Elsewhere City: Mapping and Diagrams as Generative Tools in Urban Design

In the past 20 years the research on new methods of design has fine-tuned the development of adaptive prototypical organizations, generative diagrams and responsive systems of description and representation of the built environment. This approach is ground on the paradigm that complexity theories not only have changed our modes of understanding the ongoing dynamics, but also they provide - in any context and with no restriction of scale - programmatic and organizational strategy, while generating formal novelty.