CULTURA TECNOLOGICA DELLA PROGETTAZIONE

The course aims to provide the methodological tools and knowledge needed to understand the role that technology tends to assume in contemporary society, underlining its structural contribution and the impact it has had on the development of the project in its current meaning of a procedural nature. In the current scenario the architectural project is at the center of the debate as a complex process that has the difficult task of working the synthesis between scientific, social and political bodies and provide a personal cultural point of view. The crisis of the anthropocentric vision demands a radical change of the point of observation regarding the comparison with the environmental question and in particular regarding the management of choices in relation to materials and consumption of resources and the impact on health of the urban environment.

The training objectives aim to build specific competences in line with the contents of the Dublin descriptors and thus:

1. have demonstrated knowledge and understanding that is founded upon and extends and/or enhances that typically associated with the first cycle, and that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in developing and/or applying ideas, often within a research context;

2. can apply their knowledge and understanding, and problem solving abilities in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study;

3. have the ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and formulate judgments with incomplete or limited information, but that include reflecting on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments;

4. can communicate their conclusions, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously; have the learning skills to allow them to continue to study in a manner that may be largely selfdirected or autonomous.

The course foresees frontal lessons and exercises in the classroom.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Moreover the possibility of coordination with the course of Industrial Design

In the field of Architecture Technology, the discipline of Technological Design Culture aims to build the awareness that «Facing the project by taking the technological culture as a reference on the one hand allows a rapprochement between the idea and its realization and on the other brings together two paths that, today perhaps even more than in the past, seem to continue in parallel: the path of the formal concept that aims to build visions regardless of the materiality of objects and processes and the path of engineering optimization that, prone to the logic of performance-based design, is limited to specifying the terms of constructibility and minimizing the risks of failure, without any concern for those aspects that cannot be traced back to a measure of performance.»

Starting from an examination of the words that make up the phrase Technological Design Culture, the lectures will bring attention to the three main themes of contemporary debate:.

•project, sustainability and process circularity;

•project, uncertainty and resilience

A focus will be dedicated to the production of Foster Partners that with the design research developed in the last twenty years has addressed the issue of sustainability and more recently that of climate change.. A seminar within the Course provides for the active participation of students for the collective discussion of the issues addressed in the projects of Foster Partners through the use of specific solutions.. The experience will end with a design exercise whose objective will be to understand how the principles of the Circular Economy can be inserted into the building process.

A focus will be dedicated to the production of Foster Partners that with the design research developed in the last twenty years has addressed the issue of sustainability and more recently that of climate change.. A seminar within the Course provides for the active participation of students for the collective discussion of the issues addressed in the projects of Foster Partners through the use of specific solutions.. The experience will end with a design exercise whose objective will be to understand how the principles of the Circular Economy can be inserted into the building process.

Recommended reading

1 Perriccioli M. (a cura di), Pensiero tecnico e cultura del progetto, Milano:FrancoAngeli srl, 2016

2 Nastri M. Téchne e poiesis, Milano:FrancoAngeli srl, 2018

3 Bonomi A., Della Puppa F., Masiero R., La società circolare, Derive approdi, 2016

Other bibliographical references will be provided during the course, in relation to the contents of the in-depth lectures on the topics covered.