A journey through cinematic architectures
The seminar addresses the redefinition of spaces dedicated to audiovisual performance as evolving cultural and social devices, broadening the perspective and questioning the dual nature of cinema as both event and place, as a shared experience and an architecture of the imagination.
Flashforwards. Real and Imaginary Spaces of Collective Viewing
Cinema is not just a physical space; it is also a socio-technical apparatus that is shaped by practices, economies and desires. This workshop will explore real and imagined cinemas throughout history, from early venues to multiplexes and today’s community screens, as well as unrealised and speculative designs. By exploring collective viewing practices, we may be able to imagine how cinemas will continue to evolve.
Cine/City: an urban threshold
What is the relation between the cinema and the city?
What is the role of cinema halls in changing the essence of urban fabrics?
In the seminar “Cine/City: an urban threshold,” we will discuss this urban community scope and the passage between the open, communal space of the city and the intimate, dark room of the cinema hall.
Extending the cinematographic space. Phygital design perspectives
Recent socio-technological transformations have changed the cinema experience and consumption, affecting traditional cinema attendance. We will examine the impact of post-media culture on audiovisual aesthetics and suggest how phygital design approaches, scenario creation and knowledge tools can help shape future cinema spaces.
Cinematographic structures: an engineering view
The 20th-century Italian School of Engineering has a hidden declination: the large-span bearing structures and balconies of cinema spaces, a new field of structural experimentation that, from the 1920s to the 1960s, allowed a creative and free design. Let’s start to fill the gap, setting the stage.