Networked Urbanism

design thinking initiatives for a better urban life

Design critics: Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo, principals of Ecosistema Urbano
Alghero School of Architecture

Master Studio carried on during the spring semester at the Alghero School of Architecture, Urbanism, Architecture and Design Department, University of Sassari. Exploring the Nurra Region in Sardinia, the territory with the lowest population density in Italy, with 5 inhabitants per km². This Region is facing important challenges in order to develop within a sustainable model. Resources, waste, economy, social, mobility, landscape (natural+man made), urban voids, digital layer,… are the topics chosen as a starting point for a deeper understanding of the actual reality and future challenges of Nurra.

 

 


This video showed a conventional way to approach the problem of waste in Sardinia: the typical awareness campaign usually done by the local municipality.
But is it the best way to face the problem? Why doesn’t it work in Sassari and Nurra? How to involve the people in the entire process of waste management system?


ÈvVIVA la Nurra?   Is NurrAlive?

Please click on the image below to see the Social Analysis Video:

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Starting from a social analysis of the region of Nurra, I decided to focus my studies on the hamlet of Santa Maria la Palma. It is the most populated place and I found a very interesting starting point to create a process of community collaboration.

I selected some existing initiative and proposed some ideas only after I spended many days there to try to know the place and the social dinamics.

The biggest downside that I found was the necessity of a public space to increase the social organized and spontaneous activities.

The goal will be to give them a new space, with functionality and quality. It will be possible only with their collaboration to give them the responsability and the management of it.

Please click on the image below to see the presentation:

Social Net

(it is recommended to set the full screen and the timing to 4 seconds)

 

CMA logoclaudio marras


FRANCESCA TOCCO


My update for the work is published by Francesca Tocco


Here we show our next step: the questionnaire.

The last days we drive across the little villages of the Nurra to meet some people because we would like to know something about their lives and their problems.
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We went to Tottubella, Santa Maria la Palma, La Corte, Palmadula, Argentiera and Pozzo San Nicola. In this way we had a little view about the different situations;  we prepare an anonymous questionnaire in order to find some data about people who lives there, what kind of resources and needs have the site, which are the skills of each person and to start a relationship, and we made a video interview of some young guys of Tottubella.

Waiting for the results of the questionnaires and for the relative data we are preparing some diagrammatic maps about the different little villages.

questionnaire

We meet people of different ages and reading the answers we decided to concentrate our attentions to a range between 15 and 30 years old.

In the same time we create a network with the people of the different villages we met by a facebook page called Progetto Nurra where we can share information and suggestion involving young people in this project. Now it’s just the first statement but we are working with them for creating a brand and update the page.

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During all this research we turn our starting idea on a  different direction and we start to think with the eyes of people that lives there and we realized that the last proposal was made by an external view before getting in touch with the local peolpe. Thus we started to investigate about a flexible street market that can change its location during the week and its function during the day. Whit this system we can create a market of local products.

We are still working on each these aspects, we are trying to involve even more people.

So… stay tuned!!!


Anna Maria Zandara


Anna Maria Zandara 


Here the first video about Economy topic for our Studio about Networked Urbanism in Nurra.

Concept for this first step has been the free-exchange of goods, services and knowledges between individuals. We are still investigating if that concept is something that actually really fits on our site. Thus we started from the Economic and Resource topic trying to focus on a social aim as well, in order to revitalize the whole area by its own origin: the agriculture and its goods.

Next step will be investigating more by chatting with local people and asking them to answer some questionnaires.

Stay tuned!!


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