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this is a map of London in 1800 that
time London was the largest city in the
world
he was overcrowded and poor citizens
were living surrounded by their own
fields when cholera broke through in
Soho in 1854 it was believed that
cholera was spreading by miasma in the
air one of its residents dr. young is
now decided to gather the location and
map the location of the wells in Soho
he also mapped the location of all the
known deaths caused by cholera when he
put these two streams of data together
he realized that there was the cluster
of deaths around one of the wells
in this case it was enough for dr. snow
to gather and evaluate data in order to
solve a problem 200 years earlier in
London in 1666 there was the great fire
for four days the city of London was in
flames after the fire the city was
completely destroyed and king charles ii
decided to ask a series of architects
and surveyors in order to present new
proposals for the city five proposals
were presented all of them had better
provision of green infrastructure better
road network and better lighting
conditions for the dwellings but at the
end none of them went through the city
was rebuilt exactly the same way why
they had data they knew the land
ownership they also had evidence of the
benefits of the new solutions but this
time it was not enough
because the land owners didn’t have any
instrument to negotiate and to agree it
was a common ground in urban design you
have parameters parameters belong to a
particular system that everybody agrees
parameters such as decibels can help us
to assess noise pollution but you also
have values values are what is worth for
someone in urban design different
communities and individuals might value
the space differently this problem is
still persist nowadays and despite we
have new technologies to capture much
more sophisticated data we are still in
the same problem
for example this image is built with
satellite data it can help us to
understand the status of coastal
ecosystems we also have activism mapping
citizens can today generate their own
data and upload it into the internet or
we can send life the city’s technology
like this monitoring a station of
pollution but despite all this
technology if we look at the report from
Yoona and Avatar in 2016 which is the
United Nations program for route 1
development it clearly says that our
organization model is unsustainable it
consumes too much land and is energy
intensive and this is because in our
current organization model there are no
instruments that measure individual
values against the common interest so I
wanted to tap into this problem and I
found that urban design practice
relational organism relational refers to
the way in which two or more things or
people come together
relational urban models are interactive
design toolkits interface platforms that
aim to share evidence on a design but
they’ll remain open so they serve as a
catalyst for negotiation and the
creation of share values I’m going to
give you a series of examples back to
China in 2013 we work on the urban issue
of the urban villages urban villages are
fragments of the city that result from
rural to urban migration some are very
in healthy but some fragments are very
life and they are very nice but what is
more important is that they are all
scattered across the city and they host
low pay workers
immigrants students in the city the
trend at that time was to demolish the
urban villages relocate this population
in the outskirts of the city creating
inequalities increasing insecurity and
making all these people to commute to
work for long hours local NGOs and
universities were trying to challenge
this model but it never got accepted
under the grounds that it was not
economically viable so we wanted to help
them to try to challenge this argument
and we built the first relational urban
model the relational orem model was the
platform in which you could input
demolitionist scenarios so we could
defend partial demolition personal
regeneration of urban villages and we
could input also urban blocks and
land-use distribution and we had output
the cost-benefit analysis and the urban
population mix
a traditional architectural practice
they will do three to four options we
were able to develop 16 iterations in
which we proved that some of the options
of partial demolition were economically
valuable in this case the relational
Ludwin model helped us to assess the
individual value of the business
developer against the common interest
I’m trying to find a common ground that
is more fair for the next example I’m
going to talk about is a completely
different scenario in this case we use
the relational urban model to try to
approach to the local communities and
try to understand what was the nature of
the problem we work in this project in
South Dublin the context is a park that
has strong problems of anti-social
behavior and street drinking there was a
local group of skaters and BMX riders
who try to evoke aid for the generation
of a skate park
but despite efforts from the ideas
architectural foundation and Dublin City
Council to build community engagement
the local community opposed to the
project so we wanted to generate
something positive with with this
conflict and the first thing we did was
to engage the local community the young
people into the design we built this
tool kit that was constituted by a
sandbox where the children and the
skaters could model and could explain
what they wanted the park to be then we
was captured by a Kinect and a projector
at the beginning they were a bit real
long-term especially the skaters but
then I was transparent they did it
themselves they did my job actually
so the other part of the community who
didn’t want the project was basically
because they didn’t want to scale their
park to be turned into concrete so we
convinced the local estate stakeholders
that if the stators were going to have a
skatepark they should have a beautiful
garden so with the earthworks we used to
