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The limitations, benefits, and challenges of updating public space can be tested through temporary interventions. Recycled materials, natural air purifiers, and inflatable structures are some of the strategies that designers use to set up itinerant atmospheres that can create community and alternative engagement. As the speed of change keeps increasing, ephemeral spaces are the perfect terrain for exploring new materials, spatial configurations, construction techniques, and user experiences.
- Urban Agriculture
- Modular Design
- Vernacular Design
- Negotiating Borders
- Transport Connections
- Unhoused
- Walkable Cities
- Ephemeral Architecture
- Designing for Risk
- Adaptive Reuse
- Algorithmic Design
- Building with Earth
- Dealing with Nature
- Social Inclusion
- Passive Design
- Urban Catalysts
- Watery Territories
- Geographies of Extraction
- Building Living Systems
- Affordable Housing
- Indigenous Practices
- Healthy City
- Degrowth
- Cycling Infrastructure
- Thermodynamic Systems
- Kinetic City
- Multiscale Approach
- Recycling & Upcycling
- New Working Habits
- Addressing Vacancy
- Green Transition
- Heat Emergency
- Collective Housing
- Unspoiled Landscape
- Ecologies of the Envelope
- Food Production
- Construction Ecology
- Megablock Urbanism
- On Site Robotics
- Co-living
- The 15-Minute City
- Biotech Architecture
- Out of Wood
- Out of Wood empreses
- Cosentino
- Emergency Housing
- Smart City
- Soft Infrastructures
- Sourcing Locally
- Lightweight Envelopes
- Emergent Material Ecologies
- Extraterrestrial
- Alternative Domesticity
- Optimized Construction
- Operative Mapping
- Mute Icons
- Post-pandemic Design
- Waste Management
- Biophilic Design
- Designing in Extreme Environments
- Sea Level Rise
- Performative Envelopes
- Architecture and Gender
- Inclusionary & Exclusionary Space
- Agency in Architecture
- Biomimetic Architecture
- Socio-Ecological Design
- Micro Living
- Disassembly Strategies
- De-carbonization
- Racial Justice
