Portare il centro a Milano_workshop-webinar_24 giugno 2020

WORKSHOP

Portare il centro a Milano. Trend nel retail; nuove esperienze di shopping; l’attrattività di strutture e spazi per sport, tempo libero, leisure e entertainment indoor e outdoor.

Relatori:
– Giacomo Biraghi (Esperto di città)
– Emanuele Bianchi (Vice President di Sonova Group; ex manager Amazon)
– Luca Tamini (Docente Politecnico di Milano)
– Luigi Angelini (Membro dell’Executive Board Wellness Foundation – Technogym)

PROGRAMMA


mercoledì 24 giugno 2020 – ore 17,00 – Webinar

 

IV International Seminar City, Retail and Consumption_Lisbona (P)_12-15 settembre 2017

IV International Seminar City, Retail and Consumption_Lisbona (P)_12-15 settembre 2017

Nei giorni 12-15 settembre a Lisbona si terrà la VI edizione del seminario Internazional City, Retail and Consumption, da titolo “Retail, Consumption and the New forms of Urban Governance”.  Alcuni membri del laboratorio URB&COM parteciperanno alle attività programmate, presentando l’esito di ricerche recenti. 


Merc. 13 settembre – Asse II: The new entrepreneurial logic of retail and services and the challenges they pose to scientific research and urban policies, h. 11.00-12,45
TITOLO: “Mapping deadmalls landscape: how VGI support research and actions on abandoned retail heritage
AUTORI: Giorgio Limonta, Gabriele Cavoto, Mario Paris
ABSTRACT: “Over the last two decades, Italy experimented on one hand a deep transformation in retail sector, due to a process of deregulation, which stimulated the growing of retail chains, the attraction of foreign capitals and the modernization of retail networks, and, on the other hand, the impacts of the economic crisis, which affect consumption practices and users’ behaviours. The combination of these factors and the consequent evolution – in number, dimensions and formats – of retail poles (Brunetta & Morandi, 2009) generated a strong territorial competition for urban/metropolitan areas with a progressive market saturation that, amongst other effects, accelerates the obsolescence of older settlements.In U.S., similar trends caused a selective process for a number of big box stores and shopping malls, and in several cases, they result in the appearance of deadmalls and ghostboxes. Italy is on the first phase of this process, where the number of these “retail greyfields” is increasing and where scholars and public actors are becoming aware of their territorial presence that, due to their mass and landscape impacts represent a sort of landmarks of retail abandon (Cavoto, 2014). The group of Italian deadmalls is composed by an heterogeneous set of elements, where together with timeworn settlements, also recent structures appear, sometime unfinished or just partially completed. They all belong to an increasing stock but is difficult to provide reliable data at regional or national scale.

In recent times, several authors, described those new italian landscapes of economic desertification  (Turri, 2000; Cavoto, 2014; Inti, Cantaluppi, Persichino, 2014; Minelli, 2015). Unfortunately,  they provide just fragmentary descriptions and not interpretative readings of the phenomenon. One of the cause could be the lack of a shared knowledge, based on exhaustive information and institutional data. This deficit imposes a reflection about the role of alternative databases based on alternative sources in the research about retail dismantling and depletion of local economic systems.

The aim of this contribution is reflecting on the opportunities related with the involvement of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) on this issue (Goodchild, 2007), especially when related with the platform OpenStreetMap (OSM) and presenting an original methodology of spatial analysis and territorial monitoring. This approach, developed within the URB&COM Lab of Politecnico di Milano is an useful tool for the collection and the classification of data, and is especially effective for the stock of closed, abandoned or dismantled structures. The methodology allows to set up a shared geography of dismantled retail activities both in urban and suburban contexts, and has been the starting point for several recent research related with the monitoring of urban retail systems (Limonta and Paris, 2016)”.

