FLOATING HABITAT SYMPOSIUM

This webinar symposium aims to advance architectural and landscape knowledge on floating as ways of living, urging the study of natural and artificial (modern/vernacular) floating habitats in the broadest sense. The debate will be of interdisciplinary interest, offering a new critical ecological-cultural gaze at floating landscapes from different lenses: from historical examples to contemporary design-based proposals, from the Metabolists’ theory of marine cities to contemporary socio-political urgency in the Anthropocene highlighted by the current threats of climate change and the constraints of a post-industrial and post-consumerist society.

The symposium holds that floating islands (both as natural and artificial artifacts, but also as an abstract idea) are a concrete and powerful representative habitat of today's interrelatedness facing contemporary global radical changes and challenges.

The participants are international scholars, academics and practitioners from different backgrounds and geographical areas, thus covering an incredible spectrum of perspectives and expertise on floating habitats. The various contributions intend to promote mutual exchange of critical knowledge and transdisciplinary reflections, whilst the discussion on selected and relevant case studies will make this event more significant, with global visibility expanding and deepening the scientific comprehension of this urgent and timely topic.

Alessandro De Magistris | PoliMI

Alice Covatta | University of Montreal

Andreas Kipar | LAND/ PoliMi

Brydon T Wang | Queensland University of Technology

Carola Hein | TU Delft

David Grahame Shane | GSAPP Columbia NY

Francesco Musco | IUAV

Ida Križaj Leko | DeltaLab, UniRi

Iisa Aurora Eikaas | University of Copenhagen

Jenny Tang | ECOLAND

Jin Taira | ULPGC Universidad de la Palma de Gran Canaria

John Hanna | TU Delft

Laura Cipriani | TU Delft

Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi | PoliMi

Matteo Vianello | IUAV

Nebojša Jeremić | PoliMi

Paolo De Martino | IUAV/ TU Delft

Raffaele Pernice | UNSW Sydney

Rutger de Graaf | Blue21 - INDYMO - Blue Revolution Foundation

Vedrana Ikalović | Lille Catholic University

Nathalie de Vries | MVRDV / TU Delft

Welcome by Massimo Bricocoli | PoliMI & Riza Yosia Sunindijo | UNSW Sydney

Final discussion with Pierre Alain Croset | PoliMI

Webinar time comparsion link: Rome/Sydney/New York

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https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/leonardo.zuccaro

Raffaele Pernice | UNSW Sydney
Raffaele Pernice is an EU licensed architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). He holds a PhD in Architecture from Waseda University and a Master of Architecture degree from IUAV University of Venice. He is editor of ‘The Urbanism of Metabolism. Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow’ (Routledge 2022).

Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi | PoliMi
Leonardo Z. Marchi is an architect and Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Studies at Milano Politecnico (PoliMi), Department of Architecture and Urban Studies. He holds a joint PhD from the IUAV University of Venice and UT Delft and a joint Master of Architecture degree from Milano Politecnico and Torino Politecnico. He is author of ‘The Heart of the City’ (Routledge 2018), and he is cofounder of CoPE_Collective of Projects in Equipoise.

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