Papers by Arianna Luisa Nicoletta Scaioli
Research in Architectural Urban Interior Design. AUID Yearbook 2024, 2024
Gendered Bodies. Feminist Approaches to Spatial Design
Athens Journal of Architecture, 2024
Collective and cooperative living; a free, nonhierarchical space to express their individuality. ... more Collective and cooperative living; a free, nonhierarchical space to express their individuality. These are some of the characters that emerged in feminist and women-centred utopias. La cité des dames by C. de Pizan (1405) and Herland by C. Perkins Gilman (1915) are two literary texts that, far in space and time, reflect on the modes of inhabiting spaces, in a fictional way, through the construction of an ideal milieu. Charged with a transformational power that allows them to go beyond a mere narration and become space, they constitute a tool for these women to critique the hierarchical living which reproduced (and still reproduces) gender roles. However, "What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?" through this question, Dolores Hayden condensed the lessons learnt from several built experiences of collective and collaborative housing that aimed at freeing women going from an androcentric to a gendered city. This contribution becomes part of the discussion about the spatialization-or translation-of gender equality into spaces and architectures by focusing specifically on women's collective living at different scales: the building, the block/complex, and the neighbourhood. These projects will be presented focusing on the role of architecture becoming a form of emancipation for women.
CITTÀ CHE SI ADATTANO? ADAPTIVE CITIES?, 2024
This historiographic work shows how women have been significantly hidden from history, shading th... more This historiographic work shows how women have been significantly hidden from history, shading their involvement in practice and academia behind a male architect’s effigy. The contribution exam-ines Yasmeen Lari’s architectural work showing a humanitarian and socially responsible attitude. The focus is a critical re-reading of her architecture and activities through a gender lens, focusing on the role of women in this process.
Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture
The contribution presents the results of a design driven research about the topic of co-evolution... more The contribution presents the results of a design driven research about the topic of co-evolution between space, nature and society, focusing on a Milanese fringe, in which human activities and natural capital co-exist with no dialogue. The project assumes the new European Bauhaus as a framework, reflecting upon the spatialization of theoretical instances aimed at the physical impacts of a co-evolutionary transformation. The output of the research is the promotion of design actions for a resilient landscape prototype, linking productive activities to natural and social capital, through circular and Nature-based solutions. Thus, attention is given to spatial configurations that aim to increase biodiversity in human settlement, through the design of ecological corridors, and to inclusiveness, in the redesign of former industrial facilities and local community habitats.
I prototipi di Yasmeen Lari: diffusione e valore sociale di due moduli abitativi
TERRITORIO
Il contributo propone la rilettura critica di due prototipi abitativi di Yasmeen Lari, rivelatori... more Il contributo propone la rilettura critica di due prototipi abitativi di Yasmeen Lari, rivelatori di un approccio progettuale trasversale capace di integrare nozioni di giustizia sociale e ambientale, democratizzare la concezione di spazio e costruzione, traducendo e trovando sintesi nelle architetture progettate dall'architetta pakistana e nella loro diffusione. Un primo fuoco riflette su matericità e riproducibilità dei prototipi abitativi, sottolineando la complementarità tra le esperienze fisiche e digitali. Un secondo fuoco riflette sul potenziale di queste architetture nel diventare uno strumento di empowerment per le donne, sviluppando la tematica dell'integrazione in una prospettiva gender-sensitive. In ultima analisi il testo analizza l'impatto di queste architetture minime per la comunità che le accoglie.
Urban Corporis-To the Bones, 2023
This paper delves into the feminist critique of architecture and explores the transformative pote... more This paper delves into the feminist critique of architecture and explores the transformative potential of in-between spaces in reshaping the built environment. By adopting a feminist perspective, the project challenges the notion of a neutral user and seeks to design spaces that consider the needs of marginalized groups. The study focuses on the project "Making Space in Dalston" by muf architecture/art, which emphasizes collectivity, alterity, and performativity in the design process. The in-between spaces are seen as complex, relational realms that bind the city together and offer opportunities for emancipation and recognition. The paper highlights the significance of living bodies in spatial narratives and emphasizes the temporal aspects of design. This research contributes to the ongoing debate on feminist perspectives in contemporary design and advocates for more inclusive and equitable cities. Arianna Scaioli Architect, PhD Candidate in Architectural Urban and Interior Design at Polytechnic of Milan, DAStU (2021), has been a visiting researcher at Brookfield Sustainability Institute, CA (2023). Her research deals with gender-sensitive approach as a design tool focusing on transition spaces between the domestic and public domains.
