Mariacristina D'Oria

Architect and Ph.D. at the University of Trieste, Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture (Mean Time. Expiring Architecture, Ph.D. thesis delivered and to be discussed on 28.10.2022). Starting from the master's thesis, Expost: recycling the event, the event of recycling (2015), dedicated to the delineation of design strategies to activate the transition time between the closure of the Milan Expo and its complete disposal, develops a professional trajectory that leads it to deal, in particular, with the design of public spaces (Stradivarie Architetti Associati, 2015-2018). Through doctoral research, Mean Time. Expiring architecture consolidates her interest in the relationship between the architectural project, at its different dimensional and temporal scales, and the condition of transience that, As well as being the fundamental feature of an articulated constellation of abandoned and latent urban fragments of the contemporary city, it seems to have become today the exact condition of the architectural project. The investigation of traumatic events has also allowed us to address a disciplinary field characterized by a complex system of temporal overlaps (linked to the framing of the boundaries between past, present, and future) and then explore transdisciplinary areas that allow you to experiment with new design approaches capable of reconstructing complex maps (of places and temporality). In this sense, participation in two workshops was fundamental: "Los Mundos Derritiendose" (Institute for Posnatural Studies, Madrid) and "Posthuman and New Materialism" (University of Utrecht). Starting from the investigation of traumatized landscapes - places temporarily interrupted by a violent event, both intense and sudden or slow and erosive - I intend to continue an exploration of the possible multidimensional and multitemporal processes that the architectural project can now appropriate to address the entropic condition in which we are immersed.