extract to generate the skateboard with
the develop a series of grass mounds
where we could integrate a playground
for all and a garden I believe as a
designer and educator that everybody in
its own way designs we design the way we
look and we give meaning to things this
is the way we build our identity by
sharing the design with the local
skaters and children we build the
identity of the place together and doing
so I esteem a sense of belonging and a
capacity for cooperation in the last
project I’m going to talk about we try
to use the relational model to engage
the community about origin environmental
issues in the side and try to promote an
urban model that was more according to
the logics of the environment three
months ago I was approached by a
colleague from the architectural
Association in London he’s also one of
the owners of one of the oldest
architectural films in Nazareth in the
Middle East I remember one of the first
things he told me was in my homeland in
60 years it’s going to be so hot that
nobody will be able to live there
anymore so we worked together in this
development in the coast of the Sea of
Galilee
when we did the first research we
learned that actually the sea is trying
up and that is getting more and more
polluted due to the excess of nutrients
our first idea about the project was to
propose a system of ecology where we
could take out the water and run the
water through our site so it gets
oxygenated and it helps to clean the
delay but when we used the model to
assess our site we realized that
actually that all the morphology of the
ground was compromised so we couldn’t
run the water by gravity we convinced
the local stakeholders to recover the
identity of the crown and to try to
implement a new ecology that will help
the lake to perform better ten days ago
we were communicated that we got the
project and for me this has a much
bigger meaning it means that there is
still out there people no matter where
they come from from different
communities that they are willing to
come together to make a better planet
cities are currently designed mainly
following private interest we need
instruments and tools that are able to
measure individual values against common
interest this is my commitment as an
architect designer researcher and
educator I believe we need to lead
future generations in that direction
with entrepreneurship creativity and
imagination and maybe in the future with
camber garden pollution
or we can lunch share our backyard to
generate more fresh food for all I
believe we need to teach designers and
architects to use technology and
evidence in support of their design but
they should open it up to the people
listen to the people and design with
humanity and compassion the way I do it
is by using my relational urban models
which are nothing more than connecting
people with environments and people with
people the environment and the values
from other communities need to be part
of our own ethos our own shared identity
as humanity thank you
[Music]
this is a map of London in 1800 that
time London was the largest city in the
world
he was overcrowded and poor citizens
were living surrounded by their own
fields when cholera broke through in
Soho in 1854 it was believed that
cholera was spreading by miasma in the
air one of its residents dr. young is
now decided to gather the location and
map the location of the wells in Soho
he also mapped the location of all the
known deaths caused by cholera when he
put these two streams of data together
he realized that there was the cluster
of deaths around one of the wells
in this case it was enough for dr. snow
to gather and evaluate data in order to
solve a problem 200 years earlier in
London in 1666 there was the great fire
for four days the city of London was in
flames after the fire the city was
completely destroyed and king charles ii
decided to ask a series of architects
and surveyors in order to present new
proposals for the city five proposals
were presented all of them had better
provision of green infrastructure better
road network and better lighting
conditions for the dwellings but at the
end none of them went through the city
was rebuilt exactly the same way why
they had data they knew the land
ownership they also had evidence of the
benefits of the new solutions but this
time it was not enough
because the land owners didn’t have any
instrument to negotiate and to agree it
was a common ground in urban design you
have parameters parameters belong to a
particular system that everybody agrees
parameters such as decibels can help us
to assess noise pollution but you also
have values values are what is worth for
someone in urban design different
communities and individuals might value
the space differently this problem is
still persist nowadays and despite we
have new technologies to capture much
more sophisticated data we are still in
the same problem
for example this image is built with
satellite data it can help us to
understand the status of coastal
ecosystems we also have activism mapping
citizens can today generate their own
data and upload it into the internet or
we can send life the city’s technology
like this monitoring a station of
pollution but despite all this
technology if we look at the report from
Yoona and Avatar in 2016 which is the
United Nations program for route 1
development it clearly says that our
organization model is unsustainable it
consumes too much land and is energy
intensive and this is because in our
current organization model there are no
instruments that measure individual
values against the common interest so I
wanted to tap into this problem and I
found that urban design practice
relational organism relational refers to
the way in which two or more things or
people come together
relational urban models are interactive
design toolkits interface platforms that
aim to share evidence on a design but
they’ll remain open so they serve as a
catalyst for negotiation and the
creation of share values I’m going to
give you a series of examples back to
