Anthropocene: utopia inversa e il progetto dialettico dell’architettura
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Date: 17 SEPTEMBER 2025 from 17:30 to 19:00
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Event location: Sala Rossa, Palazzo Marchesini, Via Marsala 26 - Bologna.
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Type: Lectures
Speaker
ISA Visiting Fellow - Gleiter Joerg
Full professor Technische Universitaet Berlin
ATTENDANCE
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Nowadays in the Anthropocene, the conditions of architecture are about to change; they have always changed, but at the moment there is a feeling that the cut is deeper, as if architecture is at a decisive turning point and humanitỳwith it. By its very nature, architecture was a utopian cultural practice accompanied by a promise of freedom and man's emancipation from the constraints of nature; this promise of freedom always came in the form of a utopian moment. Today, it is the opposite. Computer models and simulations give us a precise picture of what will happen in the future. The future is no longer open, it is presented as a closed horizon that increasingly determines our decisions and limits our freedom to act. Architectural design has always had a direction: from history towards the future. Not any more; today's architectural projects are dialectical projects. They are dialectical because they combine the modern hope for freedom with the cosine resistance (Arnold Gehlen) of inverted utopia. With Walter Benjamin, one could́speak of the architectural project as a stalled dialectic. The architectural project should realise its potential for freedom today under the constraints of the future. "Only dialectical projects are authentically historical", as one might say with Walter Benjamin, because they include the inverted historical index of the future in their forward movement.