UE:EU is an independent research and consulting group exploring international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the implications of emergent risks on cities and their inhabitants. It emerged from Cambridge Design Research Studio, a research group within the University of Cambridge. The Article investigates the Chilean context, exploring the realtion between extreme environnemental phenomena and innovative approaches to planning and urban design. The study observes three case studies and restitutes a critical interpretation of urban transformations based on territorial analysis and on exclusive interviews with various major witnesses of urban transformations, historians, geographers and architects leading innovative processes and local institutions. Among the interviewed witnesses, the article relies on the experience of major active practitioners of the post-shock projects in Chile, such as Alejandro Aravena (architect and founder of ELEMENTAL - Leone d'Oro Biennale di Venezia), Rodrigo Araya (anthropologist, associate director at Tironi Associados) and Alejandro Guiterrez (engineer, associate director ARUP), Gabriel Salazar (Historian, National History prize 2006), Jorge Heitmann (architect, and teacher at the Universidad Politecnica de Santiago) or Sofia Sagues (sociologist and responsible for participation in the CREO Antofagasta). The article relies on the studies conducted by A. delli Ponti on the chilean context in 2010-2011 in the framework of the 3rd cycle Post-Master Diploma "Planning and Philosophy" - ENAPLV - under the direction of Prof. C. Younés - in the framework of an international funding of Università La Sapienza and EU for "Specialization studies - abroad".
Learning from Vulnerability : Environmental shock strategies in Chile
A. delli Ponti
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2015
Abstract
UE:EU is an independent research and consulting group exploring international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the implications of emergent risks on cities and their inhabitants. It emerged from Cambridge Design Research Studio, a research group within the University of Cambridge. The Article investigates the Chilean context, exploring the realtion between extreme environnemental phenomena and innovative approaches to planning and urban design. The study observes three case studies and restitutes a critical interpretation of urban transformations based on territorial analysis and on exclusive interviews with various major witnesses of urban transformations, historians, geographers and architects leading innovative processes and local institutions. Among the interviewed witnesses, the article relies on the experience of major active practitioners of the post-shock projects in Chile, such as Alejandro Aravena (architect and founder of ELEMENTAL - Leone d'Oro Biennale di Venezia), Rodrigo Araya (anthropologist, associate director at Tironi Associados) and Alejandro Guiterrez (engineer, associate director ARUP), Gabriel Salazar (Historian, National History prize 2006), Jorge Heitmann (architect, and teacher at the Universidad Politecnica de Santiago) or Sofia Sagues (sociologist and responsible for participation in the CREO Antofagasta). The article relies on the studies conducted by A. delli Ponti on the chilean context in 2010-2011 in the framework of the 3rd cycle Post-Master Diploma "Planning and Philosophy" - ENAPLV - under the direction of Prof. C. Younés - in the framework of an international funding of Università La Sapienza and EU for "Specialization studies - abroad".I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
