back to top Domus Academy via Watt 27 20143 Milano Italy tel. +39 0242413951 fax +39 024222525 infourban@domusacademy.it
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