Andrea Branzi Manifesto

Seven Suggestions for a New Athens Charta

Andrea Branzi and Francesco Draisci presented together the slideshow.
'We mean to describe a new city state – a city that considers as a value the liberalisation of the urban condition, a city where the relations go through the internet, not just streets and squares … It’s not the city of the future, but the future of the present; not an ideal city, but one in search of temporary balances.'
'Reversibility: avoid rigid and definitive solutions. Use technologies and materials that can foster new ways of use.'
'Cohabitation with bio-diversities: Realise (as in the Indian metropolis) the conditions for a cohabitation between man and the animal kingdom; the technologies and the sacred; alive and dead people. Metropolis less anthropocentric and more open to bio-diversities, according to a concept of hospitality going beyond the concept of specialization and separation typical of the European culture.'
Branzi then ad-libbed, "200,000 sacred cows in London, 20,000 monkeys in Paris, 10,000 elephants in Berlin."
Blur the difference between the indoors and the outdoors, "creating a porous system, rich in amniotic exchanges."