Design and circular economy. Architectures that regenerate the built fabric
Although the circular economy has occupied a crucial place in the development agendas of industri... more Although the circular economy has occupied a crucial place in the development agendas of industrialized countries in recent years, the construction sector still seems far from a mature understanding of the cultural dimensions related to the notion of circularity since, until now, its focus has been mainly on improving technological solutions. However, the circular economy opens up new operational frontiers beyond the scale of the construction detail. It embraces more complex social and cultural fields that ultimately question the changing relationship between man and inhabited space. The article assumes this perspective and examines the possible implications of circular logics’ spatial organizations at larger scales that have a great impact on settlement forms, proposing a critical comparison between two case studies characterized by two built fabrics with different densities. The first one is the regeneration of the Ilot de l’Arc de Triomphe district (high density and compactness),...
Ri-Vista. Ricerche per la progettazione del paesaggio, 2023
Abstract - English The contribution presents the results of a design-driven research about the to... more Abstract - English The contribution presents the results of a design-driven research about the topic of co-evolution between space, nature and society, focusing on a Milanese fringe, in which human activities and natural capital co-exist with no dialogue. The project assumes the new European Bauhaus as a framework, reflecting upon the spatialization of theoretical instances aimed at the physical impacts of a co-evolutionary transformation. The output of the research is the promotion of design actions for a resilient landscape prototype, linking productive activities to natural and social capital, through circular and Nature-based solutions. Thus, attention is given to spatial configurations that aim to increase biodiversity in human settlement, through the design of ecological corridors, and to inclusiveness, in the redesign of former industrial facilities and local community habitats.
Abstract - Italiano Il contributo presenta i risultati di una ricerca orientata al progetto sul tema della coevoluzione fra spazio, natura e società, concentrandosi su una frangia urbana di Milano in cui le attività umane e il capitale naturale co-esistono senza dialogo. Il progetto assume così il framework del New European Bauhaus, interpretandone la spazializzazione delle istanze proposte, cercando di restituire le ricadute fisiche di una trasformazione che tende a processi di co-evoluzione. L’esito della ricerca è la promozione di azioni progettuali atte ad un prototipo di paesaggio resiliente, connettendo le attività produttive al capitale naturale e sociale, attraverso l’uso di soluzioni circolari e nature-based. Quindi, si pone attenzione su configurazioni spaziali che hanno l’obiettivo di incrementare la biodiversità nell’insediamento umano, attraverso la progettazione di corridoi ecologici, e all’inclusività, nel ridisegno degli ex impianti industriali e degli habitat delle comunità locali.
Ri-Vista. Ricerche per la progettazione del paesaggio, 2021
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Il progetto dello spazio pubblico contemporaneo può accogliere le nuove istanze della so... more Abstract
Il progetto dello spazio pubblico contemporaneo può accogliere le nuove istanze della società contemporanea, incorporando valori e necessità proprie dell’epoca attuale. Il contributo ha lo scopo di presentare la possibilità di un approccio trasversale, in cui gli ideali di una società ecologica ed equa siano integrati nello spazio e nelle sue fasi di progettazione.
Questo metodo è disvelato attraverso l’utilizzo di nature-based solutions e gender-sensitive approach, applicati all’interno di processi di rigenerazione urbana di aree marginali, considerate come contesti fertili, in cui si denota una sovrapposizione di problematiche ambientali legate al cambiamento climatico e disuguaglianze di genere. Attraverso la presentazione di due casi studio, verranno quindi mostrate delle soluzioni applicative delle strategie menzionate, in cui il progetto non è subordinato alla sola costruzione della forma, bensì intreccia valori etici ed estetici nella costruzione di uno spazio collettivo.
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The design of the contemporary public space can include the new needs of society, incorporating the values of the current era. The contribution aims to present the possibility of a transversal approach, in which the ideals of an ecological and fair society are integrated into space and in its
design phases.
This method is revealed through the use of nature-based solutions and gender-sensitive approach, applied within urban regeneration processes of marginal areas, considered fertile contexts, in which there is an overlap of environmental problems linked to climate change and gender inequalities. The article will display the application of the aforementioned strategies through the presentation of two case studies, in which the project is not subordinated to the production of the form but rather intertwines ethical and aesthetic values in the construction of common space.
