Architectures of Resilience. Communities Between Rural and Urban Frontiers

Hosted as a joint session, this talk rethinks urbanism in the Global Majority by examining the coexistence of permanent and temporary forms within the city. It explores how informality, migration, climate, and everyday practices shape urban environments that operate beyond fixed planning models. By understanding cities as dynamic and layered systems, the session challenges conventional notions of permanence, highlighting adaptability, temporality, and resilience as key conditions for more inclusive, responsive, and socially grounded urban futures. This discussion focuses on Asia, examining architectural resilience against tabula rasa development. It highlights practices that anchor contemporary projects in traditional rural architecture, valuing local knowledge, materials, and community structures as drivers of continuity. Rural territories are framed as living cultural and ecological systems. At the urban scale, similar principles guide city interventions that reinterpret density and collective life, proposing adaptive, socially grounded futures across Asia’s rural–urban continuum today.