China in 2013 we work on the urban issue
of the urban villages urban villages are
fragments of the city that result from
rural to urban migration some are very
in healthy but some fragments are very
life and they are very nice but what is
more important is that they are all
scattered across the city and they host
low pay workers
immigrants students in the city the
trend at that time was to demolish the
urban villages relocate this population
in the outskirts of the city creating
inequalities increasing insecurity and
making all these people to commute to
work for long hours local NGOs and
universities were trying to challenge
this model but it never got accepted
under the grounds that it was not
economically viable so we wanted to help
them to try to challenge this argument
and we built the first relational urban
model the relational orem model was the
platform in which you could input
demolitionist scenarios so we could
defend partial demolition personal
regeneration of urban villages and we
could input also urban blocks and
land-use distribution and we had output
the cost-benefit analysis and the urban
population mix
a traditional architectural practice
they will do three to four options we
were able to develop 16 iterations in
which we proved that some of the options
of partial demolition were economically
valuable in this case the relational
Ludwin model helped us to assess the
individual value of the business
developer against the common interest
I’m trying to find a common ground that
is more fair for the next example I’m
going to talk about is a completely
different scenario in this case we use
the relational urban model to try to
approach to the local communities and
try to understand what was the nature of
the problem we work in this project in
South Dublin the context is a park that
has strong problems of anti-social
behavior and street drinking there was a
local group of skaters and BMX riders
who try to evoke aid for the generation
of a skate park
but despite efforts from the ideas
architectural foundation and Dublin City
Council to build community engagement
the local community opposed to the
project so we wanted to generate
something positive with with this
conflict and the first thing we did was
to engage the local community the young
people into the design we built this
tool kit that was constituted by a
sandbox where the children and the
skaters could model and could explain
what they wanted the park to be then we
was captured by a Kinect and a projector
at the beginning they were a bit real
long-term especially the skaters but
then I was transparent they did it
themselves they did my job actually
so the other part of the community who
didn’t want the project was basically
because they didn’t want to scale their
park to be turned into concrete so we
convinced the local estate stakeholders
that if the stators were going to have a
skatepark they should have a beautiful
garden so with the earthworks we used to
extract to generate the skateboard with
the develop a series of grass mounds
where we could integrate a playground
for all and a garden I believe as a
designer and educator that everybody in
its own way designs we design the way we
look and we give meaning to things this
is the way we build our identity by
sharing the design with the local
skaters and children we build the
identity of the place together and doing
so I esteem a sense of belonging and a
capacity for cooperation in the last
project I’m going to talk about we try
to use the relational model to engage
the community about origin environmental
issues in the side and try to promote an
urban model that was more according to
the logics of the environment three
months ago I was approached by a
colleague from the architectural
Association in London he’s also one of
the owners of one of the oldest
architectural films in Nazareth in the
Middle East I remember one of the first
things he told me was in my homeland in
60 years it’s going to be so hot that
nobody will be able to live there
anymore so we worked together in this
development in the coast of the Sea of
Galilee
when we did the first research we
learned that actually the sea is trying
up and that is getting more and more
polluted due to the excess of nutrients
our first idea about the project was to
propose a system of ecology where we
could take out the water and run the
water through our site so it gets
oxygenated and it helps to clean the
delay but when we used the model to
assess our site we realized that
actually that all the morphology of the
ground was compromised so we couldn’t
run the water by gravity we convinced
the local stakeholders to recover the
identity of the crown and to try to
implement a new ecology that will help
the lake to perform better ten days ago
we were communicated that we got the
project and for me this has a much
bigger meaning it means that there is
still out there people no matter where
they come from from different
communities that they are willing to
come together to make a better planet
cities are currently designed mainly
following private interest we need
instruments and tools that are able to
measure individual values against common
interest this is my commitment as an
architect designer researcher and
educator I believe we need to lead
future generations in that direction
with entrepreneurship creativity and
imagination and maybe in the future with
camber garden pollution
or we can lunch share our backyard to
generate more fresh food for all I
believe we need to teach designers and
architects to use technology and
evidence in support of their design but
they should open it up to the people
listen to the people and design with
humanity and compassion the way I do it
is by using my relational urban models
which are nothing more than connecting
people with environments and people with
people the environment and the values
from other communities need to be part
of our own ethos our own shared identity
as humanity thank you
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