The thesis delves into the theme of transmissibility, conceived as the act of constructing and critically disseminating knowledge within the context of design culture—an enduringly central topic due to its natural significance in the advancement of architectural discipline. In contemporary times, the reasons for this centrality require urgent examination, given that the traditional role of the School in knowledge transmission is now in competition with an external initiative system—consolidated with the advent of the Web—whose speed and pervasiveness in daily life are generating effects more effectively "formative" than those guaranteed by traditional educational institutions. The epistemological premise underlying the definition of transmissibility adopted in the research can be traced to the complementarity between two dimensions that, at least ideally, concur to construct and disseminate knowledge through different mechanisms: the School and the External. The former through the teacher-student relationship, the latter in a self-taught form, through an individual process, devoid of mediation. If the School-External dialectic became an indispensable prerequisite for building and disseminating a “tradition” through magazines, editorial series, or events like the Milan Triennale and later the Venice Biennale, this complementarity has progressively deteriorated to the present day. In particular, today, the External is an almost entirely unexplored and vast territory, capable of revealing the regressions and potentials of an extremely diversified system of experiences. Social media, online platforms, magazines, journals, podcasts, and even events such as festivals, seminars, and workshops possess a much higher capacity for engagement and attraction than traditional academic transmission, thanks to their daily actions and the ease with which they utilize more effective and familiar languages. Alongside the dynamism of the External, the School institution coexists—an apparently inert body dangerously isolated within the solid walls of a hyper-bureaucratized neo-academia and a design culture limited to expressions of consumption or technicality, far from being a place of cultural production, an "active service to the social complex" (Rogers 1962). The thesis builds upon these considerations, assuming the task of interrogating the External to thoroughly understand its effectiveness, evolution, tools, and mechanisms, with the objective of identifying perspectives through which to reanimate the School based on positive contributions from beyond its boundaries. This premise is pursued through numerous experiences described in the document, such as the IUAV’s re-foundation by Samonà, the British "Open University," Colin Ward’s promoted "Urban Study Centres," or, albeit in utopian form, Cedric Price’s "Potteries Thinkbelt" project. Finally, a specific chapter is dedicated to outlining operational scenarios aimed at promoting a correct and authentic transmissibility of extra-academic knowledge through the development, in addition to a series of actions outlined in a critical catalog, of a tool capable of summarizing the entire course of the work. In this sense, the development of a multimedia platform, named "LIA. Italian Architecture Lectures," seeks to bring the theoretical outcomes of the research directly to those long-understood places, avoiding the exhaustion of reasoning in an exclusively critical exercise.
La tesi indaga il tema della trasmissibilità, intesa come atto di costruzione e diffusione critica di sapere, nell’ambito della cultura del progetto, un argomento da sempre centrale per la sua naturale importanza nel progresso della disciplina architettonica. Nell’epoca contemporanea le ragioni di questa centralità necessitano poi di essere prese in esame con particolare urgenza se si considera che il tradizionale ruolo della Scuola nella trasmissione di sapere è entrato in competizione con un sistema di iniziative esterne – consolidatosi con l’avvento del Web – la cui velocità e pervasività nella vita quotidiana sta producendo effetti più efficacemente “formativi” di quelli garantiti dai tradizionali luoghi deputati a farlo. Il presupposto epistemologico alla base della definizione di trasmissibilità assunta nella ricerca è da rintracciarsi nella complementarità tra due dimensioni che, almeno idealmente, concorrono a costruire e diffondere sapere tramite meccaniche differenti, la Scuola e l’Esterno. La prima attraverso il rapporto maestro-allievo, la seconda in forma autodidattica, tramite un processo individuale, privo di mediazione. Se la dialettica Scuola-Esterno divenne, tra il dopoguerra e gli anni Novanta, un prerequisito indispensabile per costruire e divulgare una tradizione attraverso riviste, collane editoriali oppure la Triennale di Milano e successivamente la Biennale di Venezia, progressivamente questa complementarità si è deteriorata fino a giungere nella contemporaneità. In particolare, oggi, l’Esterno risulta un terreno sconfinato, quasi del tutto inesplorato ma proprio per questo capace di mostrare le regressioni e le potenzialità di un sistema di esperienze estremamente diversificate. Social media, piattaforme online, magazine, riviste, podcast fino ad arrivare a manifestazioni come festival, seminari, workshop possiedono una capacità di coinvolgimento e attrazione molto più elevata rispetto alla tradizionale trasmissione accademica, grazie alla quotidianità con cui agiscono