AGATHÓN - International Journal of Architecture, Art and Design, 2021
Although the circular economy has occupied a crucial place in the development agendas of industri... more Although the circular economy has occupied a crucial place in the development agendas of industrialized countries in recent years, the construction sector still seems far from a mature understanding of the cultural dimensions related to the notion of circularity since, until now, its focus has been mainly on improving technological solutions. However, the circular economy opens up new operational frontiers beyond the scale of the construction detail. It embraces more complex social and cultural fields that ultimately question the changing relationship between man and inhabited space. The article assumes this perspective and examines the possible implications of circular logics’ spatial organizations at larger scales that have a great impact on settlement forms, proposing a critical comparison between two case studies characterized by two built fabrics with different densities. The first one is the regeneration of the Ilot de l’Arc de Triomphe district (high density and compactness), and the second one is the transformation of Contrada Bricconi (low density and rarefaction). The two design experiences ensure a second life to inhabited artifacts and soils.
OFFICINA, 2021
Anteferma Edizioni, Conegliano, ISSN pdf 2532-1218; ISSN 2384-9029 www.anteferma.it https://issuu... more Anteferma Edizioni, Conegliano, ISSN pdf 2532-1218; ISSN 2384-9029 www.anteferma.it https://issuu.com/officina-artec/docs/officina_32_web Abstract The crisis into the void. Considering the city, and its buildings, as a place of union of physical and socio-economic relationships, what happens when one of these aspects is missing? In light of the current pandemic, the real relationship space that characterized part of the urban and architectural composition clashes with the regulatory provisions, in order to ensure physical (but not social) “times of crisis”, for cities and their inhabitants, looking into these spaces of relationship, which re-read their raison d’être in a term of forced virtual relationships.
Officina n.32 - VUOTO, 2021
Anteferma Edizioni, Conegliano, ISSN pdf 2532-1218; ISSN 2384-9029 www.anteferma.it
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The crisis into the void.
Considering the city, and its buildings, as a place of union of physical and socio-economic relationships, what happens when one of these aspects is missing? In light of the current pandemic, the real relationship space that characterized part of the urban and architectural composition clashes with the regulatory provisions, in order to ensure physical (but not social) “times of crisis”, for cities and their inhabitants, looking into these spaces of relationship, which re-read their raison d’être in a term of forced virtual relationships.
Urban Corporis X - Unexpected, 2021
Anteferma Edizioni, Conegliano, Italy ISBN: 978-88-32050-97-4 (printed version) ISBN: 978-88-3205... more Anteferma Edizioni, Conegliano, Italy ISBN: 978-88-32050-97-4 (printed version) ISBN: 978-88-32050-96-7 (digital version) www.anteferma.it
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The contemporary urban model, globally spread and characterized by a high housing density, from different perspectives is considered more “sustainable”, and therefore to be pursued, compared to an extensive development connected to low-density urban development ideologies. Indeed, phenomena such as urban sprawl become degenerations of an urban model that cannot be controlled and defined as a whole. High density avoids excessive soil consumption, minimizing the use of the car for travelling, and, consequently, the reduction in the emission of polluting substances. However, the health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the shortcomings of a high-density settlement morphology. Since social distancing has become part of everyday life, following the health emergency, the most detectable effects are social. On the one hand, if the traditional urban convivial spaces are deserted (going towards an almost total cancellation of physical social relationships) on the other hand we are witnessing a multiplication and explosion of types of urban sociality, developed through new forms of expression and use of spaces. Therefore, this contingent situation offers the possibility to reflect on the role and importance of all those often forgotten spaces. Indeed, they have returned taking a key role within our quarantined lives: balconies, terraces, roofs, landings. Hanging spaces have become elements of sociality, bringing into dialogue a living microcosm with an external macrocosm, currently extraneous and detached. The paper intends to survey projects of the international architectural panorama that have been able to interpret these spaces with a new social vision. This vision does not lead to the oblivion of these relationships’ physical and spatial dimension but compares them with the new instances, and even emergencies, of the city of the future.
Books by Arianna Luisa Nicoletta Scaioli
Erbario. Una guida del selvatico a Milano, 2022
Erbario è un progetto del gruppo di lavoro del Politecnico di Milano che partecipa alle attività ... more Erbario è un progetto del gruppo di lavoro del Politecnico di Milano che partecipa alle attività dell’Unità di ricerca dell’Università Iuav di Venezia. Il volume è una guida ragionata ai luoghi del selvatico che popolano la storia e la geografia milanese, costruita a partire dall’osservazione della realtà di ogni giorno, dalla riscoperta di luoghi smarriti e dalla lettura di alcune ipotesi progettuali, interpretative e trasformative che riguardano la selva urbana.
