Studio MA2 (Vigano)

Questioning the evolution of the body in the space, governing the challenges posed by the evolution of a "natural" and public landscape, used by a growing population, will be examined and will become the object of spatial and conceptual investigations at different scales, the city, the landscapes, and the living space. Some specific situations within Lausanne agglomeration will question the idea and form of the contemporary metropolis.

New forms of coexistence - between different species, populations, activities - will then be made possible, building new spaces for lives, based on strategies to open new relationships, connections intensifying, and adapting the inhabited landscape to climate change, as well as the notion of health and body/bodies' well-being that derives from its use.

Beyond the opposition center/periphery, the concept of City-Territory allows to read the dispersed contemporary condition as a potential for the construction of a sustainable and innovative urban dimension, where the notion of recycling/reinvestment/territorial care reverses the idea that urbanization is only a wasteful process and considers it, on the contrary, as a "stock" and a reservoir of energy and potential.

In the context of the "Ville-Territoire Alpino-Lémanique", a vast inhabited landscape that stretches along the shores of Lake Geneva, the Design Studio will focus on a piece of this metropolis and its landscape: Lausanne, a territory in which urbanization dynamics are exerting pressures on ecosystems.

Here, topographical and hydrographical systems, networks of facilities and infrastructures, agricultural landscapes in transformation, protected areas and parks, heterogeneous residential fabrics have drawn over time specific territorial structures, in some cases weak or discrete, which today need to be profoundly reinterpreted and reimagined. Indeed, the multiple ecosystem services that these structures provide are crucial for the reflection on the ecological and socio-economic transition project.