Research by (urban) design. Breaking boundaries / founding grounds

........................................................................................................................................... RESEARCH BY (URBAN) DESIGN Breaking boundaries / founding grounds Thursday 2nd December 2010, 2pm-6pm Politecnico di Milano | Campus Leonardo | Aula Rogers | via Ampère 2 ............................................................................................................................................ speakers: Ellen Marie Braae (University of Copenhagen) Bruno De Meulder (KU Leuven, TU Eindhoven) Arturo Lanzani (Politecnico di Milano) Marialessandra Secchi (Politecnico di Milano) Kelly Shannon (KU Leuven) discussants: Patrizia Gabellini, Francesco Infussi, Cesare Macchi Cassia with the participation of: Paolo Bozzuto, Antonella Bruzzese, Ettore Donadoni, Giulia Fini, Antonio Longo, Chiara Merlini, Chiara Nifosì, Christian Novak, Martina Orsini, Stefano Pendini, Nicolò Privileggio, Nicola Russi, Lina Scavuzzo, Federico Zanfi curators: Beatrice De Carli, Maddalena Falletti organized by: Politecncio di Milano, doctoral courses AUC + GPT info: [email protected] ............................................................................................................................................ The seminar is organised around the premise that research-by-design, as an exploration of feasible futures, is a powerful tool for investigation and an important medium aiming to set problems, programmes and future actions rather than to solely solve them. An urge to address the way how urbanism and landscape disciplines might tackle the relation between research and design is the starting point of the symposium, where the ambition is to give speakers the opportunity to inspire to significant critique through their projects and works. The seminar will bring together design practitioners and theorists with the goal of exploring the potential of different design methodologies in breaking the boundaries between analytical and projective thinking, while questioning the use of interpretative mappings, visions and scenarios as effective devices to approach research as a creative process.