The essay interprets the global climate system as a relational condition that connects oceans, land masses, soil depths, biospheres, and human societies: a great planetary interior within which every other transversal and interconnected sphere is inscribed, and which humanity has co-produced for centuries in an increasingly evident and aggressive manner, to the point that the atmosphere itself has become an economic and political object. Fostering a new research horizon, within the conscious perspective assuming that inhabiting the Earth always means producing climate, and that today such production is the object of political and design decisions at the global level. For at least fifty years we have agreed that the former ideology of nature, organized into separate kingdoms, represents an entirely unfaithful and unproductive figuration of the vast interrelated system in which every transformation is, instead, a co-transformation. Minerals, flora, fauna (including humans) are infinitely intertwined within a universe of habitats, milieus, and ecosystems whose fragility and sensitivity to emissions, waste production, and energetic imbalances are increasingly revealed by the acceleration of climate change. With reference to two different scalar and conceptual dimensions, and in resonance with recent research on the subject, this contribution argues for the political role of design research concerning the relationship between climate and built forms and identifies public space as the privileged site for a renewed climatizing capacity of architecture.
Il saggio assume il sistema climatico globale come una condizione relazionale che connette oceani, terre emerse, profondità dei suoli, biosfere e società umane, un grande interno planetario in cui ogni altra sfera trasversale e interconnessa è inscritta, e che l’uomo co-produce da secoli, in modo progressivamente sempre più evidente ed aggressivo, al punto che la stessa atmosfera è divenuta oggetto economico e politico. il contributo individua un nuovo orizzonte della ricerca architettonica, nella consapevole prospettiva che abitare la Terra equivale sempre a produrre clima, e che oggi tale produzione è oggetto di decisioni strategiche a livello planetario. Da almeno cinquant’anni conveniamo che la trascorsa ideologia della natura, organizzata in regni separati, è una figurazione del tutto infedele e improduttiva del grande sistema interrelato, in cui ogni trasformazione è, invece, una co-trasformazione. Minerali, Flora, Fauna, uomo incluso, sono infinitamente intrecciati in un universo di habitat, milieux, ecosistemi, che l’accelerazione del cambiamento climatico mostra sempre più fragili e sensibili alle emissioni, alla produzione dei rifiuti, agli squilibri energetici. In rapporto a due diverse dimensioni scalari e concettuali e in risonanza con alcune recenti ricerche sul tema, si discute il ruolo politico della ricerca in progettazione sul rapporto fra clima e forme costruite, individuando lo spazio pubblico come luogo precipuo di una nuova capacità climatizzatrice dell’architettura.
Tesoriere, Z. (2026). Where is the Horizon? The Climate crisis and the need for a situated research on architecture and climascapes. In ClimaScapes. Designing urban streetscape with Nature and Climate (pp. 26-38). Franco Angeli.
Where is the Horizon? The Climate crisis and the need for a situated research on architecture and climascapes
Tesoriere, Zeila
2026-01-01
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The essay interprets the global climate system as a relational condition that connects oceans, land masses, soil depths, biospheres, and human societies: a great planetary interior within which every other transversal and interconnected sphere is inscribed, and which humanity has co-produced for centuries in an increasingly evident and aggressive manner, to the point that the atmosphere itself has become an economic and political object. Fostering a new research horizon, within the conscious perspective assuming that inhabiting the Earth always means producing climate, and that today such production is the object of political and design decisions at the global level. For at least fifty years we have agreed that the former ideology of nature, organized into separate kingdoms, represents an entirely unfaithful and unproductive figuration of the vast interrelated system in which every transformation is, instead, a co-transformation. Minerals, flora, fauna (including humans) are infinitely intertwined within a universe of habitats, milieus, and ecosystems whose fragility and sensitivity to emissions, waste production, and energetic imbalances are increasingly revealed by the acceleration of climate change. With reference to two different scalar and conceptual dimensions, and in resonance with recent research on the subject, this contribution argues for the political role of design research concerning the relationship between climate and built forms and identifies public space as the privileged site for a renewed climatizing capacity of architecture.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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