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Papers by Arianna Luisa Nicoletta Scaioli
Abstract - Italiano Il contributo presenta i risultati di una ricerca orientata al progetto sul tema della coevoluzione fra spazio, natura e società, concentrandosi su una frangia urbana di Milano in cui le attività umane e il capitale naturale co-esistono senza dialogo. Il progetto assume così il framework del New European Bauhaus, interpretandone la spazializzazione delle istanze proposte, cercando di restituire le ricadute fisiche di una trasformazione che tende a processi di co-evoluzione. L’esito della ricerca è la promozione di azioni progettuali atte ad un prototipo di paesaggio resiliente, connettendo le attività produttive al capitale naturale e sociale, attraverso l’uso di soluzioni circolari e nature-based. Quindi, si pone attenzione su configurazioni spaziali che hanno l’obiettivo di incrementare la biodiversità nell’insediamento umano, attraverso la progettazione di corridoi ecologici, e all’inclusività, nel ridisegno degli ex impianti industriali e degli habitat delle comunità locali.
Il progetto dello spazio pubblico contemporaneo può accogliere le nuove istanze della società contemporanea, incorporando valori e necessità proprie dell’epoca attuale. Il contributo ha lo scopo di presentare la possibilità di un approccio trasversale, in cui gli ideali di una società ecologica ed equa siano integrati nello spazio e nelle sue fasi di progettazione.
Questo metodo è disvelato attraverso l’utilizzo di nature-based solutions e gender-sensitive approach, applicati all’interno di processi di rigenerazione urbana di aree marginali, considerate come contesti fertili, in cui si denota una sovrapposizione di problematiche ambientali legate al cambiamento climatico e disuguaglianze di genere. Attraverso la presentazione di due casi studio, verranno quindi mostrate delle soluzioni applicative delle strategie menzionate, in cui il progetto non è subordinato alla sola costruzione della forma, bensì intreccia valori etici ed estetici nella costruzione di uno spazio collettivo.
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The design of the contemporary public space can include the new needs of society, incorporating the values of the current era. The contribution aims to present the possibility of a transversal approach, in which the ideals of an ecological and fair society are integrated into space and in its
design phases.
This method is revealed through the use of nature-based solutions and gender-sensitive approach, applied within urban regeneration processes of marginal areas, considered fertile contexts, in which there is an overlap of environmental problems linked to climate change and gender inequalities. The article will display the application of the aforementioned strategies through the presentation of two case studies, in which the project is not subordinated to the production of the form but rather intertwines ethical and aesthetic values in the construction of common space.
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Abstract
The crisis into the void.
Considering the city, and its buildings, as a place of union of physical and socio-economic relationships, what happens when one of these aspects is missing? In light of the current pandemic, the real relationship space that characterized part of the urban and architectural composition clashes with the regulatory provisions, in order to ensure physical (but not social) “times of crisis”, for cities and their inhabitants, looking into these spaces of relationship, which re-read their raison d’être in a term of forced virtual relationships.
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The contemporary urban model, globally spread and characterized by a high housing density, from different perspectives is considered more “sustainable”, and therefore to be pursued, compared to an extensive development connected to low-density urban development ideologies. Indeed, phenomena such as urban sprawl become degenerations of an urban model that cannot be controlled and defined as a whole. High density avoids excessive soil consumption, minimizing the use of the car for travelling, and, consequently, the reduction in the emission of polluting substances. However, the health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the shortcomings of a high-density settlement morphology. Since social distancing has become part of everyday life, following the health emergency, the most detectable effects are social. On the one hand, if the traditional urban convivial spaces are deserted (going towards an almost total cancellation of physical social relationships) on the other hand we are witnessing a multiplication and explosion of types of urban sociality, developed through new forms of expression and use of spaces. Therefore, this contingent situation offers the possibility to reflect on the role and importance of all those often forgotten spaces. Indeed, they have returned taking a key role within our quarantined lives: balconies, terraces, roofs, landings. Hanging spaces have become elements of sociality, bringing into dialogue a living microcosm with an external macrocosm, currently extraneous and detached. The paper intends to survey projects of the international architectural panorama that have been able to interpret these spaces with a new social vision. This vision does not lead to the oblivion of these relationships’ physical and spatial dimension but compares them with the new instances, and even emergencies, of the city of the future.
