ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar 

Prof. Marco Trisciuoglio

(Politecnico, Turin)

 

 

 

October, 19. h 6pm

Palazzo nuovo (piano terra, Sala Lauree Ex-Lettere)

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Online

 

https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=m82b8a2ee329987b9133fc9902e73aa23

 

What we talk about when we talk about Urban Morphology?

 

Human settlements, as anthropological products, show to have their own form. Reading and interpretating those forms is an important phase in urban analysis that preludes the urban design (communities of human beings, with their practices, their behaves, their interests, their dreams, their conflicts, move on a physical stage that is made by space and by stones, bricks, wood, glass, steel and concrete). The Italian school of Urban Morphology links the form of the city to the tectonics of buildings and to the interpretation of topography, passing through the taxonomic tool of the idea of “architectural type”. A first approach to these topics can be developed introducing the studies by Saverio Muratori and Gianfranco Caniggia (between the Fifties and the Eighties of the 20th sentury) and describing the paradigm of “transitional morphologies”, able nowadays to describe the urban dynamics of urban forms.

 

Marco Trisciuoglio (1966), is an architect and an urban designer, who studies the idea of city as a collective architecture and as a collective construction (of buildings, spaces and symbols) within the context of the Italian cultural background. He also received an education as cultural anthropologist and he is expert in the history of mentalities and ideas (the idea of landscape, memory and modernity in architecture, and the idea of cultural heritage).

He is Full Professor in ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design. He is Head of the PhD Program ARCHITECTURE. HISTORY AND PROJECT at Politecnico di Torino.

He is Visiting Professor in some Chinese universities and from 2015 and Guest Professor (since 2018) at the School of Architecture in SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY NANJING, where he is also Professor at the Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School directed by David Leatherbarrow (Pennsylvania University).

He spent last 10 years in studying the morphology of human settlements in urban and rural China. He is actually leading, as Co-Director, the Joint Research Unit TRANSITIONAL MORPHOLOGIES, established in June 2018 between Politecnico di Torino and Southeast University Nanjing. The Joint Research Unit takes part of the ADVANCED RURAL AND URBAN RESEARCH CENTER established by MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Southeast University Nanjing together with ETH Zürich in 2017.

His publications can be organized in five different fields: past and future of urban forms, theories and techniques of architectural and urban design, the idea of landscape and its relationship with human culture and settlement, built environment, heritage and design of existing artefacts.

 

 

 

ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) is a periodic philosophical seminar organized by the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin and the PhD Program FINO.

Coordinators:

Prof. Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin). 

Prof. Federico Vercellone (University of Turin). 

 

Members:

Prof. Carlo Serra (University of Turin/University of Calabria)

Dr. Alberto Martinengo (University of Turin)

Dr. Paolo Furia (University of Turin)

Dr. Lisa Giombini (University Rome 3)

Dr. Gregorio Tenti (University of Turin)

Dr. Amalia Salvestrini (Laboratoire d'études sur les monothéismes, Paris)

Dr. Francesca Monateri (Pisa, Scuola Normale)

Dr. Francesca Perotto (FINO)

Dr. Ivan Quartesan (FINO)

Dr. Sofia Boz (University of Padova)

Dr. Leonardo Pietropaolo (Università di Torino)

 

 

ART addresses different topics of the contemporary debate in Aesthetics: philosophy of beauty, philosophy of the arts, theory of sensory experience, philosophy of image and imagination, and history of aesthetics.

ART is supported by:
Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulla Morfologia Francesco Moiso (CIM)
Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale di Logica, Linguaggio e Cognizione (LLC)
Centro Studi Arti della Modernità

Centro Studi Filosofico-religiosi "Luigi Pareyson"
Laboratorio di Ontologia (Labont)

 

ART is sponsored by: 
Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE) 
European Society for Aesthetics (ESA)