Interactive culture

[...] On the one hand, a strong design impulse, born from a real emotional impulse. On the other hand, a desire, a need, as contemporary as possible: to deal with realities that are more distant from architecture, but which are nevertheless fundamental for a successful design. [...]

[...] We must never forget that buildings sometimes carry the name of their creator, but they are always choral works. They are like harmonious music played masterfully by a well-tuned orchestra. [...]

[...] Multipotentiality is the ability to express yourself in different fields and commit in different activities by developing appropriate skills, capable of making improvements and innovations. [...]

[...] I do believe that contacts between photographers and specialist of any kind is of extremely importance for documentary photography. The main risk that photographer can occur is to work in fields that are unknown to him. [...]

[...] Most young architects who leave university, despite having graduated with top marks and in a relatively adequate period of time, find difficulties to fit into the professional environment. [...]

[...] Together, we can optimise our ability to see every possible solution; multidisciplinary design is all about collaboration, being curious and adaptive, combining methods and creating new ones. [...]

[...] As a young researcher, having a multidisciplinary approach for me means remembering that there isn’t just one magnifying glass through which looking at reality, but several ones. [...]

[...] By gathering relevant data regarding people’s perception and their behaviour in the urban environment, we will be able to overlay on the traditional urban planning layers the urban identity of a place, through a study of the individual’s experience, introducing a top-bottom-top mechanism and leading to innovation in the urban planning process. [...]

[...] Therefore, adopting an integrated and multidisciplinary approach that involves transversal skills and allows identifying innovative solutions is an essential tool to cope with the direct and indirect impacts of our projects and activities. [...]

[...] The simple parts, the zeros, create a complex structure that moves, in continuous evolution. But evolution can only depend on a renewed knowledge, on the discovery of the new and the continuous comparison with others, with people who, even if they do not have your same role, can have ideas to share, to take care of and to grow. [...]

[...] Although apparently this draws a line between who in the engineering field is dedicated to a consumer product and who instead designs a component product, the moment of human interaction is luckily there also for an engineer who works on component. [...]

[...] In a world in continuous progress and movement, in continuous evolution, in contact with different realities, multidisciplinarity is the contamination, understood with a positive meaning, of cultures, styles, languages and techniques that leads to exceptional results. [...]

[...] it is necessary to consider a reality that is increasingly taking shape and that today it’s essential to plan constructions and buildings that could be defined as the "future generation’ one": we talk about all energy saving studies, the use of innovative materials and the development of sustainable green architecture. [...]

[...] This is only an example that shows how multidisciplinary competences are indispensable in the watchmaking industry. The success of a timepiece is given by the combination of manual, theoretical and even digital competences. [...]

[...] If we believe in the architect as a social figure and that architecture is a social construct as well as a material one, then we believe in multidisciplinarity. Believing it means being willing to be taken over; questioning one’s field of action or our comfort zone; be willing to get contaminated. [...]

[...] Law itself, I believe, is one of the greatest examples of multidisciplinarity: its true aim is, in fact, to bring order to chaos, in a yearning for regulation that invests each aspect of everyday life: from legislation governing architecture and engineering to rules on the boundaries of science and bioethics to regulations protecting pieces of art and monuments, up to laws limiting the legal order itself, that is, meta-law in its purest form. [...]

[...] I believe that collaboration, in particular between an architect and a photographer, is highly important. When the architect is creating a project, he has a mental image of it and it is up to the photographer to restore that image and also show certain aspects the architect had not considered. [...]

[...] I have learnt how being a multidisciplinary skilled designer does not barely mean knowing how to juggle the architecture and building engineering related subjects, but also and above all, to deepen and be intrigued by a whole vast scenario of disciplines even far from the defined architecture framework. [...]

[...] Since the first day he entered the Roman Pantheon, the Japanese architect Tadao Ando describes this alchemy as an “experience of space”. [...]

[...] Artists, collagists, muralists, illustrators, photographers, architects, and students... they all contributed together to our project. They are all voices – coming indeed from different fields – that often do not dialogue but which, in our opinion, help to outline a portrait as multifaceted and complete as possible on our research topics. [...]