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Floating urbanism: The bold vision of streetless cities.

par Feldzer, Tania;Liotta, Salvator-John ;Dufrasnes, Emmanuel
Référence World Conference on Floating Solutions: WCFS 2024(4: 2-4 decembre 2024: Hong Kong), Proceedings of the Fourth World Conference on Floating Solutions: WCFS 2024, Springer Nature, Singapore, Vol. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, volume 597, Ed. 1, page (1010)
Publication Publié, 2025-05-25

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To build upon the discussions initiated by Rutger de Graaf on floating urbanism at the recent WCFS conferences, this docu-ment aims to not only delve into the potential of reimagining street spaces in floating cities but also to shed light on the innova-tive concept of "floating urbanism," which envisions cities free from traditional streets. It critically examines and reimagines the foundational principles of urban planning, positing the provocative idea that cities might not require streets to serve as their backbone.Thought an experiment made during the SIP (Pedagogical Week Innovation) in ULB (University Libre de Brux-elles) in March 2024, the students were invited to work on conceptual exercises to rethink street functions in urban design, based on the idea that the absence can create new perspectives of mobility. From Tim Ingold's work, students were tasked to reimagining urban mobility and space in existing cities built without streets, Catalhoyuk in Turkey, Ganvié in Benim and Uros in Peru. The methodology consists of three steps: first, developing the DNA of each given city model. Then, by using creative thinking techniques, such as mind mapping and SCAMPER, generate innovative ideas on 5 key mobility concepts: mobility of memory, mobility in time, mobility for networks and generative infrastructure, and mobility for division. Finally, by overlayer-ing the 3d models obtained, we have produced a series of prototypes of innovative mobility in cities. The text shows how float-ing urbanism offers new potentialities, emphasising ecological management, community spaces, adaptability to climate change, and integrated mobility networks in time motion.