Speakers 2012

Stefano Boeri (b. 1956 in Milan) is an architect and city planner. Since September 2007 he has been editor-in-chief of the international magazine Abitare, and from 2004 to 2007 of Domus. He teaches Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milan, and has been a guest professor at universities around the world. He is also the founder of Multiplicity, a research group with which he has conceived installations for some of the world’s leading architecture and art institutions, including documenta in Kassel, the Triennale in Milan, Kunstwerke in Berlin, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, and the Venice Biennale. In his studies of the contemporary urban condition, Boeri has paid particular attention to observing and trying to taxonomically describe the dynamics of urban change “in real time”. Boeri has created a series of “eclectic atlases” of urban transformation, regarding both the urban region and other areas of Europe. In 2002, with Multiplicity, he created USE – Uncertain States of Europe, a study of the continent’s future, and in 2007 published Cronache dell’abitare, a study of living conditions in Milan. In recent years, Boeri has developed and carried out many projects related to refurbishing and transforming European waterfronts (in Genoa, Naples, Trieste, Cagliari, Salonicco, Mytilene) and historic neighbourhoods for tourism and other urban functions, with major architectural projects such as the Centre Régional de la Méditerranée on the Marseille waterfront (La Villa), which began construction in December 2009 and will be inaugurated during Marseille’s term as European Capital of Culture in 2013. Boeri’s designs have been published in many international architecture reviews (2G, Mark Magazine, Icon, A+U, Domus, Lotus International) and exhibited both in Italy and abroad (at the Venice Biennale and Milan Triennale, for example). Since 2011 he has been Councillor for Culture, Expo, Fashion and Design for the Giuliano Pisapia administration in Milan.