Designing the uninhabitable. Reflections on the space of relationships

ABSTRACT

Thinking about the post-Covid city represents an opportunity for a reflection that, starting from the differences inherent in each city, from the knowledge of its history, of its past, critically analyses the conceptual fracture operated by the globalization. When asking about the way of inhabiting a space whether private or public, is necessary to read the opposing levels that the city is built on. The “ability to inhabit” is therefore constituted as an immanent quality of places, proposing solutions that establish degrees of “collaboration” between building and urban space and forms of relationship that the contemporary city seems no longer able of producing therefore only by developing a “prescient” environmental vision and recovering the ethical need to imagine the city beyond contingency. © 2020 Festival Architettura Edizioni. All rights reserved.