The MAA is a visionary master program with an innovative and open structure, mixing diverse disciplines, shaping professionals capable of producing theoretical & practical solutions towards responsive cities, architecture & technology.
Anthropocene: Urbicidal Anthropocene
URBICIDAL ANTHROPOCENE: a concept within contemporary urban theory that criticizes the notion of resilience and advocates radical urban transformation in dual forms. The first form is the dismantling of environmentally endangered cities, and the second is the isolation from existing infrastructural networks. It promotes the pre-emptive destruction of already doomed unjust resilient cities and transforms … Read more
Degrowth: Urban Degrowth
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency
THE SYNTHETIC
Selected excerpt “…the “synthetic” is a genuine and meaningful version of something that was deliberately created (such as a laboratory-grown diamond identical to a “natural” one at the molecular level). Thus, artificial intelligence merely seems smart, but synthetic intelligence really is. We should be pursuing synthetic intelligence, not artificial intelligence.” Chat GPT4_Itemization of ideas Synthetic … Read more
