A campus in the fields
2008 IUAV Summer workshop at the Architecture Department of the IUAV of Venice
The future that awaits us is old. It’s old if we don’t think about it in a new way. This project aims to redesign the various lifestyles by looking to the origins of our society for a conscious community.
A campus in the fields. This is the idea of a development in a large agricultural area where production and thinking are intertwined as are agriculture and philosophy: Moments of the human experience that have drifted apart in todays society, almost to the point of non recognition. It’s a place surrounded by nature where one lives and works. A place where professors, researchers and students face and develop projects that revolve around the quality of life. To be immersed in a productive natural setting that shows the cycles of nature and life in relation to those natural cycles, aiming to be an inspiration for thoughts that can create a new future.
Acting with attention and respect to this place. A community where diverse thoughts from the agronomist to the economist, from the sociologist to the urban planner combine their responsibilities and actions. A community that shows a new future in a real place. In fact, sustainability is approached (considered) not only as an attitude of respect, but also to act upon and to produce in a responsible manner.
Living ones thoughts. In the research center there are those who live permanently and run the whole organization. There are those who come for a limited time, even bringing the families along. The activities that are carried out are planning, from the thoughts on lifestyles to the construction of real situations.
During the corse a BLOG was created to illustrate the activities of the workshop: www.cibicworkshop.com/futurealities
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Video presentation of the course:
