II - Fall 2024
pp. 206
ISBN paper version 9791259934635
ISBN pdf version 9791259934642
Fragility rattles our perception of continuity and development by rendering visible the interdependencies that sustain our shared environment. It frames conditions of openness in which architecture is constantly composed and recomposed through processes of transformation.
Fragility articulates this embeddedness and makes balanced interdependencies and transient temporalities present to us.
In this issue of “Ardeth”, we begin from a shared, hopeful proposition: that fragility is not a limitation but a (re)generative condition of architecture.
Architecture, with its unique multi-scalar situation, from the individual to the global, has under-utilized potential to support transformative change for improving our well-being and our planetary outlook.
Note from the Director
Ilaria Valente
Everyday Resistance
The Editorial Board of “Ardeth”
Fragility: Foundations for a Regenerative Architecture
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Nicole Miller, Stine Dalager Nielsen
We’re Going Down by, Down by, the Muddy River
Federico Broggini, Marco Ranzato, Andrea Bortolotti, Davide
Cauciello
Inhabiting Fragility. A Sociotechnical Approach to Spatial Vulnerability
Gianluca Burgio, Deborah Giunta
Durable Fragilities. Maintenance and Care in Mud-Domed Villages of Syria
Wesam Al Asali, Iyas Shahin
Complaint as action in the Corviale at Rome
Carolina Dayer, Ruth Baumeister
The Fragile Night. Infrastructural Fragility and Urban Inequality in Johannesburg
Guy Trangos
An Intergenerational Shift in Mindset
Silke Langenberg, Orkun Kasap, Matthias Brenner
Beyond Dying Bodies: The Set of Gravity and Likbodsprojektet
Pietro Alfano, Silvia Narducci
Architecture as a Convivial Tool. Reading BAST’s Projects through Ivan Illich in Response to Fragility
Matteo Tempestini
The Importance of Dynamic Evolving Architecture. The Evolution of Broken World Thinking to Dynamic World Thinking
James Ritson
Whence Architecture
Kiel Moe
Eight Repair Lessons
Steven J. Jackson
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