Aa. Vv., Inhabiting the future … after Copenhagen. International Conference Proceedings Naples 13-14 December 2010, CLEAN, Napoli, 2010

This meeting starts a series of biannual international workshops entitled "Inhabiting the future" that the Department of Urban Design and Planning of Federico II University of Naples promotes with the goal of comparing researches, urban plans and designs concerning fundamental topics related to the enhancement of human environment, social space design and territorial governance. This first meeting is focused on the ecological problem, a subject that is relevant for researchers and practitioners in any field, whose importance is increased in the last year due to the UN attention to climate change. Nowadays, the progress in knowledge is mostly pursued through diversification of expertise and increasing specialization. Of course, such an approach has significantly contributed to the growth of knowledge and abilities of mankind. However, it is also clear that this segmentation and separation undermines the unity of thinking which is an essential aspect of human identity. From this perspective, the broad response to our call for papers is worth to be remarked, as it comes from scholars whose interests and disciplines are hardly in connection with each other, and suggests us that the basic themes at the core of our living indeed require converging efforts and intents and bring us back to build a shared perspective.
The proposed theme aims at gathering the thoughts of those who assume that future scenarios will irreversibly change the characters of the city, its history and architecture, with a particular attention to physical and immaterial territories of European and Italian tradition. On the other side, it also collects the reflections of those that instead consider the claim to something new, incomparable and never seen as one of the worst contemporary myths, which produces disorder and desegregation in strong identity contexts, and can be remedied only by going back to the core of our profession, that is transforming chaos into order, by refining skills acquired through experiences. Besides giving a contribution to specific topics, the goal and the effort of this workshop is hence that of opening a debate to discuss contemporary inhabiting issues exploiting reasons, instruments and objectives of the scientific research.

(from the Introduction by the coordinator Francesco Domenico Moccia)
 

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