The Life of Airports (Round Table / Exhibition)

i2a istituto internazionale di architettura will be organizing on Friday 16 March 2012 at 8pm in Vico Morcote a round table on airports and their complexity. Representatives of the fields of airport management and design will be joined by two artists to exchange stories, uses, criticality and design of several airports in and around Ticino. They will be offering a more poetic vision of infrastructure as a reflection on spatial types.
This discussion will coincide with the opening of the exhibition The life of airports. Two case studies: Lugano and Santa Maria Island (Azores).

The event is part of the program of studies infrarealities on infrastructure and contemporary urban territory launched by i2a in 2011. i2a operates by bringing together the analysis and design work of students from universities around the world (from the Master in Urban Vision and Architectural Design of the Domus Academy in Milan to the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York etc...) and also experts from a variety of disciplines. The goal is to create proposals for landscape management and development, useful for public, private and academic administrations.

Exhibiton open until April 25.


Image of Giuseppe De Mattia/Nowhere Gallery, Milano 2012: Isola nell'isola #2, Santa Maria-Azores (Portugal)