Workshop theme direction: Ljubljana: a city of centres
How to implement an integrated city-wide strategy for the development of Ljubljana through the creation of local centres?
Lavinia Scaletti
Lavinia Scaletti is an architectural and urban designer living and working in London. Between the hours spent working full-time in urban design, she undertakes independent projects and research, largely as an extension of her previous university work at the Royal College of Art, investigating issues of housing and city-making. Some examples of her work are the proposal for an alternative housing typology for Wembley or the study of possible solutions to prevent the demolition of Wards Corner Market in London. Her project Zip City: Houseless not Homeless, presented for the Future Architecture Platform, is an urban programme exploring a new way of living in cities without a house that redefines the concepts of ownership, sharing and home. While developing the project, rather than coming up with a set of predefined rules and theories, an important time was dedicated to research, using first-hand experience to explore the notion of home and understand it through the user’s experience.