Libri di Giovanna Piccinno

The third millennium sets the scene for a profound and radical change in the way people live. For design – which works as a continuous process, by identifying and interpreting the needs which trace the new paths and scenarios of life as it develops, and then by proposing design actions which become space, objects and ways of behaving – it is a unique opportunity to generate creative concepts and the territorial sphere, which is undergoing profound metamorphosis, provides design with another field for experimentation with great potential. By freely facing challenges and imbuing itself in its work with the languages of architecture, art, communication sciences, urban planning, landscape design and territorial marketing – with an extremely full exchange of composition grammars and behavioral responses – design can carry through a concrete revolution in the dynamics of the design of other spaces. The temporary, adaptable and reversible methods offered by the systemic approaches typical of the Design process mesh particularly well with the requirements for development and adaptability of post-industrial society, structured as it is on networked, multiple, pervasive and invisible systems, which are being continuously implemented and transformed, and on the value of the global-local relationship. The study highlights how it is possible to achieve these goals using different and distinctive spatial design tactics through collaborative engagement with neighboring creative disciplines.

This book draws a line of reasoning collecting many voices around the project theme of urban interstitial spaces [In-between] in the era of globalization and diff.use city and how the discipline of Spatial Design is concretely able to give an eff.ective and original contribution.It collects ideas, refl.ections, researches and projects developed in collaboration with professors, researchers, practitioners and students, run mainly in the academia context - in Italy at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano and in England with the University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts - while of course related to the international research and project culture.Questo libro elabora a più voci un ragionamento intorno al tema del progetto per gli spazi urbani interstiziali [In-between] nell'era della globalizzazione e della città diff.usa e di come la disciplina dello Spatial Design sia concretamente in grado di dare un proprio valido e originale contributo.Esso raccoglie idee, rifl.essioni, ricerche e progetti maturati dalle diverse collaborazioni con docenti, ricercatori, professionisti e studenti, sviluppati principalmente nel contesto del mondo accademico - italiano presso la Scuola del Design del Politecnico di Milano e anglosassone con la University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts - anche se naturalmente relazionati alla cultura internazionale della ricerca e del progetto. Giovanna Piccinno - Architect and Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano (IT), INDACO Department, School of Design, where she performs teaching and research activities. She investigates and develops projects in the fi.elds of architecture and design. Deals with Urban Design and Spatial Design carrying out applied researches. She established in 2009 and coordinates the Spatial Design Teamwork, an international research group dealing with applied research issues for the design of heterotopic spaces of the diff.use contemporary cities. She was selected by the Ministry of Innovation of the Italian Government to attend Expo Shanghai 2010 'Italia degli Innovatori' with the research project '100 Virtuous Cities'. Member of the ADI Permanent Design Observatory for the 'Compasso d'oro' award in the thematic committee 'Company research'. Professor of the PhD School at Politecnico di Milano in the Doctoral program in Design. She was part of the 'Sistema Design Italia - SDI'.Elisa Lega - Doctor in Design, lecturer at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano (IT). She graduated in Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano where she also completed her PhD research with the dissertation title of'A transdisciplinary investigation of the role of Spatial Design for the understanding of In-between urban spaces', analysing new spatial conditions within the urban transformation processes. Since 2006 has been collaborating with INDACO Department - Industrial Design, Arts, Communication and Fashion -Politecnico di Milano where in 2009 she also joined the Spatial Design Teamwork, a research group dealing with the spreading of new typologies of spaces and places in the territory of the third millennium. Her research fi.elds are related to the contemporary dynamic condition of urban spaces in order to defi.ne innovative strategies to give them value through Spatial Design approaches and practices.

Il terzo millennio mette in scena una profonda e radicale trasformazione delle modalità di vita. Per il design - che opera in un processo continuo, individuando e interpretando i bisogni che disegnano i nuovi percorsi e gli scenari di divenire del vivere - è una opportunità unica di proposizione creativa, e l'ambito territoriale, in estrema metamorfosi, offre al design un ulteriore campo di sperimentazione di grande potenzialità. Confrontandosi liberamente e contaminandosi nel suo operare con i linguaggi dell'architettura, dell'arte, della comunicazione, della progettazione del paesaggio, del marketing territoriale, in un ricchissimo scambio di grammatiche compositive e di risposte comportamentali, il design può attuare una concreta rivoluzione nelle dinamiche del progetto degli spazi altri. Infatti le modalità temporanee, adeguabili e reversibili, offerte dalle logiche del processo del design trovano una particolare coerenza con le richieste di sviluppo e adattabilità della società post-industriale, strutturata su sistemi in rete, multipli, pervasivi, invisibili, in continua implementazione e trasformazione e sul rapporto globale/locale.