Title: Design and cultural sustainability. City, architecture and the design of the built environment

Speaker: Joseph Di Pasquale

Time: Wednesday, March, 13, 2024, 19:00-20:30

Venue: Building No.27, 1F, Multifunctional Room, SCUT

Summary:

The concept of "design" therefore stems from urban culture, the place of economic and cultural exchange where use value and aesthetic value are both essential elements that give value to the exchange, and are at the basis of rich creativity.

This in a conception of use value that must also be extended to the environment and the conscious use of resources, and to an idea of aesthetic value that becomes symbolic and iconic only when it finds a relationship with its cultural roots.

Culturally sustainable design extended to the entire built environment, 'from the spoon to the city', is therefore the search for this combination of use value and symbolic value in a process of progressive elimination of the superfluous to achieve the splendour of the essential.

About speaker:

Joseph Di Pasquale is an architect, university lecturer, PhD in architecture, designer and urban planner with international experience and recognition. He is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, where he holds a Phd in Hybrid Modular Architecture for Emerging Housing Behaviors. Since 2008, he has been engaged in cultural outreach with conferences in Italy, China, Russia and the United States, as well as publishing books and articles in international journals and academic publications. He is the founder of JDP Architects.