Cosa significa insieme?

Abstract

Despite differences in historical contexts and issues to be addressed, the word together – as well as the words society, community, and the like – is a common thread of past and present concerns and ambitions in architecture. In recent years, together and togetherness have acquired even greater relevance due to the development and spread of participatory design. However, even when making the value of diversity explicit, a widespread tendency remains to consider the common good abstractly and generically. This article focuses on the contribution of Science and Technology Studies to such issues. In particular, the material-semiotic lines of insight of Actor-Network Theory and feminist technoscience complexify the implications of participation, broadening the range of actors that have to be accounted for and also multiplying situations that may destabilize predefined and unquestioned understandings of the common. In light of these stimuli, interesting pedagogical experiments in design studio courses inspired explorations of mine during a research stay in Berlin.

Keywords

• architecture
• STS
• inclusion
• participation
• neurodiversity