Two Point Prespective: A glo-cal performance of contemporary cities

My master thesis project revolves around the theme of festivalisation of contemporary cities. This emerging phenomenon sees the instrumentalization of cultural events and festivals into powerful economic tools to attract a global flow of event-driven tourists. This economic model, together with the fast development of infrastructural fast...

The Naked Island: Unveiling the Dichotomy of Productive and Romantic Territories

Land and Sea are of a very different kind. One roots people to their contexts, tying them to its borders, properties and complex systems of relations; the other suggests the possibility for limit-less, unconditional wandering, an overwhelming experience of movement, in both space and time. This ancient tension between the anthropic process of...

White Elephant: Investigating Transgressive Practices of the Excluded

The project "White Elephant" investigates the relationship between individual and the public space by looking at the practices of the "Homo-Sacers" who are excluded from the public sphere, yet occupying the public space. By analyzing how they inhabit and appropriate the space for their needs, the research brings up important questions about how...

Fringe Fictions: The Case of La Linea Verde: The Kitchen, the Table, the Soil and the Market

City in Balance: a spatial vision and strategy on the continuity between centre and periphery in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is dealing with a discontinuity between a gentrified urban centre and a disadvantaged periphery, caused by the presence of different spatial concepts. The centre follows the concept of centralisation and therefore has fine grain, marked by the richness of connections between the different scaled grids. Centrality happens on the streets...

Breaking the Dichotomy: The borderland and the decentralization of the food supply system. The case of Medellín, Colombia

In many Latin American cities, like Medellín, the food distribution system has an apparent irrational structure. The case is that food is distributed first to the city centre and from there redistributed towards the periphery with a concentrically raising price. This becomes most clear if we look at the informally built settlements that are...