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2nd IConA - Canon and Code
The language of arts in today's world

 
What are the meanings of language arts in the present time?
Architecture, art among the arts, in the age of recurring transformations of paradigms and expressive codes, is mostly an issue of communication and lost its fertile historical relationship with the arts.
The legacy of the modern culture is still present producing language outcomes within a field of aesthetic expression on the one hand logical-rational and on the other intuitive-empathic.
Is there a time of language? Is there a meaning of language depending on times?
The language is transformed through neologisms, transcriptions and new arrangements.
The hermeneutics of languages are expressed either by intelligibility (absolute or relative) or by the construction of a consensus through the use of intermediate codes defining conceptual boundaries and ways of representations?
Adhesion to a linguistic expression does not occur due to the intelligibility of the language, and therefore consent is not obtained only through codifiable procedures.
In this brief framework we can discuss if the architect still needs to equip himself with his own language, grammar, canons and codes.
The conference aims to explore canon and codes in the languages of arts in present time considering genealogies, inventions, metamorphoses and contaminations.




1st IConA - Creativity and Reality
The art of building future cities

The field of knowledge defined by the terms “creativity” and “reality” may be considered the permanent framework for a reflection on innovation and the transformation of architecture and cities. However, it should be noted that in current decades, creativity as the engine of human invention and reality as a response to human needs have had, as their dominant field of application, technological innovation rather than the development of new city images. In recent times architecture and world cities have been especially “designed” by neoliberal, global and urban policies following the realization of mega-events, shopping malls, gated communities, large scale facilities, urban villages, spectacular architectural objects, territorial infrastructure and immaterial networks.

Moreover, while the urban transformations of the European cities are still designed according to the tradition of the last two-centuries, the challenge to design within informal contexts emerged as an inevitable need to match and support the cultural and social identities of the enormous “informal” and “illegal” communities, to deal with inequalities and “expulsions”, to improve living conditions and make urban space more democratic, technological and dialogic. Within this framework of “Plural Urbanism” rethinking the concepts of Creativity and Reality can be an important contribution to the construction of an “open city” in which sympathetic imagination, realistic and bold innovation will still be considered the architect’s principal means and can still feed the art of building the future city and architecture according to its actual realities, needs, emergencies, for pursuing a widespread human wellbeing and tackling the forces hidden in the global changes.


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