ADAPTIVE CITY. Experiments with urban patterns for the city in transitions.
The City and Territory Studio B explored re-urbanization strategies for cities that undergo multiple and simultaneous transitions encompassing environmental, social, and technological shifts. Through design explorations in diverse urban contexts such as Barcelona, Tokyo, New York City, and, with a broader focus, Turin, students experimented with regeneration-oriented approaches for the post-industrial city. The aim of the Studio was threefold: 1) to explore a design process specific to existing urban environments; 2) to critically approach sites and strategies with particular attention to context and emerging needs and challenges; 3) to experiment with flexible urban patterns for the “adaptive city”, capable of responding to continuous changes in socio-economic and environmental conditions.