AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS 2025

Session

SS_15 REVERSING THE GAZE: REIMAGINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CITIES AND THEIR WATERWAYS

SS15

11 Jul 2025, 11:00

E1-01 (YTU Davutpasa Campus)

Conveners

SS_15 REVERSING THE GAZE: REIMAGINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CITIES AND THEIR WATERWAYS

• Manuela Ronci (Politecnico di Torino)
• Tymon Wolender (Politecnico di Torino)

2010. Water-Sensitive City: Enhancing River-Centered Planning Strategies in Turin

Prof. Loris Servillo (Politecnico di Torino), Dr Manuela Ronci (Politecnico di Torino), Tymon Wolender (Politecnico di Torino)

11/07/2025, 11:00

SS 15 | Reversing the gaze: reimagining the relationship between cities and their waterways

Oral

The topic of Urban Water Management has experienced a major shift in recent decades, driven by increasing environmental awareness and evolving social expectations. This shift marks a paradigmatic change, offering an opportunity to restore rivers to a central role in urban development, reflecting their historical interdisciplinary significance and multiple values. From being resources...

1997. Unfolding water interfaces: water between urban infrastructure and culture

Prof. Chiara Cavalieri (UCLouvain), Mr Pietro Manaresi (UCLouvain), Ms Evelien Van den Bruel (UCLouvain), Ms Rita Ventimiglia (UCLouvain), Ms Emma Veronese (Università di Bologna)

11/07/2025, 11:10

SS 15 | Reversing the gaze: reimagining the relationship between cities and their waterways

Oral

Over the centuries, the process of urbanization has progressively expanded, altered and modified the natural water cycles: water has been urbanized. This paper proposes to analyze water infrastructure as the intertwining of distinct but yet interconnected networks: surface, ground, drinking, runoff, wastewater. With the development of increasingly complex water machines, mainly conceived as a...

1922. In order for co-existing, in a just way, with the excess of water in a small favela

Alessio Mazzaro (Politecnico di Torino, DIST)

11/07/2025, 11:20

SS 15 | Reversing the gaze: reimagining the relationship between cities and their waterways

Oral

Torresmo is a community, in the eastern periphery of São Paulo, Itaim Paulista, inhabiting an informal settlement divided by a stream whose recent channelization increased the incidence of flooding.
The hydraulic safeness of the Brazilian megalopolis is planned by the Secretary of Infrastructures (SIURB) through numerical modeling -of the presence of water and its drainage- and design,...

1976. Visualising the Terrain for Water Resilience: A methodology to visualise and communicate the systemic effects of design interventions in a water system.

Mr Oisín Fee (TU Dublin)

11/07/2025, 11:30

SS 15 | Reversing the gaze: reimagining the relationship between cities and their waterways

Oral

Investigations into water systems have seen a renewed emphasis in recent times. Brought on by a diverse range of issues from water scarcity, urban flooding, ecological damage due to human processes, and rising sea levels, water has become an increasingly pertinent research topic. Firstly, this research project intends to investigate a methodology of how we understand and visualise water...