“Fragile Cities: Tactics of Care in the New Climatic Regime” :this inaugural symposium of the Invisible Cities Lab gathers renowned scholars working at the intersection of Architecture and Science and Technologies Studies and invites them to reflect on the fragility of cities, cosmopolitics, and the different tactics needed to address issues of changing climates, technological innovations, maintenance and care, and the evolving building typologies.
What defines cities today is the paradoxical co-existence of often invisible threads of ecological fragility and social vulnerability, on one hand, and the conspicuous and rapid high-tech urban developments (smart technologies, AI-driven planning, IT infrastructures), on the other.
The agenda of the Invisible Cities Lab at Politecnico di Torino is motivated by the desire to trace the entanglement of technological, urban, and ecological networks that define the current conditions in cities and thus to unpack design and urban planning process in their complex social ecologies.
The event is organized by the DAD department, and session 1—The Ecological Crisis and the Practice of Architects—features a discussant who collaborates with FULL in all three cases.
