EAT (in) THE CITY. An Adaptive Process of Transformation Applying the Tool of the Food Metaphor

A successful urban project cannot be achieved without taking into account the sedimentary character of the places and the actions that take place there every day. We tried to read the mechanisms that trigger changes in order to plan the use of space through the spatial design of social activities re...

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Main Authors: Roberta Ingaramo, Federica Carrero
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Published: University of Bologna 2024-11-01
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description A successful urban project cannot be achieved without taking into account the sedimentary character of the places and the actions that take place there every day. We tried to read the mechanisms that trigger changes in order to plan the use of space through the spatial design of social activities related to food. In modern cities, moments of aggregation can be used as a design tool to create a "recipe" to re-analyse a place. The research conducted applies the metaphor of food and its rituals as a tool to redefine street spaces and evolutionary relations between uses and the built environment in the city. Different devices are designed to bring participants to carry out the activities of their daily life in different spaces: the house is opening more and more to the city and vice-versa. It is a process that starts "from below," with simple and replicable technologies. It is not just a matter of building new spaces, but of highlighting and spatialising processes related to food. So, the project is not only a driver of change but also a key to understanding the complex relationships between the already existing urban devices and the processes that have always had a great influence on the city. The design devices go to work on the program of cities, introducing new spaces to eat together, in the street, they go to break those rigid boundaries that distinguish and separate uses based on ownership, introducing the hybrid form of sharing.
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spelling doaj-art-9fe5d58adcd54eb6a38bddc29998f1ef2025-08-20T02:49:46ZengUniversity of BolognaIn_Bo2036-16022024-11-01157s768910.6092/issn.2036-1602/2041218782EAT (in) THE CITY. An Adaptive Process of Transformation Applying the Tool of the Food MetaphorRoberta Ingaramo0Federica Carrero1Politecnico di TorinoPolitecnico di TorinoA successful urban project cannot be achieved without taking into account the sedimentary character of the places and the actions that take place there every day. We tried to read the mechanisms that trigger changes in order to plan the use of space through the spatial design of social activities related to food. In modern cities, moments of aggregation can be used as a design tool to create a "recipe" to re-analyse a place. The research conducted applies the metaphor of food and its rituals as a tool to redefine street spaces and evolutionary relations between uses and the built environment in the city. Different devices are designed to bring participants to carry out the activities of their daily life in different spaces: the house is opening more and more to the city and vice-versa. It is a process that starts "from below," with simple and replicable technologies. It is not just a matter of building new spaces, but of highlighting and spatialising processes related to food. So, the project is not only a driver of change but also a key to understanding the complex relationships between the already existing urban devices and the processes that have always had a great influence on the city. The design devices go to work on the program of cities, introducing new spaces to eat together, in the street, they go to break those rigid boundaries that distinguish and separate uses based on ownership, introducing the hybrid form of sharing.https://in-bo.unibo.it/article/view/20412food as a tooladaptive transformationevolutionary usessocial activitiesplacemaking
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social activities
placemaking
title EAT (in) THE CITY. An Adaptive Process of Transformation Applying the Tool of the Food Metaphor
title_full EAT (in) THE CITY. An Adaptive Process of Transformation Applying the Tool of the Food Metaphor
title_fullStr EAT (in) THE CITY. An Adaptive Process of Transformation Applying the Tool of the Food Metaphor
title_full_unstemmed EAT (in) THE CITY. An Adaptive Process of Transformation Applying the Tool of the Food Metaphor
title_short EAT (in) THE CITY. An Adaptive Process of Transformation Applying the Tool of the Food Metaphor
title_sort eat in the city an adaptive process of transformation applying the tool of the food metaphor
topic food as a tool
adaptive transformation
evolutionary uses
social activities
placemaking
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