Schedule – MIAW 2018

Monday 15 January
15.00 - 17.00 - Hall Rogers

Opening Seminar 
Welcome and Presentation

Ilaria Valente 
Dean, School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction 
Engineering

MIAW Theme Introduction
Carolina Pacchi Professor of Urban Planning, Polimi
Filippo Orsini, Gennaro Postiglione, Alessandro Rocca 
MIAW scientific committee

Keynote Lecture
Albena Yaneva University of Manchester, UK
Five Ways to Make Architecture Political

17.00 – 19.00 (WS rooms)
Brief on WS organization

Tuesday 16 January
9.15 - 17.15 Workshop and area survey
17.30 - 18.10 Speed Talk 2x20’- Room III.B
with Paulo David Abreu / Geir Brendeland chairman Gennaro Postiglione

Wednesday 17 January
9.15 - 13.00 Workshop
13.30 - 14.10 Speed Talk 2x20’Room III.B
with Sebastian Adamo / Bostjan Vuga chairman Alessandro Rocca
14.30 - 19.15 Workshop

Thursday 18 January
9.15 - 13.00 / 14.30 - 19.15 Workshop
13.30 - 14.10 - Room III.B
Lecture by Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright(Baracco+Wright Architects)
Robin Boyd: Spatial Continuity
Introduction by Gennaro Postiglione

Friday 19 January
9.15 - 13.00 / 14.30 - 19.15 Workshop
13.30 - 13.50 Speed Talk 1x20’ - Room III.B
with Luis Basabe Montalvo, chairman Bertrando Bonfantini

Monday 22 January
9.15 - 13.00 / 14.30 - 19.15 Workshop
13.30 - 14.10 Speed Talk 2x20’ - Hall Rogers
with Neven Fuchs / Georg Reinberg chairman Marco Bovati

Tuesday 23 January 
9.15 - 19.15 Workshop
 
Wednesday 24 January 
9.15 -19.15 Workshop 
16.15 - 18.15 Project preview
with 
Simona Collarini ( Head of Urban Planning, Comune di Milano)
Corinna Morandi (vice-President, Milanese Architects' Association)
Anna Prat (Comune di Milano, Piano periferie)
Demetrio Scopelliti (Advisor for Urban Planning, Comune di Milano)

Thursday 25 January 
Closing Seminar & Finissage 
9.15 - 15.30 Exhibition Setup, Building 11, 1st floor
16.00-18.00 Talks and Drinks
with 
Ilaria Valente 
Dean, School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction
Engineering
Gabriele Pasqui
Head of Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
Filippo Orsini, Gennaro Postiglione, Alessandro Rocca 
Miaw Scientific Committee

MIAW 2018 Program Booklet PDF

 

LIVING PERIPHERY Architecture as Public Space    

Since 2014, every Miaw edition focused on a specific area, theme or question related with the architectural and urban transformation of Milan, so that the outcoming projects were a relevant contribution for a vision of the future city.
In this edition 2018, Miaw studios will concentrate around some strategic urban areas, as part of the regeneration program of the peripheries, both in the sphere of academic research (Ri-formare Milano – Periferie), and political programming at the local, national (Piano delle Periferie), and international (C-40 Reinventing Cities) levels.
The general theme of this edition is “architecture in periphery”, and the question is “how can architecture improve public space and relations in places that suffer a lack of sociality, urbanity and formal order”.
The role of public space − that belongs to and defines community life at a both real and symbolic level − has clearly taken center stage in the debate on the critical issues of the contemporary city, and will be central to the workshop program.
The issues now affecting the development of urban space demonstrate the obsolescence of the traditional techniques and instruments of urban planning and design: the management of environments that are both physically and socially degraded is calling now for new solutions.

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