The science of futures. Promises and previsions in architecture and philosophy

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Future Studies are a field of research which has expanded over the last few years; their goal is to extend to social reality the possibility of making previsions. Future studies investigate the manifold images of the future in order to promote present actions. In the field of architectural design, the problem of the future is nested in the activity of all architects’ practices: they design something that does not yet exist, and maybe never will. Architects produce new conditions which will affect the future, so they need both to predict and to promise future effects through their projects. Parallelly, philosophers have explored the future – its ontological consistencies, for instance – in the philosophy of time, and future as a ‘prevision of state of affairs’ is a recurring theme in the philosophy of economics. Furthermore, philosophers usually aim to describe and possibly predict the future, rather than constructing it.

Summary of contents

Maurizio Ferraris, Prefazione. Documanità

Alessandro Armando, Giovanni Durbiano, Introduzione. Conoscere il futuro: invenzioni, programmi e progetti

Franco Purini, Il disegno come teoria

Michela Rosso, Andrea Ronzino, Il futuro tra le parole degli architetti. Quattro punti di vista e ulteriori questioni

Gabriele Pasqui, Futuri anteriori: il tempo del progetto

Hélène Frichot, Fleeing with one’s back turned: Toward feminist futures

Lucio Spaziante, Immaginare il futuro prossimo: costruire mondi attraverso la fantascienza audiovisiva

Petar Bojanić, The acts of Project(ion) / Project acts or Projacts

Snežana Vesnić, Miloš Ćipranić, The concept: A map for generations

Edoardo Fregonese, Filosofia e progetto. Breve storia di una vicenda attuale

Nicola Marzot, L’avventura del progetto e il destino dell’uomo. Architettura e costruzione della realtà sociale

Ramon Rispoli, Ester Jordana Lluch, Dar luogo a ciò che non ha luogo: utopia e prototyping

Carlo Deregibus, Alberto Giustiniano, Il filo e la marionetta. Verso un progettare strategico

Vincenzo Galasso, Designing a pension system

Isabella Maria Lami, Elena Todella, Facing urban uncertainty with the Strategic Choice Approach: The introduction of disruptive events

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Renato Boccali, L’incarnazione dell’idea nello spazio della scrittura

Dario Cecchi, Il lettore esemplare. Fenomenologia della lettura ed estetica dell’interazione