SEEDS - International Symposium of Landscape Urbanism

SEEDS - International Symposium of Landscape Urbanism

16 - 17 December, 2022

Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Urban Center

V.le della Repubblica, 277, 59100 Prato PO

Twenty-five years after the first symposium on Landscape Urbanism in Chicago, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci and the Urban Center of the city of Prato, with the sponsorship of Ordine degli Architetti di Prato, present two days of discussion on the theme of Landscape Urbanism, with the International Symposium SEEDS.

Beyond the rhetoric of the green, the landscape is - in itself - a factor of conflict. It is an alterity both with respect to the inhabited world and with respect to the world of design, questioning the codes, aesthetics, tools and words we use.

From this point of view, "Seeds" questions the critical and original meanings of the landscape and our way of inhabiting the Earth, and proposes 3 interrogative sessions: The right to space; The asymmetries of the contemporary world and the new globalizations; The new aesthetics and the new codes.

The International Symposium "Seeds" brings together three round tables with Italian and international speakers active today in the field of Landscape Urbanism. The articulation of the program is foreseen in online and in presence modality, and alternates in the two main sections of the symposium (16-17 December afternoon), a workshop open to students and professionals as a moment of reflection and participation in the theme (17 December morning).

• DAY 1 - December 16, 2022 (online and in presence)

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM SEEDS

h 2:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. CET

• DAY 2 - December 17, 2022 (online and in presence)

WORKSHOP, SEEDS WORDS ARE SEEDS

h 11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. CET

ART AND SCIENCE

h 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. CET

Tickets available: single ticket or 2-day tickets.

Cost: 7€ each day

Tickets gives you access to zoom link.

For more information visit: centropecci.it/it/visita/urban-center

SEEDS (16 -17 December)

FULL PROGRAMME

DAY 1 - FRIDAY DECEMBER 17

INTRODUCTION/PRESENTATION

Friday 16 Dec., h. 2.00 - 2.30 p.m. CET

Introduction: Stefano Colicelli Cagol, Director, Centro Pecci

Preview: Valerio Barberis, Town planning commissioner

Presentation: Elisa C. Cattaneo, Seeds’ Curator

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

2.30 - 3.00: Andrea Branzi in speech with

3.00 - 3.30: Alex Wall

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SESSION 1: CONFLICT

Friday 16 Dec., h. 3.30 - 5.00 p.m. CET

Introduction: Federica Pessotto

• Camillo Boano, Prof. in Architecture and Urban Design, Politecnico di Torino, Professor of Urban Design and Critical

Theory, The Bartlett;

• Alexandros Tsamis, Director, Built Ecologies MS & PhD, Center for Architecture Science and Ecology - CASE,

Rensealler;

• Felipe Vera Benitez, Housing and Urban Development Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB); prof.

In Climate Migration, Harvard University;

• Malkit Shoshan, Founder and director of the architectural think tank FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless

Territory; Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University.

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SESSION 2: ASYMMETRIES

Friday Dec. 16, h. 5.30- 7.00 p.m. CET

Introduction: Carlotta Olivari

• Cannon Ivers, Chartered member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI) and a Director at LDA Design in London;

• Ed Wall, Professor of Cities and Landscapes, Academic Portfolio Lead for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, and

co-lead of the Advanced Urban research group, the University of Greenwich;

• Jeannette Sordi, Adjunct associate professor at New York Tech and is a consultant for the Inter-American Development

Bank division of Housing and Urban Development;

• Grga Bašić, Senior Research Associate in Cartography and Spatial Media, The University of Chicago.

DAY 2- SATURDAY DECEMBER 17

WORKSHOP SEEDS

Saturday Dec. 17, h.11.00 a.m. -1.35 p.m.

h 11:00 a.m. | Registration

h 11:15 a.m. | Introduction

"Words are seeds” | Carlotta Olivari, Architect AA London

h 11:45 a.m. | “A new vocabulary of landscape”

Workshop, coordination Carlotta Olivari

h 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. | Guest presentation

Elisa C. Cattaneo, Valerio Barberis, Carlotta Olivari

h 1.00 - 1.20 p.m. | A Glossary of Urban Voids

Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, director of Holes of Matter, GDS Harvard

h 1.20 - 1.35 | Roundtable

Guests and Scientific Committee, Urban Center

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SESSION 3: ART AND SCIENCE

Saturday Dec. 17, h. 3.00-4.30 p.m. CET

Introduction: Lucia Rebolino

• Rosalea Monacella, Design Critic in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University;

• Luis Callejas, Founder LCLA Office, Professor at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design;

• Maurizio Montagna, Milan, Photographer;

• Matteo Dutto, Senior Research Manager, Monash University European Research Foundation ETS.

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4.30: On Radicals: Tim Power, Program Leader Master in Urban Vision & Architectural Design, Domus Academy.

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5.30 p.m. Final Debate