Eduardo Rico, Relational Urbanism: Models, Cities and Systemic Utopias

The lecture will describe the practices of Relational Urbanism, where concepts linked to the cybernetics and system theory form the basis of a renewed critical perspective framing associative and digital techniques, moving beyond the false promises of the parameter and the performative design. The turf which Relational Urbanism claims as its own is that of envisaging new regimes of urbanism which derive their raison d etre from a spatial design rooted in the material and temporal specificities of the terr