Students at Work: TheLine (Going to China by foot) "Architecture across Boundaries 2019 International Conference"

[Il testo poi pubblicato in rivista di fascia A http://hdl.handle.net/11591/409890 è sintesi del paper “Students at Work:TheLine (Going to China by Foot)” presentato a “2019 XJTLU International Conference: Architecture across Boundaries”, accettato su Blind Peer Review (v. allegato)] Students from Universities of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Italy and some more countries working together in a national and international multi-session Workshop about TheLine Project… Many studies converge in a large-scale educational experiment: a long chain of different architectures designed by students with different construction cultures to design a huge and contemporary artifact, a 15,000-kilometer road-city for walking and cycling from Venice to Wuwei, recalling The Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall, the 5-kilometer-long linear cypress path in Bolgheri, Tuscany, El Camino de Santiago … but some iconic projects, too, such as Le Corbusier’s 1931 Algiers Plan Obus, Soria y Mata’s 1862 La Ciudad Lineal… TheLine, an architectural utopia designed ten years ago as a sort of inverse New Babylon, Constant's mobile city, thanks to the great transformations taking place today (such as The Belt and Road Initiative), can be a real event, a "project of projects" by students who inhabit extremely diverse places and living cultures, with the bold goal of being built in the near future. A common commitment, based on respect and acceptance of mutual differences, can develop new hybrid languages for contemporary architecture.