Books by Arianna Luisa Nicoletta Scaioli
Abstract - Italiano Il contributo presenta i risultati di una ricerca orientata al progetto sul tema della coevoluzione fra spazio, natura e società, concentrandosi su una frangia urbana di Milano in cui le attività umane e il capitale naturale co-esistono senza dialogo. Il progetto assume così il framework del New European Bauhaus, interpretandone la spazializzazione delle istanze proposte, cercando di restituire le ricadute fisiche di una trasformazione che tende a processi di co-evoluzione. L’esito della ricerca è la promozione di azioni progettuali atte ad un prototipo di paesaggio resiliente, connettendo le attività produttive al capitale naturale e sociale, attraverso l’uso di soluzioni circolari e nature-based. Quindi, si pone attenzione su configurazioni spaziali che hanno l’obiettivo di incrementare la biodiversità nell’insediamento umano, attraverso la progettazione di corridoi ecologici, e all’inclusività, nel ridisegno degli ex impianti industriali e degli habitat delle comunità locali.
Il progetto dello spazio pubblico contemporaneo può accogliere le nuove istanze della società contemporanea, incorporando valori e necessità proprie dell’epoca attuale. Il contributo ha lo scopo di presentare la possibilità di un approccio trasversale, in cui gli ideali di una società ecologica ed equa siano integrati nello spazio e nelle sue fasi di progettazione.
Questo metodo è disvelato attraverso l’utilizzo di nature-based solutions e gender-sensitive approach, applicati all’interno di processi di rigenerazione urbana di aree marginali, considerate come contesti fertili, in cui si denota una sovrapposizione di problematiche ambientali legate al cambiamento climatico e disuguaglianze di genere. Attraverso la presentazione di due casi studio, verranno quindi mostrate delle soluzioni applicative delle strategie menzionate, in cui il progetto non è subordinato alla sola costruzione della forma, bensì intreccia valori etici ed estetici nella costruzione di uno spazio collettivo.
Abstract
The design of the contemporary public space can include the new needs of society, incorporating the values of the current era. The contribution aims to present the possibility of a transversal approach, in which the ideals of an ecological and fair society are integrated into space and in its
design phases.
This method is revealed through the use of nature-based solutions and gender-sensitive approach, applied within urban regeneration processes of marginal areas, considered fertile contexts, in which there is an overlap of environmental problems linked to climate change and gender inequalities. The article will display the application of the aforementioned strategies through the presentation of two case studies, in which the project is not subordinated to the production of the form but rather intertwines ethical and aesthetic values in the construction of common space.
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Abstract
The crisis into the void.
Considering the city, and its buildings, as a place of union of physical and socio-economic relationships, what happens when one of these aspects is missing? In light of the current pandemic, the real relationship space that characterized part of the urban and architectural composition clashes with the regulatory provisions, in order to ensure physical (but not social) “times of crisis”, for cities and their inhabitants, looking into these spaces of relationship, which re-read their raison d’être in a term of forced virtual relationships.
Abstract
The contemporary urban model, globally spread and characterized by a high housing density, from different perspectives is considered more “sustainable”, and therefore to be pursued, compared to an extensive development connected to low-density urban development ideologies. Indeed, phenomena such as urban sprawl become degenerations of an urban model that cannot be controlled and defined as a whole. High density avoids excessive soil consumption, minimizing the use of the car for travelling, and, consequently, the reduction in the emission of polluting substances. However, the health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the shortcomings of a high-density settlement morphology. Since social distancing has become part of everyday life, following the health emergency, the most detectable effects are social. On the one hand, if the traditional urban convivial spaces are deserted (going towards an almost total cancellation of physical social relationships) on the other hand we are witnessing a multiplication and explosion of types of urban sociality, developed through new forms of expression and use of spaces. Therefore, this contingent situation offers the possibility to reflect on the role and importance of all those often forgotten spaces. Indeed, they have returned taking a key role within our quarantined lives: balconies, terraces, roofs, landings. Hanging spaces have become elements of sociality, bringing into dialogue a living microcosm with an external macrocosm, currently extraneous and detached. The paper intends to survey projects of the international architectural panorama that have been able to interpret these spaces with a new social vision. This vision does not lead to the oblivion of these relationships’ physical and spatial dimension but compares them with the new instances, and even emergencies, of the city of the future.