Papers by Giovanni Santamaria
Interscalar and Resilient Morphogenesis in Metabolic Territories
Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter
It has become extremely important to revisit our overall design field in consideration of the imp... more It has become extremely important to revisit our overall design field in consideration of the impressive and sometimes overwhelming progress that the technology available to document, analyze and represent the complexity of our built and natural environments has reached, and also of the role that it has been proactively playing in affecting our way of thinking, designing and building. A renewed "theory of formativity" (Pareison, 1991) characterizes a knowledge that is generated by a constantly transforming process of "making," 1 in which methodologies, theories and learnings arise within the actions of designing and building across dimensional scales. 2.1 "Transforming Data-Scapes" The several levels of accessibility often simultaneous, to various sets of information have changed drastically through the use of heterogeneous and adaptable media systems, deeply tailored on the needs of each individual, and yet strongly interconnected in limitless and layered networks (Negroponte, 1996).
Merging Thresholds and New Landscapes of Knowledge
Practice of Teaching | Teaching of Practice: The Teacher’s Hunch
It has become extremely important to revisit our teaching methodology along with pedagogical cont... more It has become extremely important to revisit our teaching methodology along with pedagogical contents and objectives, in consideration of the impressive and sometimes overwhelming progress that the technology available to document, analyze and represent the complexity of our built and natural environments has reached, and also the role that it has been proactively playing in affecting our way of thinking, designing and building. A renewed “theory of formativity” (Pareyson)1 styles a knowledge that is generated by a constantly transforming process of “making,” in which methodologies, theoriesand learnings arise within the actions of designing and building, and mostly because of the making. Following the etymology of the Greek world2, this making could be understood as poetic way of actively participating to the changes of our environment. If we look carefully, this approach to structure the knowledge has been deeply rooted in the history and legacy of the most relevant architects and...
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Papers by Giovanni Santamaria