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Press Review

A selection of what has appeared in the media about our activities.

Corriere della Sera

Anna Silenzi and Marianna Nigra, the young Italian designers who create Covid hospitals

Turin Polytechnic and WHO join forces to tackle the emergency. The first emergency facility in Burkina Faso combines innovation and superstition: “We couldn’t install windows, as keeping them open at night is taboo.”

Corriere della Sera

Turin on Instagram, a geoportrait in social media photos (almost exclusively the city centre and southern area)

Adriano Aimar, a researcher at the Polytechnic University, analysed 354,503 posts about the city in 2019. The most photographed? Juventus Stadium, Piazza Castello and ‘food porn’.

La Repubblica

School, emergency, Agnelli Foundation: here’s how to use canteens and corridors for teaching in an emergency

Examples developed by architects from the Polytechnic University of Turin who worked with the Agnelli Foundation: the result is a support tool with a meaningful title – “Fare spazio” (Making space) – for head teachers grappling with the final rush to arrange classrooms and ensure that pupils can return to school while maintaining the social […]

Il Sole24ore

Assisted driving: six applications undergo road testing in Turin

The technological leap forward is represented by the ability to connect elements of the ecosystem and the possibility of exchanging and processing data in real time, exploiting the potential of the 5G network and edge cloud.

LA STAMPA

Frame and click: now your smartphone can tell you all about Turin’s monuments

Pick up your phone, frame the monument, and all the information will appear on the screen. No QR codes, no antennas: just a programme that recognises the work in the frame. Arch.i, an application (already available on the Apple Store and soon also on iOS) developed by the Full interdepartmental centre of the Polytechnic University […]

Bloomberg

Portugal Passes ‘Right to Housing’ Law As Prices Surge

A bill passed on Friday by Portugal’s parliament sets out a legal basis for housing being treated as a citizens’ right. Under the new law, the Portuguese government becomes responsible for ensuring adequate housing for all citizens as “the guarantor of the right to housing.”

Il Corriere della Sera

Appendino: “The new restricted traffic zone will help combat smog.” But according to experts, “little will change, levels will remain the same.”

On the one hand, there is the 5T study, which emphasises that there will be no benefit to the environment. On the other, there is the study requested by the Councillor for the Environment, Alberto Unia, from Arpa to prove the exact opposite. Unfortunately, there is still no sign of the latter. Despite this, Mayor […]

urbanNext

RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse

People took back city-making more when they acted directly to reshape places – with the support of professionals, when needed – rather than when they expressed their opinion in deliberative processes. And those places happened to be mostly reused spaces: where the legacy of the past – often industrial – provided the infrastructure for social, […]

UrbanNext

Re-USA: 20 AMERICAN STORIES OF ADAPTIVE REUSE

3 febbraio 2018 – theforeword by the former director of FULL to his book RE-USA. “People took back city-making more when they acted directly to reshape places – with the support of professionals, when needed – rather than when they expressed their opinion in deliberative processes. And those places happened to be mostly reused spaces: […]

Future
Urban Legacy
Lab

FULL is a research center of the Politecnico di Torino. We explore, imagine and design the future of the territory and of the urban legacies.

@OGR Tech – Corso Castelfidardo, 22
10128 Torino – Italy
full@polito.it

Future
Urban Legacy
Lab

FULL is a research center of the Politecnico di Torino. We explore, imagine and design the future of the territory and of the urban legacies.

@OGR Tech – Corso Castelfidardo, 22
10128 Torino – Italy
full@polito.it