Passages aims to investigate notions of space for mobility in contemporary architectural discourses. 
How architectural design can contribute to reimagining spaces to overcome functionalist engineering limitations, also considering the ecological, climate and social impacts of mobility spaces as something more than mere built objects?

This conference aims to unveil the potential of architectural design and research tools to enrich unconventional discussions about mobility in urban and peri-urban contexts, its spatial configurations and experiential qualities. Although mobility is intended as a framework, the discourse will focus on the spaces above, below, in-between, and to the sides of the ordinary boundaries of architectures of flow, as well as on the spaces of new forms of movement.

 

52 contributions, delving through the key-questions of Intersection, Collateral and Evolution:

·       Intersection: Over, Under, Architecture - with Fabio Lepratto (DAStU, Chair)

·       Intersection: Spaces of Transition - with Francesco Zanotto (DAStU, Chair)

·       Collateral: Landscapes of Re-Invention - with Andrea Oldani (DAStU, Chair)

·       Collateral: Mobility and the Cityscape - with Chiara Nifosì (DAStU, Chair)

·       Evolution: Unfolding new mobilities - with Giulia Setti (DAStU, Chair)

·       Evolution: Between Utopia and History - with Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi (DAStU, Chair)

·       Gilles Delalex, with “Holy Highway” from ENSA Paris Malaquais, founder of Studio Muoto (France)

·       Mads Birgens with “Time and the City” from Studio COBE (Denmark), Head of the Urbanism Department

·       Adriaan Gueze with “Birnham Wood” from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), and founder of West8 (Netherlands)

Debating on “Comparing Forms and Spaces of Contemporary Mobility” with

·       Alessandro Rocca (DAStU, Chair)

·       Alfonso Femia (Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia)

·       Sara Favargiotti (UniTN, DICAM)

·       Beatrice Moretti (UniGE, DAD)