Simone Ferracina
@simoneferracina.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Architectural Ecologies + MArch Programme Director, University of Edinburgh. BOOK: Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet. Anti-fascist.
https://linktr.ee/simoneferracina
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RIP Bob Wilson
July 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
RIP Bob Wilson
David Farrier‘s new book, Nature‘s Genius: Evolution‘s Lessons for a Changing Planet, sounds amazing. I am also really pleased to have my work on exaptive design featured in the second chapter (The Living City), and to share his pages with so many other friends and collaborators. Highly recommended!
May 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
David Farrier‘s new book, Nature‘s Genius: Evolution‘s Lessons for a Changing Planet, sounds amazing. I am also really pleased to have my work on exaptive design featured in the second chapter (The Living City), and to share his pages with so many other friends and collaborators. Highly recommended!
Congratulations to the brilliant Mari Helland, whose work—developed in the MArch programme at ESALA, in the ‘Architecture as Support Structure’ studio run by @sepikar.bsky.social and Naomi De Barr—was just awarded the RSA New Contemporaries Medal for Architecture!
March 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Congratulations to the brilliant Mari Helland, whose work—developed in the MArch programme at ESALA, in the ‘Architecture as Support Structure’ studio run by @sepikar.bsky.social and Naomi De Barr—was just awarded the RSA New Contemporaries Medal for Architecture!
I’m including here a few fragments of the text. I hope that some of you will find it enjoyable and/or useful!
November 21, 2024 at 8:00 AM
I’m including here a few fragments of the text. I hope that some of you will find it enjoyable and/or useful!
Congratulation to Sonakshi Pandit, whose Radical Harvest project “Eco-Socialist Rituals across the Water of Leith” at ESALA has been shortlisted for the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for Best Fifth Year student!
September 15, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Congratulation to Sonakshi Pandit, whose Radical Harvest project “Eco-Socialist Rituals across the Water of Leith” at ESALA has been shortlisted for the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for Best Fifth Year student!
Humbling and exciting to win—with an MArch studio on earth construction, care, and reuse at ESALA; and with live-build projects for social enterprises and charities across the city—the Edinburgh University Students’ Association Teaching Award for Outstanding Course!
April 24, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Humbling and exciting to win—with an MArch studio on earth construction, care, and reuse at ESALA; and with live-build projects for social enterprises and charities across the city—the Edinburgh University Students’ Association Teaching Award for Outstanding Course!
Lovely to stumble upon work by the wonderful Rachel Armstrong @livingarchitect.bsky.social, which is featured in the new Power exhibition at CIVA, Brussels.
December 5, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Lovely to stumble upon work by the wonderful Rachel Armstrong @livingarchitect.bsky.social, which is featured in the new Power exhibition at CIVA, Brussels.
For those who don’t know, what these cars are saying is that they love this view of the castle.
November 21, 2023 at 5:16 PM
For those who don’t know, what these cars are saying is that they love this view of the castle.
Rahul Jain’s Invisible Demons is a must-see, gut-wrenching documentary on the violence of pollution and climate change, and on their unequal effects, in Delhi.
October 29, 2023 at 12:35 PM
Rahul Jain’s Invisible Demons is a must-see, gut-wrenching documentary on the violence of pollution and climate change, and on their unequal effects, in Delhi.
Really enjoying the AHRA international conference on Situated Ecologies of Care, currently underway in Portsmouth. Lots of wonderful talks, friends, and discussions—and a wide range of perspectives on care, architectural design (but not only), and pedagogy.
October 27, 2023 at 5:38 AM
Really enjoying the AHRA international conference on Situated Ecologies of Care, currently underway in Portsmouth. Lots of wonderful talks, friends, and discussions—and a wide range of perspectives on care, architectural design (but not only), and pedagogy.
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.”
October 22, 2023 at 4:59 PM
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.”
Over the past week, the students in the Radical Harvest EARTH/CARE/REUSE studio at ESALA have learnt about, and experimented with, a range of subsoils and earth-building techniques. Thanks to Becky and Rowland (EBUKI) for their generosity and all-around awesomeness!
