Design of the Unfinished: A New Way of Designing Leftovers Regeneration (The Urban Book Series)

Introduction Contents Contributors Part I Politecnico Approach 1 Manifesto of Design of Unfinished 1.1 Leftovers 1.2 Urban Leftovers 1.3 Neo-Nomads 1.4 Inhabiting the World 1.5 Transdisciplinarity 1.6 Works 1.7 Teaching Experiments 1.8 Design Experiments 1.9 Conclusions Appendix References 2 The State of the Art Between Needs and Desires. Design of the Unfinished as a New Perspective of Intervention on Existing Building 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Seven Hints 2.3 Is the Design of the Unfinished a Desire? 2.4 Conclusion Bibliography 3 Regenerate Urban Leftovers 3.1 Introduction 3.2 A Collaborative Experimentation Between Public and Private 3.3 A Multicentric Peripherality: Art and Creativity as Drivers of Adaptive Reuse 3.3.1 For an “Emerging” Periphery 3.3.2 Towards Cultural and Creative Hubs 3.4 Conclusions References 4 Reusing Leftovers: Corporeity and Empathy of Places 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Obsolescence and Soil Consumption 4.3 Space Fascination 4.4 Places and Corporeity 4.4.1 Empathy and Synaesthesia 4.4.2 Atmosphere 4.5 Reusing Leftovers 4.5.1 Historical Places 4.6 Conclusions References 5 Leftovers at the Start. From the Analysis of the Theme to the Development of Design Strategies 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Dynamics of Experiences 5.2.1 Aesthetic Experiences 5.2.2 Entertainment Experiences 5.2.3 Educational Experiences 5.2.4 Escape Experiences 5.3 Some Considerations on Leftovers 5.3.1 Leftover as Time 5.3.2 Leftovers as Meaning 5.3.3 Leftovers as Opportunities 5.3.4 The Role of the Designer 5.3.5 A Luggage of Strategies 5.3.6 Long Time Strategy 5.3.7 And Yet It Moves 5.3.8 I Need to Find a Sense 5.3.9 Neo-Synesthesia 5.3.10 Oxymoronic Landscapes 5.3.11 Leaning to the Context 5.3.12 Close-Up 5.3.13 I’ll Spite You 5.3.14 Strategies in the Final Synthesis Studio 5.4 Learning to Observe References Part II International Scenario 6 Revisiting Heritage and Regenerating the City: The Rest as a Resource in Gulf of Benin 6.1 The Hunkanrin House or to Occupy While Waiting 6.2 The Past Between the Allochthonous Will Be to Rehabilitate and the Local Desire to Erase It 6.3 Urban Initiatives Financed and Supported by Public Institutions 6.4 Events as a Means of Reactivating Places: Giving Meaning to “Forgotten” Sites 6.5 Spaces of Memory and Spaces of Identity 6.6 From Intervention on the Isolated Object to the Systemic Logic of the Regenerative Project? 6.7 Conclusion References 7 Theaster Gates, Freedom, and the Long View 7.1 Part I: The Gates System of Creative Innovation Practice. An Open Call 7.2 Part II: A Proposal for a Further Look at Creative Systems Innovation 7.3 Part III: The Elements Made Manifest 7.4 Part IV: Integration 8 From Grain to Gold: The Regeneration of New Delhi’s Dhan Mill Compound 8.1 The Design of the Unfinished 8.2 The Dhan Mill: A Prologue 8.3 The Facility, Mill, and Compound Typology 8.4 Economic Development: India 8.5 Context of Economic Development: Delhi 8.6 Gentrification and Aspirant Strongholds 8.7 Development: The Arts and Culture Scene in Delhi 8.8 Isomorphism Between London and Delhi Infrastructures, the Repatriation Pipeline of Nationals Educated Abroad 8.9 Postscript Appendix 8.1 References Part III Disciplinary Contaminations 9 Urban Remnants Become Setting for Events 9.1 The Spark of Counterculture 9.2 The Milan Case 9.3 Tortona District 9.4 The Ventura Project Experience 9.5 The More Recent Cases of Nolo and Bovisa 9.6 Conclusion References 10 Beyond Restoration: Reflections for a New Transdisciplinary Paradigm 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Urban Leftovers as Tangible Landmarks in Everyday Life 10.3 Understanding Citizens to Enhance Urban Leftovers 10.4 A Cross Fertilization to Build Awareness 10.5 Conclusions References 11 Nature and Anti-nature. The Fractals of the Unfinished 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Expression, Fragment, Document 11.3 The Leftovers Texture as a Value 11.4 Self-resemblance 11.5 Conclusion References 12 Giving Form to Precariousness 12.1 Artwork, Site, Situation 12.2 “Formed Form” and Relation 12.3 Forms of Precariousness: Places, Non-Places, Remains 12.4 From Site-Specific to Time-Specific 12.4.1 Giving Form to Precariousness: Two Case Histories References 13 The Polysemantic Nature of Music. A Hermeneutical Perspective 13.1 Leftover as Surplus 13.2 Leftover as Renewal 13.3 Leftover as Unfinished References 14 For a Soft Law of Contemporary Project: Food for Thought and a Manifesto 14.1 Manifesto for a Responsible and Creative Local Governance 14.2 Manifesto for a Responsible and Creative Local Governance References Afterword The book aims to provide city administrators and planners with a tool to accompany them in experimenting with the regeneration of no longer used parts of the built heritage, called leftovers, by adopting an innovative approach. A new and radically different form of project, with the task of proposing a new aesthetic code and a style of thought aimed at creating shelters for nomads of the third millennium. In the design field, the 21st century will be destined to measure itself against temporariness and precariousness, also in terms of aesthetic practices. Based on this hypothesis, the text identifies the design of the unfinished as the perspective for attributing to the leftovers a character, which is representative of the conditions of the just begun century. Through a transdisciplinary, exhibition-like and reversible approach, the elements of degradation of the existing work are welcomed in the project as a "gift", to be translated into a syntax aimed at giving form and meaning to the internal and external environments, with the inclusion of "additional components". Part I: Politecnico approach -- Manifesto of design of the unfinished -- The state of the art, between needs and desires -- Regenerate urban leftovers -- Leftovers reuse: Corporeity and empathy of places -- Leftovers at the start. From the analysis of the theme to the development of design strategies -- Part II: International scenario -- Revisiting heritage, regenerating the city: The rest as a resource in Gulf of Benin -- Theaster gates, freedom, and the long view -- From grain to gold: The regeneration of New Delhi's Dhan Mill compound -- Part III: Disciplinary contaminations -- Urban remnants become setting for events -- Beyond restoration. Reflections for a new transdisciplinary paradigm -- Nature and anti-nature. The fractals of the unfinished -- Giving form to precariousness -- The polysemantic nature of music. A hermeneutical perspective -- For a softlaw of contemporary project: Food for thought and a manifesto