Notes on the City and the Future

Authors

  • Massimo Pica Ciamarra Massimo Pica Ciamarra is one of the founding members of IDIS - Institute for the dissemination and utilization of scientific culture; member of the '30 Committee - Council of Tall Building and Urban Habitat Lehight University - Pennsylvania, USA; honorary member of the National Institute of Bio-architecture; from 2012 Professor I.A.A. - International Academy of Architecture. Graduating in 1960; lecturer in 1969, from 1971 to 2007 Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Naples; 1997-2011 National Vice INARCH - National Institute of Architecture; Vice BIOA - "Italian Foundation for Bio-architecture and sustainable environment anthropization"; President of the Scientific Committee of "Bioarchitettura®", Scientific Committee Coordinator of INARCH.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/5015

Keywords:

Cities of the Future, Spaces for Education, Memory and Future

Abstract

The city of the future may only be "the city of presences" where coexist conflicts, tensions and different models. Experiences that deny the distinction between center and periphery and work on the physicality of the city with ambitions of an intangible nature. It isn’t arid functionalism: they affirm the need of "surplus" to give meaning and beauty to urban spaces.
Spaces for education should be the ones able to faster record the change, mainly because they are rich of unknown functions. They summarize the evolutionary path that – in many experiences of the Mediterranean regions – motivate the opposition to the idea of campus of Anglo-Saxon derivation.
Who "designs" is the one who bears the present because she/he is lucky enough to live towards the future. Today I imagine cities that link past and future, expressing sense in their own areas; cities without "non-places", but rich in "social condensing places"; cities able of accommodating; of making life simple and easy for all, kids, adults, seniors; of expressing integration, and no more separation.

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Published

2017-01-30

Issue

Vol. 4 (2017): RTH - Education & Philosophy: Think Tanks for the Future of the Research in Humanities

Section

Brain Education Cognition

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