Simone Ferracina

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Theories, methods and protocols for revaluing and reusing that which already exists. Director, Exaptive Design Office (EDO). Senior Lecturer in Architectural Ecologies + MArch Programme Director at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), The University of Edinburgh. 
BOOK: Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet (Routledge 2022). @simoneferracina.bsky.social
University of Edinburghhttps://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-simone-ferracina
Exaptive Design Officehttps://exaptivedesignoffice.com
Simone FerracinaNov 25, 2024
BG | berlinergazette.deNov 25, 2024

What might a conceptual and methodological design toolkit look like that addresses the durational and anthropocenic materiality of the third millennium, radically prioritizing practices of maintenance, reuse, care, and co-option? Simone Ferracina ( @simoneferracina ) explores this question and how human and non-human ecologies might be rethought and mobilized towards different worlds and imaginaries.

https://berlinergazette.de/dispositions-affordances-and-being-otherwise/

Dispositions, Affordances, and Being Otherwise: How to Reclaim and Unlock Environmental Potentials · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE

What might a conceptual and methodological design toolkit look like that addresses the durational and anthropocenic materiality of the third millennium, radically prioritizing practices of maintenance, reuse, care, and co-option? Simone Ferracina explores this question and how human and non-human ecologies might be rethought and mobilized towards different worlds and imaginaries. * In the first […]

BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
Simone FerracinaNov 23, 2024
My article ‘Yet’ for Vesper: Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory is now available in open access. In it, I briefly discuss the semantic fluctuations of the adverb ‘yet’ in relation to dispositions, the built environment, repurposing, the difference between use and utilisation, and pollution. I’m including here one fragment of the text. I hope that some of you will find it enjoyable and/or useful! https://www.iuav.it/sites/default/files/2024-11/Vesper%20No.%208_Vesper_WEB_25_Ferracina.pdf
Simone FerracinaSep 1, 2024
Excited to see my essay about opacity—and what architects can learn from the work of Édouard Glissant—published, in English and Italian, as part of the “Thinking Like a Mountain” project by @GAMeCBergamo . https://pensarecomeunamontagna.gamec.it/en/reclaiming-opacity-towards-errant-exaptive-and-monstrous-architectural-ecologies/
Reclaiming Opacity: Towards Errant, Exaptive and Monstrous Architectural Ecologies - Pensare come una montagna

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Pensare come una montagna
Simone FerracinaMay 5, 2024
Mitchell WhitelawMay 5, 2024

Watch this autonomous excavator build a wall from boulders - amazing demo from ETH Zurich

Digital #design is too focused on *generating* complexity de novo. Work like this shows us how computation can adapt beautifully to *found* complexity, which is already plentiful in the world. (See also Exaptive Design @simoneferracina)

https://youtu.be/P7wmotyKgXc?si=_UbHSlDJPH1IWuM3

Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry stone wall

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Simone FerracinaDec 9, 2023
Simone FerracinaNov 27, 2023

Really pleased to see my essay ‘The Ethics of Use: Repurposing Debenhams’ published on e-flux Architecture, in the fantastic ‘After Comfort: A User’s Guide’ series.

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/after-comfort/563085/the-ethics-of-use-repurposing-debenhams/

After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Simone Ferracina - The Ethics of Use: Repurposing Debenhams

Architects and designers tend to think of themselves as agents of change and innovation, yet what they do is overwhelmingly reactionary. Indeed, design mobilizes and transforms disparate objects and materials towards one another, unlocking their ability to communicate and interact.

Simone FerracinaNov 27, 2023

Really pleased to see my essay ‘The Ethics of Use: Repurposing Debenhams’ published on e-flux Architecture, in the fantastic ‘After Comfort: A User’s Guide’ series.

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/after-comfort/563085/the-ethics-of-use-repurposing-debenhams/

After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Simone Ferracina - The Ethics of Use: Repurposing Debenhams

Architects and designers tend to think of themselves as agents of change and innovation, yet what they do is overwhelmingly reactionary. Indeed, design mobilizes and transforms disparate objects and materials towards one another, unlocking their ability to communicate and interact.

Show threadSimone FerracinaOct 22, 2023
“In the twenty-first century, shouldn’t most objects and buildings be designed as temporary collections of materials and components stored for future generations and uses? And wouldn’t such practices turn notions of ownership, care, and value upside-down?”
Simone FerracinaOct 22, 2023
RIP John Habraken, designer of the WOBO (World Bottle). From Ecologies of Inception. “…the WOBO’s most provocative lesson—that objects can be designed as carriers of secondary functions, or as time capsules—remains exceptionally relevant.”
Simone FerracinaAug 15, 2023
When your job includes sending envelopes filled with subsoil, you are doing something right.
Simone FerracinaAug 14, 2023
Great to see this, and looking forward to reading it! Congrats, Adam! @adamgreenfield