TEDEA | Teorie dell’architettura. Immaginari del reale e latenze figurate

The TEDEA project – acronym for Theories of Architecture – is dedicated to the tools and modes of theoretical production in architecture and, as plural, to the multidisciplinary exploration and comparison among different positions in the field. The research unit is promoted by professors and researchers from the Venetian school and other universities who direct their studies towards the investigation of "imaginaries of the real and figurative latencies'': to concrete presences and abstractions that offer themselves as coordinates or tools for the emergence and definition of the architectural design. Tedea's first objective is to produce research, didactic and design experimentations, conferences, seminars and exhibitions in order to reactivate the debate around the aura of architecture, that tangible and aleatory substance assimilated to the term 'theory'. Represent common fields of work and discussion: the ways of observing reality, of interpreting it, of defining narratives, reflection on words and modes of representation, the setting up, the process of definition, the design narrative and its the effects; the critical reading of works and authors, the role of criticism and curatorship. Theory arises precisely from the observation of reality and tends to fall back into the same. Placing architecture at the centre of reasoning means always verifying the reasons, modes, and purposes that substantiate the project.