Research group The research group Designing the contemporary city aims at investigating the current transformation of the city, observing the many changes related to current challenges. The group focus on defining methods for reading and intervening in the existing context, on reusing and reactivating abandoned areas and buildings. The specific competence of the group moves across disciplines: architecture and urban design, heritage, planning and evaluation, culture and art.
The constant transformation of our cities, looking at the context in the North of Sweden, are leading us researchers to intervene in the existing context questioning the possibilities and opportunities in relation to reuse and in intervening in the As found condition.
The focus of the group is on urban development and the role of architecture as a discipline to define and determine the way we, as human beings, inhabit and relate to the space.
Spatial configuration of the city is to be related to the many challenges of the current society and look at future perspectives to be adaptable and open to these changes. The city is considered as the natural living environment for human and non-human inhabitants, and therefore this ecological balance must be considered as central.
The topic of reuse, adaptive reuse, urban regeneration, reactivation, involves architecture as a discipline that is able to define the methos to intervene in the definition of specific tools to read and intervene - through design – in the contemporary city, starting from a marked canvas and not from a tabula rasa.
The researchers are actively participating in the organization as members of the scientific committee of the EURAU24 conference.
The research group relates to two of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities; 13, Climate Action.
Marie Kraft – Lecturer Malmö University
Orfina Fatigato – Ass. Professor, University of Naples Federico II
David Ortega – PhD candidate DPA ETSAM Madrid
Ozan Avci – Ass. Professor & Head of Deprtment MEF University
Javier Sanchez Merina – Associate Professor Alicante University
