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Aim of the paper is to situate the meaning of competence by outlining the relation between the architectural practice and the "Super Ecobonus". This policy framework, introduced by the Italian government in 2020 and revised a number of times, provides fiscal incentives for buildings renovation aimed to energyefficient adaptation and sustainability goals. Within such framework, a huge amount of efforts and job opportunities for many firms are converging on a national scale. The paper approaches Super Ecobonus as an indirect experiment for operationally defining competence: such peculiar contingency offers a frame of what competences are according to the actions done by architects confronted in their everyday practice with performing the tasks the norm requires. Through a series of semi-structured interviews and their graphical organisation is presented a scenario of rather complex consequences brought by the regulatory constraints, diverging or integrating previous know-hows. Finally, it concludes that, despite a context of high bureaucratic density and logistical and timing pressures, each of the practices defines its action along original paths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Mondo Digitale is the property of Italian Association for Informatics & Automatic Calculation and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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The Good Life explored in the famous book of the same name by architect Iñaki Abalos can be compared to the "good life" questioned by philosopher Judith Butler. Her question of who has a right to a good life is comparable to the question of who belongs to the "together" propagated by the New European Bauhaus. According to Butler, a "good life" cannot be separated from "togetherness", the relationship with others, but also from resistance to a bad life. Resistance consists of opposing the differential distribution of the value of life and precariousness, trying to create conditions in which human interdependence and vulnerability become livable. The paper addresses two conditions under which vulnerability and interdependence become unbearable, depending on the role that architecture also assigns to bodies and determines their right to be present in public and private spaces. In this respect, "together" can be a tool of critical resistance for architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper refers to the birth of the recycling and domestic collection of electronic waste in Barcelona as a process of both urban innovation and social transformation. It is explained as an event that reveals the vital transformative capacity of matter in our societies and in our cities. With this goal, it makes use of Graham Harman's critique of Sociology of Associations to advance towards the proposal of New Materialisms. Innovation is expressed as a production made by heterogeneous entities within an improvised process. In it, human and non-human entities inter- act and produce differential transformations, linked by a sort of "corporal commitment". The intrinsic qualities of the material show themselves as creative resistances. These materials become intuitive actors in intra-action with elements of the social, giving rise -from 2015- to a new sensibility of the city towards electronic household waste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following work is part of a research aimed at investigate how to involve parametric software in the design of contemporary dwelling, in a process of urban regeneration which starts from the transformation of residential buildings of the last century in order to provide new forms of living able to accommodate different categories of users and respond directly to their needs. In particular, this paper intends to present an application, developed starting from the study of Tour Bois Le Prêtre transformation project designed by Lacaton & Vassal, which aims translating the main design choices in the parameters of an algorithm able to reproduce the logics of the intervention. The objective of the research is to focus on a set of parameters to be used for the development of a software useful for dwelling design, in which the project is direct result of the analysis of specific conditions and users needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the relationship between project and rights. At first, it discusses the redefinition of housing rights in the space of the city, by observing a workers' district of Geneva, the neighborhood of Les Grottes, that was the object of struggles and occupations in the eighties. Today it is an eco-neighborhood like many in Europe, where the right to housing, forcefully demanded during the past urban struggles, has broken down into an ensemble of superimposed fragments. Pluralization of the right to housing refers to two different perspectives. The first originates from the influence of social analysis, according to which our current condition is an expression of neo-liberal policies. In this perspective, the broken down of rights is the other side of rights retraction of its modern form. The second refers to pragmatism and its democratic individualism. Here the multiplication of subjective rights, no longer hierarchical or competitive, is an expression of what each individual considers a right way of living. The project needs to be prepared to manage any gaps arising between these dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Moving from the two geometries identified by Michel Serres as peculiar of the history of Western thought - the first free of utility, being the demonstration of the desire for intellectual speculation, the second functional to the achievement of practical and economic purposes as well as subject to the rules of power - the paper investigates the contradictions between the different meanings of geometry and representation, exploring the relationship between the project, its developers and users in order to outline new perspectives on the design process and the market dynamics. The text is divided into three parts: the first concisely presents the concepts on which the project / market dialectic is based; the second explores the less transparent regions of this complex relationship; the third hopes for the overcoming of contradictions through the definition of new estimative processes, multidimensional and circular, to be opposed to those, linear and one-dimensional, of neoclassical theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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