An interesting theme of great timeliness, Urban Regeneration: new city, new habitat, new technology, has been developed by Alessandro Melis, curator of Padiglione Italia at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020, founder of Heliopolis 21 (with offices in Pisa, Berlin and Portsmouth), and by the architect Andrew Waugh of Waugh Thistleton Architects (London), moderated by Prof. David Turnbull (director of Atopia Research and visiting expert of Arup).
On the evening of Tuesday 17 September, the event approached the theme of the city as an organism in ongoing transformation. The bond between human beings and cities is reformulated in an increasingly unexpected dialogue between architectural and urban design and apparently distant disciplines like biology, economics, environmental engineering and meteorology.