DURS | Design for Urban Reassuring Scenario

A place to share, discover and debate about my PhD research in design

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Print, Build, And Customize Urban Furniture With WikiBlock (via popupcity)

Free downloadable plans, an assembly manual, sheets of plywood, and access to a Makerspace. Add a little elbow grease and you now have everything needed to print your own urban street furniture. All thanks to WikiBlock, community members can now take placemaking into their own hands, by printing and building their own furniture and street elements. (follow reading here: http://popupcity.net/print-build-and-customize-urban-furniture-with-wikiblock/)

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"They are underused and full of potential.”

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Could bad buildings damage your mental health?

Research has shown city dwellers are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression – but could individual buildings have a negative impact on wellbeing?

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Can You Learn to Love Any City?

In This Is Where You Belong, Melody Warnick experiments with how to make a place feel like home.

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How happy are you with your city? EU report data – in pictures

From immigration and integration, to concerns over housing, affordability and green space, Eurostat’s Urban Europe 2016 report contains a wealth of statistics on how residents of the EU’s biggest cities feel about where they live

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How Citizen Urbanists Are Rethinking the Bus Shelter

From Cleveland to New Orleans, community groups are crowd-sourcing funds to make these overlooked stops much more engaging.

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Discrimination by Design

The many ways design decisions treat people unequally.

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Psychology debunks the idea that we’d be happier if we lived somewhere else

We tend to overestimate how happy we’ll be in a new environment.

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Design has been often used as a key-lever in the transformation of urban places to respond to the arising needs of the contemporary society. Our cities see the growing demand for places where people can cultivate a sense of wellbeing, share their

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Book Recommendation: The Map Design Toolbox – Time-Saving Templates for Graphic Design. Illustrative maps in a colorful, flat style are all the rage, but g

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A tribute to female flâneurs: the women who reclaimed our city streets

The flâneur – the keen-eyed stroller who chronicles the minutiae of city life – has long been seen as a man’s role. From Virginia Woolf to Martha Gellhorn, it’s time we recognised the vital, transgressive work of the flâneuse

“Rather than wandering aimlessly, like her male counterpart, the flâneuse goes where she’s not supposed to”

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A Look Back: 8 Years of Social and Urban Projects

In the past eight years the world has seen important changes – stemming from natural catastrophes, global warming, war, diseases, political and...

In the past eight years the world has seen important changes – stemming from natural catastrophes, global warming, war, diseases, political and economic crisis among other things – all of which have a direct impact on the way we inhabit our planet and therefore how architects and planners are managing context-related designs for community living.

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The fall and rise of the council estate

The Long Read: For decades, the Aylesbury estate in south London has been seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. But now – just as it is being demolished – many people are starting to think again

For decades, the Aylesbury estate in south London has been seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. But now – just as it is being demolished – many people are starting to think again

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What Designers and Urban Planners Can Actually Do to Reduce Police Violence

Leaders in the field discuss what design can—and can’t—accomplish in the service of communities like Baltimore and Ferguson.

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Why it’s time to reimagine public spaces using ‘interior urbanism’

Brendan Cormier, lead curator of design for the Shekou Partnership at the Victoria and Albert Museum, on why urban design needs to be blown open to include interior spaces

How do you call it? “interior urbanism” or “urban interior” doesn’t matter...because we are working on the same issue: make our cities livable. And that’s why at Politecnico di Milano, School of Design, we are talking about it since a long time. There are so many subjects we had dealt with, from public buildings to administrative offices, from council housing to courtyards and the, public spaces. Some of them are well discussed here on https://neotopie.wordpress.com/ and others are still running through the Master course https://masteruid.com/.

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Sex and the city

Cities are built for 'anybody but women' argue campaigners. How can we move towards female-friendly urban planning?