Gio. 14 settembre – Asse II: The new entrepreneurial logic of retail and services and the challenges they pose to scientific research and urban policies, h. 09.00-11,45
TITOLO: “Trends, risks and opportunities in current luxury-driven transformations in cities
AUTORE: Mario Paris
ABSTRACT: “Historically, urban aristocracy and, after the industrial revolution, a growing upper-middle class based on bourgeois citizens have been reference targets for producers and retailers of luxury goods. For this reason, and luxury-consumption and its impacts on economy and customers’ behaviors have been fields largely explored by many different fields (as geography, philosophy, management, marketing and economics, psychology, architecture and tourism); all these contributions underlined its consolidate relationship with urban culture. This issue is even more evident considering that not only luxury market (for goods, real estate, services) but also luxury productions (art, artisanship, design, creative productions, etc.) belong to the urban domain. Despite this strong connection with the city, luxury has been largely ignored as a topic in urban studies and planning research; or worse, it has been discussed in rather ideological and mono-directional terms (“all about gentrification”). This pre-conceived attitude prevents the exploration of potentials and innovations related with this topic. This lack is particularly serious today, when luxury, as economic sector and as system of values, involves a set of practices that affect the spatial dimension and, therefore, influences the transformation of contemporary territories and the creations of specific lifestyles as well as it impacts on the everyday life of inhabitants and space users, although they are not luxury consumers.The aim of this contribution is presenting the outcomes of a research focused on the recent urban interventions developed by luxury stakeholders, and pointing out several specific features of their actions. Therefore, they exceed the simple retail or real estate approach, developing placemaking strategies and a role as urban agents following some recent trends (from exclusiveness to prestige, masstige, etc.). For this reason, operators and practitioners belonging to this sector show a renovate interest for values and characters of places, they focus on the provision of services and experiences and not only of goods, and they use urban design, art and culture as tools for their global branding. At the same time, their actions have different social, economic and spatial impacts on the city, and a focus on recent cases study points out risks and opportunities related with these operations. In some luxury-driven intervention, it emerges a reinforcement of differences and boundaries within the city, in other cases, inverse processes of opening -sometime temporarily – of gated spaces to the urban population. Sometimes, designed transformations acting as a catalyst for urbanity and regeneration, in others they emphasize processes of polarization. In the conclusions, several open questions about governances will be pointed out and about if (and how) these interventions can produce urban values and competitive advantages for their contexts, and not only economic benefits for developers involved”.

Inoltre durante l’evento “incontro con gli autori” di giovedì 14 (h. 16.00-18.00) verrà presentato il libro “Making Prestigious Places. How luxury influences the transformation of cities“, edito da Mario Paris e pubblicato da Routledge.


Per maggiori informazioni riguardo all’evento, all’organizzazione ed alla rete internazionale di ricercatori coinvolti, si consiglia la visita al sito ufficiale del seminario, al seguente link.

Programma

 

 

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The Evolution of Luxury_Londra_25 luglio 2017

Seminario internazionale “Digital and Experiential Luxury for the New Generation” organizzato dal Luxury & Innovation Hub della WBS presso The Shard, Londra

25 luglio, h. 09,00-18,00

Mario Paris, membro del Lab. Urb&Com, parteciperà ai lavori con la relazione di chiusura, dal titolo “Luxury-led urban transformations: atmospheres, experiences and identities” nella quale sono riassunti alcuni spunti legati al libro, da lui curato, “Making Prestigious Places: How luxury influences the transformation of cities” (Routledge, 2017).

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Nouveau Reach_Toronto_12-13 maggio 2017

Il giorno 13 maggio, a Toronto (CA), presso la Ryerson University, nell’ambito della sessione “4.2 Luxury and places” della conferenza Nouveau Reach. Past, Present and Future of Luxury, Mario Paris presenterà un intervento dal titolo “Making Prestigious Places. How luxury influences the transformation of cities” sui temi trattati nell’omonimo libro da lui curato ed atteso per agosto 2017 (Ed. Routledge). Di seguito l’abstract, disponibile anche nel flyer del programma della conferenza.

Nouveau Reach. Past, Present and Future of Luxury – Toronto (CA), May 11-14
Friday, 12/5/2017, Session 4.2 – Luxury and Places KERR HALL WEST 258”
Chair: Shaun Borstrock, University of Hertfordshire

ABSTRACT

This study centers on the spatial dimension of luxury envisioned as a sector—with specific activities, operators, and investments—and as system of values, with a role as agent/accelerator of urban transformation.
Traditionally, luxury is deeply related to the city, as a locus of production, consumption, and representation but, nowadays, a change in operators’ approach marks a radical switch in the design of luxury spaces, their functional programs, and their operational rules. Following some trends related with marketing and market diversification, in several recent urban interventions practitioners use the urban/metropolitan environment as an asset and not only as a catchment basin for customers. Sometimes, their actions on the city exceed the classic exclusiveness of luxury enclaves, involving an alternative dimension, related to what we can call “prestige” (Fang, 2015). The paper offers some reflections about the influences of this transformation in contemporary cities and the potential role of public actors within these processes.

Per maggiori informazioni si rimanda al sito ufficiale: http://nouveaureach.ca/