LECTIO MAGISTRALIS by Massimiliano Fuksas and Mathias Klotz

T - Design, Mediation and Decision
The talk concerns the role of architecture in decision-making processes for transforming the landscape and the city. Is it possible to activate stable systems of communication between architects and government in order to orient, explain and justify territorial transformation processes?
Invited speakers: Massimiliano Fuksas, Pierre Mansat, Thea Zuccotti

MS - The Cities in Crisis and the Hope of Architecture
The problems of the great metropolises and the solutions that architecture can offer. Architecture as a tool for conflict mediation, the participation processes and architecture's social responsibility.
Invited speakers: Stefano Boeri, Richard Burdett, Nicola di Battista, Domenico de Masi, P.K. Das, Alejandro Echeverri, Bernard Khoury, Christina von Schweinichen

MS - Architecture and Communication
How architecture communicates the essence of its action and interacts with social surroundings.
Moderator: Beatriz Colomina
Invited speakers: Benedetto Camerana, Winy Maas-MVRDV, Toni Muzi Falconi, Carlos Hernandez Pezzi, Michael Sorkin, Cino Zucchi

MS - Not in my backyard. When stakeholder communication and trasformation of landscape collide or coincide.
The importance of communicating with the citizenry in transformation processes.
Moderator: Anna Martina
Invited speakers: Richard Burdett, Anuj Dayal, Vittorio Meloni, Liviu Muresan, Manoel Ribeiro, Mario Virano

MS - Slum[e]scape
Slums: from place to escape to place of challenge. New development ideas based on citizenship, social inclusion, space and architecture for everyone.
The work of future generations of architects is fundamental to making a concrete contribution to the problem. The round table will be an occasion for discussing possible   urban renewal strategies, starting with experiences worldwide.
Invited speakers: Marc Gossé, Rodney Harber, Axel Kenya Abiko, Laura Machado, Geoffrey Payne, Pietro Garau

MS - Urban Centers
Worldwide Urban centers, facilities for fostering understanding of construction processes in the territory and, in the most successful cases, for monitoring the quality of projects and "accompanying" urban transformation.   The issue of accountability, involving architects, builders and decision-makers. And the issue of the third-party and neutral nature of urban centers as a basic condition for their credibility and legitimization.
Moderator: Carlo Olmo
Invited speakers: Piera Busacca, Maurizio Carta, François de Mazières, Diane Filippi, Jung Ho Chang, Olympia Kazi, Luigi Mazza, Rahul Mehrotra, Tarek Naga

MS - Libraries: Places for Culture and Democracy
Libraries and cultural centers as sites of knowledge and democracy: new designs.
Moderator: Marco Muscugiuri
Invited speakers: Mario Bellini, Sergio Dogliani, Kengo Kuma, Peter Wilson Bolles+Wilson, Maija Berndtson, Paolo Messina, Antonio Padoa Schioppa, Maurizio Vivarelli

SS - Archi-citizens
The architect's role as mediator in processes of urban and territorial transformation: international comparisons beginning with the case of France's CAUE.
Invited speaker: Jaime Lerner, Andrea Bruno, Bochum Yu, Bernard Haumont, John Cole, Jacques Cabanieu, Christian Gaudin, Lionel Dunet, Catherine Grandin.

SS - Promoting Social Housing Quality Worldwide
The social housing question in the light of new phenomena of poverty, immigration and urban drift: quality projects for sustainable solutions.
Moderator: Fulvio Bertamini
Invited speakers: William Alsop, Ole Bouman, Luciano Cecchi, Anna Maria Pozzo, Flora Ruchat

SS -Architecture and Economics
How big economic processes influence planning and building decisions.
Moderator: Eduardo Elquezabal e Angelo Caruso di Spaccaforno
Nvited speakers: Benedetto Antonini, Alberto Arenas Pizarro, Antonio Spallino, Fernando Sequeira, Hugo Storero

Attività Commissioni e Gruppi di lavoro UIA
UIAWP Spiritual places, Presentation
UIAWP Habitat Region I, Transmitting Habitat
UIAWP Intermediate Cities, Presentation
UIAWP Architecture & Children , Specialist Forum Democracy 07
UIAWP Il ruolo dell'architetto