Tuesday 13th of May 2014

Maurizio Carta
Lecture: RE-imagining Urbanism in the Age of Metamorphosis

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

MAURIZIO CARTA
Maurizio Carta is an architect and full professor of urbanism and regional planning at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo. He’s the head of the MSc in Urban and Regional planning (University of Palermo). He has been member of Italian Society of Urban Planners Steering Committee (2000-03). He is senior expert in strategic planning, urban design and local development and he was the author of several urban, landscape and strategic plans in Italy. He is the responsible of the “Smart Planning Lab” for improving the smartness of cities and communities. He was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University of New York (1998) and he was visiting professor or keynote speaker in several universities and institutions. He is author of several publications, among the most recent: Next City: culture city (Roma, Meltemi, 2004), Creative City (List, Barcelona,2007), Governare l’evoluzione (Milano, Franco Angeli, 2009) Re-think, Re-load, Re-cycle: Mediterranean Urban Metamorphosis (Le Carré Bleu, 2013), Reimagining Urbanism (ListLab, Barcelona, 2014).

image credits: Reimagining Urbanism Treatment: we need a new education of vision for a new ecology of mind (processing of a scene from “A Clockwork Orange”)

IAAC is proud to announce the Spring Lecture Series 2014:

22nd April 2014

BENJAMIN BARBER

Political theorist

Author of “If Mayors Ruled the World” – New York

25th April 2014

EVA FRANCH

Architect

Director of Storefront for Art

and Architecture – New York

29th April 2014

PHILIPPE RAHM

Architect

Principal in Philippe Rahm architects – Paris

8th MAY 2014

ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG

Architect

Principal in Urban-Think Tank

Professor at ETH – Zürich

13th May 2014

MAURIZIO CARTA

Architect and Urbanist

Professor at the Università degli Studi – Palermo

15th May 2014

ECOSISTEMA URBANO

Group of Architects

and Urban Designers – Madrid

22nd May 2014

EUROPEAN ARTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

Tangibility and Sense of Presence through Physical Interaction – Visual and Sound Performances

of Haptic Interfaces, Super Collider and Max MSP

29th May 2014

JOHN PALMESINO

Architect and Urbanist

Principal in Territorial Agency – London

26th June 2014

WINY MAAS

Architect and Urbanist

Principal in MVRDV – Rotterdam

Events supported by Moritz, Barcelona