Nina Rappaport – Vertical Urban Factory

On May 10th, from 6 pm to 8.30 pm, Nina Rappaport, author and curator of Vertical Urban Factory, will present her book at Polifactory.

The book analyses the modern vertical factories and their significant role as innovation and change agents in the past and as a renewed contemporary opportunity to build spaces for new urban production.

“… Today manufacturing is cleaner, smaller and can spatially co-exist in dense mixed-use urban neighborhoods. Urban manufacturing creates the potential for people to live and work in the same community and adds cultural and economic vibrancy to our cities. At the same time, the resurgence of manufacturing activities in our cities challenges outdated architectural thinking about “factory” design as well as established urban land use and zoning policies. building vertically and thus more densely in cities, which, on the other hand, would reinforce the cycles of making, consuming, and recycling as part of a natural feedback loop in a new sustainable urban spatial paradigm … “

Moderator of the event:  Stefano Micelli, Cà Foscari University of Venice.

The event includes a small aperitif.

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