Urban Architecture as Connective-Collective Intelligence. Which Spaces of Interaction?

Andreina Maahsen-Milan, Margot Pellegrino, Luigi Oliva and Marco Simonetti
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Andreina Maahsen-Milan: Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Via Risorgimento 5, Bologna 40126, Italy
Margot Pellegrino: Centre de Recherche sur l'Habitat (CRH), UMR-CNRS, 7218–Lavue, France
Luigi Oliva: Department of Architecture, Design, Urban Planning, University of Sassari, Palazzo Pou Salit, Piazza Duomo 6, Alghero (SS) 07041, Italy
Marco Simonetti: Energy Department, Polytechnic of Turin, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino 10129, Italy

Sustainability, 2013, vol. 5, issue 7, 1-16

Abstract: During the twentieth century, with the advent of industrial society and globalization, the language of planning changed according to the shifts in construction and use of physical space. By borrowing terms and spatial forms from biology and cybernetics, industrial society and globalization increased the original semantic connotations. Moving from cognitive sciences, this paper outlines the definition of architecture as connective-collective intelligence and presents its implication in urban design. Spontaneous and commercial initiatives are redefining the communication form of urban life, affecting the procedures of the transmission of traditional knowledge. This approach to building environment is moving towards a complex multichannel interaction, involving both the individual and the collective experiences of space and technology. In describing some signs of that process, the authors outline new features that are changing the concept of sustainability in urban design.

Keywords: urban architecture; sustainable developments; city as a “complex adaptive system”; thinkering; uncertain models; collective mind (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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