FS 2019 LECTURE

Massimo Faiferri

REINVENTING THE WORLD Reuse and transformation as a topic for contemporary housing Tuesday, March 26, 2019 / 16:00 / ONA G23 Wide-ranging initiatives continue to rise awareness on the fact that the housing emergency (whether caused by natural disasters or socio-economic phenomena) is ever so relevant in contemporary design. We must yet again start from the theme of the residence in order to identify new forms and typologies of the living space. In recent years the ecourbanlab research laboratory directed by Massimo Faiferri has promoted a series of initiatives focused on the relationship between housing and city, organising meetings, workshops, conferences and design experiments to investigate the latent potential of the new forms of residence in developing contemporary urban landscapes. Sustainable and affordable housing is an international book series founded with the aim of conveying the studies, research and cultural initiatives developed within the international Master’s Degree of the same same set up at the Department of Architecture, Design and Urban planning of the University of Sassari, in cooperation with the Facultade de Arquitectura of the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, the Universidade Presbiteriana of Sao Paulo and the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Departement of Labour, Vocational Training, Cooperation and Social Security. Re-invent is one of the books in this series that tries to investigate the theme of reuse and transformation in the work of Lacaton & Vassal. The underlying philosophy of their work is in fact the research of a low-cost, though generous in space, form and housing. The concept of reuse and re-invention becomes the driving principle of design with the aim of overlapping new intentions to pre-existing systems, while maintaining the right balance between past and future; in the certainty that the well-being, dreams and expectations of contemporary society can be met through these principles.   Massimo Faiferri An architect with a PhD from the IUAV University of Venice, he is Associate Professor of Architectural & Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning (DADU) in Alghero. He has successfully taken part, as partner and designer of the Studio Professionisti Associati s.r.l., in national and international competitions, winning them on several occasions. His articles and many of his works have been published in national and international architecture reviews. Having lectured in a variety of workshops and international Masters, he is Director of the “Sustainable and Affordable Housing” International Master, in collaboration with the DADU (Alghero), FAU (Lisbon) and Mackenzie (San Paolo). His research work is based at the DADU and the ecourbanlab, which he founded there. In recent years his research fields have focused both on the relationship between housing and city, organising meetings, workshops, conferences and design experiments to investigate the latent potential of the new forms of residence in developing contemporary urban landscapes, and on teaching spaces, considering learning environments as spaces of complex interactions. Language: English Link: Studio Professionisti Associati FS 2019 Lecture Poster