e alla disinvoltura con cui sfruttano linguaggi più efficaci e familiari. Alla dinamicità dell’Esterno, si affianca l’istituzione Scuola, un corpo apparentemente inerte e pericolosamente isolato dentro le solide mura di un neo-accademismo iper-burocratizzato e di una cultura del progetto limitata a espressione di consumo o di tecnicismo ben lontano da essere un luogo di produzione culturale, un “attivo servizio del complesso sociale” (Rogers 1962). La tesi parte dalle precedenti considerazioni, assumendo il compito di interrogare l’Esterno per comprenderne a fondo l’efficacia, l’evoluzione, gli strumenti e i meccanismi su cui si fonda, ponendosi come obiettivo quello di rintracciare delle prospettive attraverso cui rianimare la Scuola a partire proprio dai contributi positivi proveniente al di fuori dei suoi confini. Presupposto, questo, perseguito da numerose esperienze che verranno descritte nel corso dell’elaborato, quali, per esempio, la rifondazione dello IUAV da parte di Samonà, la “Open University” britannica, gli “Urban study Centres” promossi Colin Ward o, seppur in forma utopica, il progetto “Potteries Thinkbelt” elaborato di Cedric Price. Infine, un capitolo specifico verrà dedicato a delineare degli scenari operativi orientati a promuovere una corretta e autentica trasmissibilità del sapere extra-accademica attraverso lo sviluppo, oltre a una serie di azioni formulate in un catalogo critico, di uno strumento capace di riassumere l’intero percorso dell’elaborato. In questo senso lo sviluppo di una piattaforma multimediale, denominata “LIA. Lezioni italiane di architettura”, tenta di portare gli esiti teorici della ricerca direttamente in quei luoghi a lungo oggetto di indagine, per evitare di esaurire il ragionamento in un esercizio esclusivamente critico.
Per una Scuola fuori dalla scuola. Fenomeni, strumenti e prospettive della trasmissibilità extra-accademica
Riccardo, Rapparini
2024
Abstract
The thesis delves into the theme of transmissibility, conceived as the act of constructing and critically disseminating knowledge within the context of design culture—an enduringly central topic due to its natural significance in the advancement of architectural discipline. In contemporary times, the reasons for this centrality require urgent examination, given that the traditional role of the School in knowledge transmission is now in competition with an external initiative system—consolidated with the advent of the Web—whose speed and pervasiveness in daily life are generating effects more effectively "formative" than those guaranteed by traditional educational institutions. The epistemological premise underlying the definition of transmissibility adopted in the research can be traced to the complementarity between two dimensions that, at least ideally, concur to construct and disseminate knowledge through different mechanisms: the School and the External. The former through the teacher-student relationship, the latter in a self-taught form, through an individual process, devoid of mediation. If the School-External dialectic became an indispensable prerequisite for building and disseminating a “tradition” through magazines, editorial series, or events like the Milan Triennale and later the Venice Biennale, this complementarity has progressively deteriorated to the present day. In particular, today, the External is an almost entirely unexplored and vast territory, capable of revealing the regressions and potentials of an extremely diversified system of experiences. Social media, online platforms, magazines, journals, podcasts, and even events such as festivals, seminars, and workshops possess a much higher capacity for engagement and attraction than traditional academic transmission, thanks to their daily actions and the ease with which they utilize more effective and familiar languages. Alongside the dynamism of the External, the School institution coexists—an apparently inert body dangerously isolated within the solid walls of a hyper-bureaucratized neo-academia and a design culture limited to expressions of consumption or technicality, far from being a place of cultural production, an "active service to the social complex" (Rogers 1962). The thesis builds upon these considerations, assuming the task of interrogating the External to thoroughly understand its effectiveness, evolution, tools, and mechanisms, with the objective of identifying perspectives through which to reanimate the School based on positive contributions from beyond its boundaries. This premise is pursued through numerous experiences described in the document, such as the IUAV’s re-foundation by Samonà, the British "Open University," Colin Ward’s promoted "Urban Study Centres," or, albeit in utopian form, Cedric Price’s "Potteries Thinkbelt" project. Finally, a specific chapter is dedicated to outlining operational scenarios aimed at promoting a correct and authentic transmissibility of extra-academic knowledge through the development, in addition to a series of actions outlined in a critical catalog, of a tool capable of summarizing the entire course of the work. In this sense, the development of a multimedia platform, named "LIA. Italian Architecture Lectures," seeks to bring the theoretical outcomes of the research directly to those long-understood places, avoiding the exhaustion of reasoning in an exclusively critical exercise.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/196726
URN:NBN:IT:UNIPR-196726