REDS

R.E.D.S. establishes an international network of researches, positions and projects able to break the barriers among the design disciplines and to explore sustainable and charming futures for our cities and landscapes. Our idea is to compare and to discuss studies and project produced in this field giving the opportunity to everybody to join the net and to present his position with an open call. This is the second symposium promoted by our ecological design organization. Our first meeting was in Rome and it was focused on ecological design. There were four point of view: open spaces, open systems, open sources and open scales. This time resilience is the topic. According to a definition of The Merrian Webster Dictionary -that I like because it is immediate and very simple- we could say that resilience for our cities and landscape is the ability to become strong, healthy or successful again after the economic and the environmental crisis. Or, moreover, after the information technologies revolution. But if all this is about to happen or it is already happening is clear that some essential paradigms of modernity as the union between form and function in architecture and in urbanism or as the organization of the city in functional parts have lost their significance. Our problem now is the opposite. Linking uses and forms does not make any sense since we can do almost anything everywhere trough the information technologies devices. Our problem is to give sense and new narrative to existing empty or denied forms. And to transform these in charming and performing landscapes and architecture. How will this new conditions involve and change design theories, practices and project devices? How can we impulse resilience by design?