Definition[edit]
Neo-futurism has been relaunched in 2007 after diffusion of “The Neo-Futuristic City Manifesto” [32][33][34][35] included in the candidature presented to BIE (Bureau of International Expositions):[36] and written by innovation designer Vito Di Bari,[37][38] [39] a former UNESCO's Executive Director,[40] to outline the vision for the city of Milan at the time of the Universal Expo 2015. Di Bari defined his neofuturistic vision as the “cross-pollination of art, cutting edge technologies and ethical values combined to create a pervasively higher quality of life”;[41] he referenced The Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development Theory[42] and reported that the name had been inspired by the United Nations’ report Our Common Future.[43] Jean-Louis Cohen has defined Neo-Futurism[44][45] as “a corollary to technology, being the structures built today byproducts of new materials to create previously impossible forms.” Etan J. Ilfeld wrote that in the contemporary neo-futurist aesthetics the machine becomes an integral element of the creative process itself, and generates the emergence of artistic modes that would have been impossible prior to computer technology.[46][47] Reyner Banham’s definition of “une architecture autre” is a call for an architecture that technologically overcomes all previous architectures but possessing an expressive form,[48] as Banham stated about neo-futuristic “Archigram’s Plug-in Computerized City, form does not have to follow function into oblivion