October 7, 2023 at 11:28 AM
Over the past week, the students in the Radical Harvest EARTH/CARE/REUSE studio at ESALA have learnt about, and experimented with, a range of subsoils and earth-building techniques. Thanks to Becky and Rowland (EBUKI) for their generosity and all-around awesomeness!
I feel honoured to have been invited by ArcSoc, the student society at ESALA, to give a talk this Friday evening. And what a cracking poster! I hope to see some of you there.
September 20, 2023 at 7:53 PM
I feel honoured to have been invited by ArcSoc, the student society at ESALA, to give a talk this Friday evening. And what a cracking poster! I hope to see some of you there.
The only net zero these policies attain is in intelligence and basic understanding. What a sad show of ignorance and incompetence.
September 20, 2023 at 7:37 PM
The only net zero these policies attain is in intelligence and basic understanding. What a sad show of ignorance and incompetence.
A few exciting days in Belgium, started with a lecture by (the amazing) Anne Lacaton, filled with interesting presentations and conversations about adaptive reuse at the University of Hasselt, and ending with a workshop on reuse and pedagogy at Vrije University Brussels.
September 8, 2023 at 8:47 PM
A few exciting days in Belgium, started with a lecture by (the amazing) Anne Lacaton, filled with interesting presentations and conversations about adaptive reuse at the University of Hasselt, and ending with a workshop on reuse and pedagogy at Vrije University Brussels.
Temporary office
September 2, 2023 at 12:18 PM
Temporary office
Going through their book of abstracts makes me excited about next week’s ‘As Found’ International Colloquium on Adaptive Reuse @uhasselt. I’ll be contributing to a round table discussion on pedagogies for the climate emergency and for material circularity.
www.uhasselt.be/media/s5xjhu...
www.uhasselt.be/media/s5xjhu...
September 1, 2023 at 5:02 PM
Going through their book of abstracts makes me excited about next week’s ‘As Found’ International Colloquium on Adaptive Reuse @uhasselt. I’ll be contributing to a round table discussion on pedagogies for the climate emergency and for material circularity.
www.uhasselt.be/media/s5xjhu...
www.uhasselt.be/media/s5xjhu...
There are sometimes places, in cities, that make you feel welcome—places that are open to everyone, free, and made for lingering, reading a book in the shade, enjoying one’s surroundings, sitting down to rest. The biblioteca delle Oblate in Florence is one such (wonderful) place.
August 26, 2023 at 7:13 PM
There are sometimes places, in cities, that make you feel welcome—places that are open to everyone, free, and made for lingering, reading a book in the shade, enjoying one’s surroundings, sitting down to rest. The biblioteca delle Oblate in Florence is one such (wonderful) place.
Just stumbled upon pictures of my talk at Genova Design Week in May. I truly am Italian, aren’t I?
70% content, 30% gesticulation.
70% content, 30% gesticulation.
August 6, 2023 at 10:52 AM
Just stumbled upon pictures of my talk at Genova Design Week in May. I truly am Italian, aren’t I?
70% content, 30% gesticulation.
70% content, 30% gesticulation.
I had forgotten about the wonderful and poetic Venti Journal and its “inquiries into the field of the atmospheric humanities.” Glad to return to it by reading this wonderful piece by my friend Lisa Moffitt.
https://www.venti-journal.com/lisa-moffitt
https://www.venti-journal.com/lisa-moffitt
August 2, 2023 at 4:22 PM
I had forgotten about the wonderful and poetic Venti Journal and its “inquiries into the field of the atmospheric humanities.” Glad to return to it by reading this wonderful piece by my friend Lisa Moffitt.
https://www.venti-journal.com/lisa-moffitt
https://www.venti-journal.com/lisa-moffitt
I was just reminded of this very short—and lovely—piece by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zozia Dzierzawska: “New Rules for a Generous School of Architecture.” https://www.carthamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Charlotte-Malterre-Barthes-Dziersawk.pdf
August 1, 2023 at 3:59 PM
I was just reminded of this very short—and lovely—piece by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zozia Dzierzawska: “New Rules for a Generous School of Architecture.” https://www.carthamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Charlotte-Malterre-Barthes-Dziersawk.pdf