Camilla Falchetti

Questo Report presenta l’elaborazione dei dati raccolti con un questionario online, preparato e diffuso da Khora Lab, con il fine di comprendere se e come la pandemia di SARS-Cov-2 possa aver mutato le prospettive future dei sistemi territoriali e delle comunità sul territorio italiano. Le ragioni del rapporto sono molteplici. Da un lato si vuole...

Globalized cultures, imaginaries, and economies are often matched to the standardization of building approaches. However, solutions that are not tailored for a specific context tend to entail environmental, economic, and social issues. Throughout human history, vernacular wisdom has produced interesting low-energy and climate-responsive architectur...

[Riassunto] Questo articolo propone un dibattito critico e costruttivo sui temi della cooperazione negli ambienti stessi della cooperazione, soprattutto sugli obiettivi reali e apparenti, sugli effetti sortiti inconsapevolmente, e sui vincitori e vinti dell'aiuto internazionale, il tutto visto da una prospettiva socio-economica mondiale. Sono qui p...

(EN) Within wider criticalthoughts on and inside international cooperation, in this contribution some reflections are made about possible approaches to evaluate the effects of cooperation actions onto recipient populations. Starting from an experience of academically-led indepententcooperation in a rural internal area of El Salvador, Central Americ...

If edifices from ancient cities such as Rome, Naples, or Venice are still standing, it is mostly because the economies in which they were framed could rely on abundant resources, available in very large support areas controlled through political, military, and/or economic power. Today, growing on abundant resources and on the conflicts to get them...

This contribution is intended to open a critical and constructive panel debate on and inside cooperation. The following thinking has its roots in the authors’ study, research, and cooperation experience with the Research and Documentation Centre in 'Technology, Architecture and City in developing Countries' (CRD-PVS) at the Politecnico di Torino, s...

A globalised world makes us face more and more global problems, questioning the actual boundaries between Global North and Global South, and at the same time highlighting all their interconnections. Therefore, a needed question to think about would reasonably be: who needs cooperation? and why? We propose that such dilemma is too often dodged, and...

Discussing about degrowth in the Global South is often a delicate topic. Compelling issues might acquire priority in a deprived “developing” context. However, foreign aid is mostly self- interested and hence venomous: when help is heteronomous and adopted for long time, populations risk to have their metabolism and resilience compromised. Nonethele...

This contribution presents a participatory and multidisciplinary approach to the development issues of a deprived area of El Salvador. Here, the various dimensions of sustainability are not taken for granted, and the area is characterized by an unproductive and undiversified rural economy, scarce access to resources and funding, as well as increasi...