Rowe Rome: City of Good Intentions, 21-23 /6/2017

Friday June 23rd 2017 by Peter Thomas Lang

Rowe Rome 2017

CITIES OF GOOD INTENTIONS
Le città delle buone intenzioni

Urban Design Dialogues
Dialoghi di progettazione urbana

June 21–June 23, 2017
21-23 giugno 2017

Sapienza Università di Roma, School of Engineering, San Pietro in Vincoli
Sapienza Università di Roma, Facoltà d’ingegneria, San Pietro in Vincoli

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June 21st, Wednesday  

Registration (8:30)

Plenary Session 1 (9:30-1:30)
Expanding Global and Emergent Perspectives: Values in Conflict
Prospettive globali ed emergenti in espansione: Valori in conflitto 

Chairs:

• Claudia Mattogno,  Sapienza
• Steven Hurtt,  University of Maryland

 

Welcoming Address:
• Antonio D’Andrea, Sapienza, Dean, Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale
• Alessandro Ridolfi, President, Ordine degli Architetti PPC Roma

 

Presentations:

• D. Grahame Shane, Columbia University
  Colin Rowe and the cities of utopia

• Andrew Rudd, UN Habitat
  The U.N. New Urban Agenda

• Ellen Dunham-Jones,  Georgia Institute of Technology
  “Heaven or Hell? The impact of autonomous vehicles on urban form”

• Mosé Ricci,  University of Trento
  Living the Eternal Present

• Giuseppe Imbesi, Sapienza
  The urban project among too many cultural dimensions

 

Plenary Session 2 (3:00-5:30)
Expanding Global and Emergent Perspectives: Values in Concert 
Prospettive globali ed emergenti in espansione: Valori in Concerto 

Chairs:

• Elio Piroddi, Sapienza
• Antonio Pietro Latini,  University of Oregon

Presentations:

• Marco Romano,  Estetica della città
  Cities of desire

• Harrison Fraker,  University of California, Berkeley
  Where are the ‘Poetics’ in Sustainable Urban Design – Latent Potentials for the Urban Section

• Tigran Haas, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  Heritage urbanism, cultural urbanism and the temporary city

• Elio Piroddi, Sapienza
  The morphology dimension in planning

 

 

Plenary Debate (5:30-6:30)

 

 

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Thursday, June 22  

Parallel Session One  (morning 9:30-1:30, afternoon 3:00-4:30)
Diverse Aspects of the Discipline. Recent and Emerging Concepts and Tools
Diversi aspetti della disciplina. Concetti e strumenti recenti e emergenti 

Chair:

• Matthew Bell,  University of  Maryland

Presentations:

• Matthew Bell,  University of Maryland
  Urban Design and The Public Negotiation

• Daniel Parolek,  Opticos Design
  The missing middle

• June Williamson,  City College New York
  Suburban Sprawl Retrofit: Urban Design Lessons, and Questions, from North America

• Marco Adelfio, Chalmers Tech, Göteborg
  “Towards a suburban compact city? Methodological challenges in the application of a mixed-method and multi-stakeholder approach”

• Stephen Quick, Carnegie Mellon University
  Transformational Place

• Elena Marchigiani, University of Trieste
  Mobility-space and the city: challenges and conflicts

• Ettore Maria Mazzola,  University of Notre Dame
  How can one regenerate a Degraded District

• Ken McCown, University of Arkansas
  Big Data and Bricolage

 

Parallel Session Two (morning 9:30-1:30, afternoon 3:00-4:30)
Diverse Aspects of the Discipline. Conventions and Traditions: Old and New Paradigms 
Diversi aspetti della disciplina. Convenzioni e tradizioni: vecchi e nuovi paradigmi 

Chair:

• James Tice, University of Oregon

 

Presentations:

• James Tice, University of Oregon
  Looking at the Old City with New Eyes

• J. Michael Schwarting, New York Institute of Technology
  Rome: Formation and Transformation

• Allan Ceen, Studium Urbis
  Urban Reciprocity in Rome

• David Mayernik, University of Notre Dame
  Reverberations of Rome: Diverse Societies and Common Themes

• Steven Semes, University of Notre Dame
  New Building and Old Paradigms: Architecture and Urbanism of Gustavo Giovannoni

• Heleni Porfyriou, National Research Council, Italy
  Italian urban design tradition and the new rural settlements of the Thirties

• Alessandro Camiz, Girne American University, Cyprus
  Urban Morphology: an (old) tool for teaching and practicing (new) Urban Design

• Pieter Uyttenhove, Ghent University
  The Place of Design in Discourse on Sprawl

• Peter Lang, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
  Rome today, through the work of the group Stalker