New ways of living

• Nicola Martinelli ^[1] ; Ida Giulia Presta ^[1]
  1. [1] Politecnico di Bari

     Politecnico di Bari

     Bari, Italia

     
• Localización: TOURISCAPE2 - Transversal Tourism and Landscape International Scientific Conference: Barcelona, 5th-6th November 2020 / coord. por Ricard Pié Ninot, Carlos Jesús Rosa Jiménez, Josep María Vilanova Claret, Joaquim Sabaté Bel, Enrico Porfido, 2020, ISBN 978-84-9880-855-1, págs. 17-28
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In our society, the phenomenon of tourism is in many ways one of the mostimportant processes of urban transformation and updating of the meanings thatcities assume as a result of the large number of visitors. Marco D’Eramo writes in“Il selfie del mondo” how our age can be defined as “the age of tourism”.These currents now affect the city and the urban tissue, already overwhelmed bythis phenomenon that is difficult to monitor and assess. Alessandro Balducci, inhis reading of Urba@nit, on the occasion of the presentation of the 4th report oncities, writes that “The society of reference has changed rapidly and profoundlyin recent decades. New infrastructures are [...] the basis for the development ofthe platform economy. [...] there is the category of the so-called lean-platformsthat provide services that are not available to them: Airbnb, Uber, etc.. Airbnb,the world’s largest home rental company, does not own a home. These notes arebased on the research “Spaces for temporary inhabitants” carried out as partof the PhD course in Knowledge and Innovation in the Heritage Project, whichstudies and analyzes innovative housing models for the needs of new temporaryresidents and knowledge workers. “The user interface of these new housingmodels is changing and mutable, so we can speak in contemporary cities oftemporary inhabitants, that is all those who in a dynamic of continuous flowsleads young students, freelancers, buyers, businessmen, artists, tourists, to crosscities and post-metropolitan territories, in an extensive idea of “an urban thatgoes beyond the idea of the city as a defined unit”. A. Balducci, PRIN Beyondthe Metropolis.The research that this contribution will be about starts fromthe observation of this phenomenon and tries to deepen the effects that thisphenomenon has on urban space, looking at new forms of co-housing/co-living,trying to transform a simple traveller into a temporary inhabitant of the city. Cities will have to respond to these events without distorting their identity toomuch. In order to update and better understand these complex phenomena,we started from the similar questions posed by the Brithis Council for the VeniceArchitecture Biennale 2016 “How do we live today? But above all, how will welive tomorrow?”; There are a multitude of structures in Europe that have beenadapted to these new needs to ensure different housing solutions and a mixof living and working spaces, in a shared form. Some of the cases consideredamong the most significant, studied and analysed by the writer, are: “Crociferi”in Venice and Kalkbreite in Zurich.