Urban Boundaries and Innovative Scenarios

Abstract

The New Peripheries section of the Ociam International Comparison Exhibition gathers eighteen panels conceived by different authors invited to define their own view on the theme of fragility in contexts of marginality. Each proposal declined the theme of the New Peripheries according to its own original point of view. A collection of different looks capable of reading and reinterpreting the conditions in which the suburbs today find themselves, able to build a privileged observatory from which to look, observe and scrutinise not only the current conditions of the suburbs, but to glimpse their potential in the strategic role they can play today in the urban transformation processes of the city and the territory. The different proposals, each with a different angle, define a kaleidoscopic landscape consisting of different future scenarios. The authors’ response to the Ociam International Comparison Exhibition, which highlights the particular attention and sensitivity of the scientific and academic community – architects, lecturers, intellectuals, researchers, artists – to the general theme of fragility.