Today we are witnessing (in the fields of architecture and design, but also in the context of emergence and spread of a social and solidarity economy) a renewed interest in “making” and a revival of the tradition of Do It Yourself (DIY), which concerns as much the professionals of culture than the representatives of civil society.
Thus we rediscover craftsmanship, but in the current context characterized by the power of new digital tools (many observers can thus speak of a new “digital” or “industrial” craftsmanship). “Third places” therefore appear (especially in urban areas) that try to create intermediate spaces between the private domain and the public domain, relational spaces where the meetings that occur have a greater importance than the things produced, places whose identity is built around links, so that “making” again becomes a way of acting in common.
The Research Workshop will be dedicated to the Spatial, Political and Aesthetic Models of “Making”. The invited speakers (professors, senior researchers, professionals, junior researchers and PhD students of thematic axis n°3 «Héritages et innovations» of Lab of Research LAVUE - UMR 7218 CNRS and of the Department of Architecture of Unibo) will investigate the role of Making at different scale, local, transnational, etc., understanding the new frontiers, the potentiality of innovation, and inclusion of new communities and new/temporary forms of citizenship, such as minorities, liminal subjects, migrants, returning migrants, temporary city-users, students. How local “makers can establish relations and synergies with consolidated local productions” (i.e. manufacture, creative and cultural productions)? How they can influence and be influenced by the intrinsic value of cities and their cultural landscape? How their “acting in common can impact on the places” triggering physical renovation and new relations at local, regional and cross-city scale? Researchers, designers and PhD students will present theoretical contributions and applied case studies (in both French and English).
The workshop is connected to the preparation of the vol. 2, n° 2 (2019) of the European Journal of Creative Practices in cities and landscapes CPCL that will be published in December 2019 (main Editors Manola Antonioli, professor of Philisophy, Ecole
Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette – LAA UMR 7218 LAVUE CNRS, Abir Belaïd and Simon Bertrand, PhD students at UMR 7218 LAVUE CNRS).
Organized by Department of Architecture, Department of Excellence Miur (L. 232 of 1/12/2016)