Recoding infrastructure networking session

20/11/2020, h. 13:15 – 14:15
Virtual Event – www.urbanmining.it

The contemporary city is dotted with large infrastructure that allows its accessibility and operation. Today, roads, railways, bridges, overpasses, underpasses, parking lots, but also service stations, sewages and telecommunications networks, form the very backbone of the city, often more than squares, roads and markets. Static and unchanged over the years, these mono-functional artefacts require a new critical approach inside the city regeneration agenda. The effects of climate change, the urban heat island phenomenon, the air pollution, the population density increasing due to migratory movements, the cost of materials and the scarce accessibility of resources, impose a change in the programming codes of the urban areas that involve directly the infrastructure. Using as case study the research UNPark, funded by the social engagement and responsibility programme Polisocial Award 2019, the Network Session proposes a critical analysis of the processes in progress to collect and learn about new tools that allow to frame these changes in a wider picture of urban transformation, which takes into account the social aspects of the re-signification of public heritage.