FULL invited to Technion Haifa
The Future Urban Legacy Lab is pleased to announce that from 12 to 15 May prof. Matteo Robiglio will be hosted by the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).
This official visit is aimed to explain the unique and experimental nature of the interdisciplinary approach that characterizes FULL and PoliTo since its very foundation in 1859.
The programmed events in Haifa will take place in a series of seminars and lectures held from prof. Matteo Robiglio:
12th May
Lecture: WHY DID WE GO INTERDISCIPLINARY, AND HOW
13.00-15.00, Gallery, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Haifa
A brief story of the interdisciplinary design studios at Politecnico di Torino from 1968 to-day. Against the autonomy of architecture, the idea of a polytechnic approach brought into teaching. From the first experimental "laboratories" in the midst of 1968 student protests to the definition of a fully interdisciplinary curriculum, the (unreached) ideal of "design" as a shared approach among diverse disciplinary discourses and practices, the current (unexpected) role of architecture as an example for engineering curricula, and the challenge of bringing humanities in a technical school.
Lecture: HYBRID TOOLS FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR PAST
18:30-19.30, Gallery, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Haifa
Insights in the innovation strategy pursued at FULL (Future Urban Legacy Lab) at Politecnico di Torino, to address critical contemporary issues in heritage management and site design with an interdisciplinary approach.
14th May
Workshop: MIXING DISCIPLINES AND SKILLS IN FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED RESEARCH AT FULL
14.00-18.00, Amado, meeting room 2nd floor, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Haifa
Learning from the FULL model: aims, structure, funding mechanisms and research opportunities at the Politecnico di Torino's Future Urban Legacy Lab.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology profile:
Technion Israel Institute of Technology is Israel’s biggest science and engineering university, located in the city of Haifa.
It is made up of 18 faculties offering around 50 undergraduate programmes and dozens of graduate courses, covering the main science and engineering disciplines and associated fields such as architecture, medicine and computer science.
The institute is renowned for the research that it conducts in fields such as biotechnology, space science, nanotechnology, stem cell science, and energy.
Technion researchers have won Nobel Prizes for chemistry on several occasions in recent years, beginning in 2004, when Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko shared the award with an American colleague for their work on protein degradation. In 2011, Dan Chectman took the prize for his work on the formation of quasicrystals, two years before a Technion graduate, Arieh Warshel, was victorious.
The university maintains a network of international relationships, operating the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute in New York in partnership with Cornell University, and opening a campus in China’s Guangdong province.
Technion itself predates the modern state of Israel, having been founded in 1912 in what was then the Ottoman Empire.
The institution was the scene of Israel’s “battle of the languages”, a debate over what the language of instruction should be, with Hebrew eventually being chosen.
In 1923, physicist Albert Einstein visited the site and planted a palm tree which still stands outside the university’s original building in central Haifa.
Later, the university moved to a large site on the north-eastern slopes of Mount Carmel.
Prof. Matteo Robiglio, founder and director of FULL, short bio:
Prof. Matteo Robiglio, Architect, PhD, is Full Professor in Architectural and Urban Design at the Politecnico di Torino, member of the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD) and of the board of the “Architectural History and Design” PhD curriculum (DASP). From 2014 to 2018 he headed from the School of Architecture of Politecnico di Torino, and in 2017 he founded the Future Urban Legacy Lab - FULL, an interdisciplinary research center joining seven Politecnico di Torino Departments to explore the role of urban legacy and architectural heritage in world cities facing global challenges. He is the author of "RE–USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse" (2017).
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