Venice here we come again!
I am super happy to announce that Kyong Park (UCSanDiego), Mijoo Park (RAT School), Alex Valentino and myself (Laboratorio Architettura Nomade) are among the participants in the Future School/Korean Pavillion curated by Haewon Shin at the 17th Architecture Venice Biennale .
Cool City is a multidisciplinary research/action project that proposes urban experimentation aimed at achieving the following objectives:
- Resilience to climate change - Urban regeneration - Urban re-naturalization - Protection and increase of biodiversity
The study focuses on the metropolitan areas of Seoul and Naples. It aims at the recovery of dispersed and no longer used water to mitigate the rise in temperature at the city level. Cool City aims at the improvement and re-functionalization of the abundant spring waters that have characterized the hydro-geological history of the cities and that today are channeled into sewers or spills connected to the sea. In this regard, Cool City brings together expertise in the fields of urban design, air pollution, hydraulic systems, air conditioning systems, environmental engineering, biology, urban sociology, archeology, and geology.
The CoolCity Lab will run in Seoul, Naples, and Venice. Workshops are open to all students. They will be held in Naples September 8-11, 2020 ( Laboratorio Architettura Nomade near Porta Capuana) and in Venice September 14-18, 2020 (Korean Pavilion, in the Giardini).
Contact for more info : crikx@yahoo.com