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The historian of the total artefact

Paola Viganò

AA Publications2024

Space, Life, and Design

Paola Viganò

De Gruyter2024

Beyond the radio-centric Metropolis: City-territory and network pluralities in The Great Geneva

Paola Viganò, Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot

HRC-EPFL2024

Des nouveaux espaces de vie pour de nouvelles relations

Paola Viganò

Mêtis Presse2024

Viewpoint II. The Atlas of four landscapes: Thick landscape as socio-ecological medium

Paola Viganò

This contribution explores the collective experience of building up the Atlas of Paris Landscapes, exploring this city as a landscape, produced by nature and man-made actions, culturally perceived in the intersection of everyday practices of the metropolit ...

Taylor and Francis2024

Transcalar prospects in climate crisis : architectural research in re/action

Paola Viganò, Martin Fröhlich, Tommaso Pietropolli, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

As humanity grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the discipline of architecture finds itself at a critical juncture. The urgency of the situation demands that schools of architecture not only contribute to envisioning more serene futu ...

Lars Müller Publishers2024

Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

Stéphane Joost, Paola Viganò, Catarina Wall Gago, Anna Pagani, Derek Pierre Christie, Dusan Licina, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Idris Guessous, Mathias Lerch

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

2023

Il Giardino Biopolitico: Spazi, Vite e Transizione

Paola Viganò

Donzelli Editore2023

Territory Subject: Designing Human-Environment Interactions in Cities and Territories

Paola Viganò, Qinyi Zhang, Sylvie Tram Nguyen

A brief critique of the evolution of ecological perspectives surrounding the current environmental crises in the age of climate age and Anthropogenic impacts is highlighted across the inter-disciplinary fields of landscape, urbanism, and ecology. First, re ...

Springer Cham2023

Le Jardin Biopolitique. Espaces, vies et transition

Paola Viganò

Dans toute nouvelle recherche sur le futur de l’espace urbain, le regain d’intérêt pour la vie, frappée de manière tragique par les crises sanitaires, écologiques et socio-politiques, soulève une question théorique et projectuelle cruciale : quel rôle l’es ...

MetisPresses2023

Space for a New Biopolitical Project

Paola Viganò

Harvard University Press2022

OASE 110: The Project of the Soil

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte

Inspired by Bernardo Secchi’s 1986 text “Progetto di Suolo,” this issue of Oase offers critical analyses of how soil, as an intermediary entity between surface and subsurface, can further the practices of urbanism and urban design. ...

NAi Publishers2022

The Horizontal Metropolis. The Anthology

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the “Horizontal Metropolis” concept. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores various theoretical, methodological and political implications of the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis. Assemb ...

Springer2022

Exploring the Soil: Not a Sentimental Journey

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte

2022

Genealogy, Tradition: An Anthology

Paola Viganò

The Anthology concludes the series of publications on the “Horizontal Metropolis,” a research and an oxymoron whose strength resides in expanding the traditional image of the metropolis to a larger territory where urban and non-urban elements live side by ...

Springer2022

Interpretative Concepts and Visions: Introduction

Paola Viganò

The second part of the Anthology reconstructs a more recent and empirical tradition of thought that emerged in the twentieth century between the 60s and the beginning of the 90s from the direct observation of different contexts and case-studies developed b ...

Springer2022

The condition of urban agriculture in a Chinese global city: evidence from the field

Paola Viganò

Urban agriculture (UA) encompasses different practices and dissimilar agendas, not all environmentally and socially savoury, ranging from food security to leisure and recreation. Although there is a wealth of literature on UA, little research has investiga ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022

Designing Horizontality

Paola Viganò, Tommaso Pietropolli

This paper is divided into three parts. The first introduces a trilogy of concepts and figures of the discourse. The concept of isotropy, as opposed to hierarchy, evokes the same conditions in all directions. The concept of porosity tackles the fluidity an ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Le sol de la ville-territoire. Projet et production de connaissances/The soil of the city-territory. Project and Knowledge Production

Paola Viganò, Antoine Vialle, Martina Barcelloni Corte

Les exigences politiques actuelles en matière d’aménagement du territoire appellent à la convergence de plusieurs regards interdisciplinaires sur un nouvel objet : les sols fortement transformés par l’homme, dont une part significative est située dans le m ...

2020

Abitare paesi, città, e metropoli orizzontali

Paola Viganò

2020