Passages. Architecture for Flowing and Connecting Spaces

Passages aims to investigate notions of space for mobility in contemporary architectural discourses. How architectural design can contribute to reimagining spaces to overcome functionalist engineering limitations of mobility spaces as something more than mere built objects?
This conference aims to unveil the potential of architectural design and research tools to enrich unconventional discussions about mobility, its spatial and experiential qualities. Although mobility is intended as a framework, the discourse focuses on the spaces above, below, in-between, and to the sides of the ordinary boundaries of architectures of flow, and on the spaces of new forms of movement.

6 Conference Sessions over 3 Days:
52 contributions, delving through the key-questions of Intersection, Collateral and Evolution.

3 Keynote Lectures
Holy Highway – by Gilles Delalex, Studio Muoto (FR)
Time and the City – by Mads Birgens, Studio COBE (DK)
Birnham Wood – by Adriaan Geuze, West8 (NL)

Final Roundtable
Debating on “Comparing Forms and Spaces of Contemporary Mobility” with Alessandro Rocca DAStU, Chair; Alfonso Femia Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia; Sara Favargiotti UniTN, DICAM; Beatrice Moretti UniGE, DAD.

Organizing Partners: DAStU, ENSA PM/ LIAT, TU Delft
Supporting Partners: AUID PhD Program, MOST PNRR, CRAFT, Ambasciata di Francia in Italia, Institut Francais (Cassini Program)
Media Partners: EAAE, AHRA, EAHN, ARENA

Responsabili: Raffaella Cavallaro, Nicolò Chierichetti

Contatti: passages-dastu@polimi.it