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Using key concepts from systems thinking, complexity sciences, life sciences, cognitive sciences, and social sciences, the book frames a systemic spatial design approach aimed at enhancing the potential of different spatial design disciplines to navigate place-specific emergent transformations without overdetermining their formal outcome.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Urban complexity, systems thinking, spatial design
2. An embodied approach: Intervening in spontaneous socio-spatial dynamics
3. Open design: Directing rather than mastering emergent transformations
4. Design as a 'good perturbation': Navigating adaptive cycles in cities
5. A multi-scale living atlas: Detecting leverage points for spatial action
6. Systemic spatial design: Enhancing synergies between different design disciplines
7. An eco-systemic approach: Fostering city vitality
8. Conclusion: Cultivating urban complexity: The systemic turn in spatial design disciplines
About the author
Elena Porqueddu is an architect and researcher based in Milan. After gaining a Ph.D. in Architecture, Urban Design and Conservation of Housing and Landscape from the Polytechnic of Milan, she continues to dedicate her activities as a scholar and lecturer to exploring the interplay between spatial design disciplines and the emergence/evolution of spontaneous social-spatial configurations, and to studying the implications of systems thinking for spatial design.
