2018
Valentina Nappi
2018 — Eterotopia
Safe cities, control and publicness
Rossella Ferorelli
Rossella Ferorelli
In an age of social, ecological and economic reorganization, the common feeling tends more and more to perceive the city as a hostile space to live in, quite the opposite of our homes. Is it though possible to reverse this point of view, and to find out that we can feel even safer in the urban space than in the domestic space? Rossella Ferorelli is Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milano, where she discussed a thesis on public space in the post-digital era. As a researcher, she studies the evolution of urban space, information, and biopolitics, along with the progress of architectural mediatization through the internet. Since 2011 she is the co-founder of SMALL – Soft Metropolitan Architecture & Landscape Lab, an architectural firm and a research, curatorial and design studio, focused on the contemporary urban condition and based in Bari and Milan. SMALL’s most recent activities concern the reuse of abandoned urban landscapes and the transformation of the public space design.
