Design (in) Transition - Francesco Garofalo

The Transitional Territories lecture series explores the agency of design as a mode of investigation and reflexive transformation of the ever-changing interrelations between natural processes, societal practices, and (geo)political frameworks.

For 2025, the series is framed under the theme of Alter-Urbanizations: it aims to enable the envisioning of alternative modes of human and more-than human coexistence, of alter-urbanizations: enabling the realization of potentials for inclusive development, political emancipation, ecological justice, and plurality across scales. The first lecture of the series invites Francesco Garofalo and Openfabric with a lecture on: Design (in) Transition

Francesco Garofalo

Francesco Garofalo is a landscape architect, founder of Openfabric, Design Critic at Harvard GSD, and Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano. Since founding Openfabric, Francesco has led numerous award-winning projects worldwide, including realized public spaces and large-scale research projects with significant spatial impact. Francesco frequently lectures and teaches internationally at renowned institutions, including Cornell AAP (New York), MIT (Cambridge, MA), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Hong Kong University, IAAC (Barcelona), and London Metropolitan University

Critical Environments

This event is organized by Critical Environments, a platform that fosters intellectual exchange, collaborative knowledge production, and resource commoning. Hosted in the Section of Urban Design, Urbanism Department, the group brings design into dialogue with interdisciplinary perspectives from urban and landscape theory, critical media, and environmental studies.