Educational objectives General objectives
The course will provide students with the tools to observe, or interpret urban reality and operate in it. It will be taken into consideration some basic notions concerning the theories and methods of urban sociology. The focus will be on Urban Regeneration, some significant case studies in Italy and in Europe will be analysed. Students will focus their attention on economic, social, spatial, economic and cultural changes of some European cities in order to understand cities’ specificities and the effects of urban regeneration processes on their development perspectives.
Formative aims:
The main aims refer to the acquisition of the following skills:
- Critical reading skills of a project, an article or a spatial context, taking the perspective of various social actors and, especially, users;
- Ability to interact with scholars in the specific field
- Ability to successfully implement some simple pre-design analysis on the social field.
Students will analyse economic, social, spatial, economic and cultural changes of some European cities in order to understand cities’ specificities and the effects of urban regeneration processes on their development perspectives.
Specific Objectives:
Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course students will be able to gain a comprehensive understanding of urban regeneration processes, of their main theories and applied methods within different historic stages and social and economic contextes; on the basis of some selected case studies in Europe understand the relationship between critical awareness of theory relating to the process of urban development, and its application to specific practice settings; analyse, synthesise and evaluate both established and emerging policy and elaborate original practice ideas, on the basis of multicriterial and integrated approach and within the general perspective of sustainable development. The course will combine lectures, readings, discussions, workshops, writing a project and presentation. The evaluation of the course will be based on the elaboration in small groups of an integrated regeneration project for a defined urban area and on an oral examination.
Applying knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course students will be able to: demonstrate capacities in applied researches, site analyses and developing critical thinking skills; gain the ability to identify and define urban problems at a variety of scales, and the knowledge base necessary to enable them to solve problems, finding appropriate solutions using a range of professional skills and methodologies.they will be able to describe and detail the theoretical and policy implications of urban regeneration processes; analyze urban regeneration case studies in Europe; their strategies, methods and instruments;
demonstrate research competence by conducting a simple qualitative study via a class project using existing data sources or simple data collection. The course will combine lectures, readings, discussions, workshops, writing a project and presentation. The evaluation of the course will be based on the elaboration in small groups of an integrated regeneration project for a defined urban area and on an oral examination.
Making judgements
At the end of the course students will be able to:
demonstrate a good level of autonomous learning, helping them develop into responsible learners; critically discuss how urban regeneration theories can be applied to specific contextes;
understand the way in which european cities try to face urban transformations; understanding of and ability to produce and analyse qualitative data and gather secondary information.
read and analyze scientific researches as critical consumers (critical thinking component).Capacity to plan, to reflect upon social intervention projects and public policies designed to deal with social problems; describe how the tools of analysis and methods of sociology can be applied to the contemporary city.
Communications skills
At the end of the course students will be able to gain an adequate understanding and the capabilities to develop integrated projects and urban regeneration strategies. Communication skills and team working will also be developed during the course. Students will demonstrate effective oral, visual, and written communication. They will gain gain transferable skills and the confidence necessary to engage in knowledge communication and collaborative problem-solving. The course will combine lectures, readings, discussions, workshops, writing a project and presentation. The evaluation of the course will be based on the elaboration in small groups of an integrated regeneration project for a defined urban area and on an oral examination.
Learning skills
At the end of the course students will be able to: develop a framework for knowledge in the field of urban regeneration, preparing students for professional practice or further research activity. understand and compare different ideas and strategies as to urban regeneration processes and identify the different approaches to studying contemporary cities. They will gain the ability to identify and define urban problems at a variety of scales, and the knowledge base necessary to enable you to devise appropriate solutions using a range of professional skills and methodologies. They will be asked to become active learners, critical consumers of urban knowledge but also producers of it: they must independently formulate and address a research problem then share their results with their colleagues. The course will combine lectures, readings, discussions, workshops, writing a project and presentation. The evaluation of the course will be based on the elaboration in small groups of an integrated regeneration project for a defined urban area and on an oral examination.
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Educational objectives This course deals with the issue of Sustainable Construction in order to support design processes that aim to make the cities of the future ‘greener’, more ecologically efficient and more energy efficient, particularly as regards the construction and performance implications of improvement work at an urban and individual building level. The type of design approach required is holistic, environmentally aware and capable of making changes at the various different scales involved - from individual buildings to estates, urban districts and the city as a whole - using innovative techno-morphological solutions aimed at improving architectural and environmental quality. The course provides the design principles, methods and tools needed to build sustainably for a ‘Greener City’, prioritising the enhancement of natural, cultural and technological capital and the increase in the resilience and eco-sustainability of regeneration work given factors such as climate change and the scarcity of resources.
Specific objectives
Knowledge and ability to understand
At the end of the course the student must have acquired knowledge and understanding skills, as well as skills that allow to support, from a theoretical-methodological point of view, the setting up of strategies of sustainable design for greener cities. Furthermore, the student must have acquired an adequate and specific knowledge of the procedures and application tools to operate in the field of green regeneration of the architecture and the city, also by means of project verification methods at the various levels of investigation and the technological feasibility of the proposed regenerative solutions, demonstrating the appropriateness of design and construction, at various scales, with respect to complex context characters.
The verification of knowledge will be carried out through the design experimentation conducted during the Course, through in itinere tests and the final examination.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
At the end of the Course the student will have to demonstrate the acquisition of specific cultural, theoretical and methodological references to the technology discipline, the full knowledge of the experimental and analytical-methodological approach and the learning of contributions that articulate and characterize the Course. The student will also have to develop and verify, through integrated application processing, the knowledge and understanding skills acquired, aimed to solve complex problems related to the appropriate practice of material processes and technologies that oversee the complex relationship between the project in its theoretical, methodological and instrumental contents, the construction system and the environmental system.
the requirements of sustainability, resilience and 'green' behavior of architecture and the city, indispensable for the creation of an environmentally sustainable Smart Environment.
These capacities will be verified in the context of experimental and design activities, through simulations of regeneration processes related to architectural and urban realities, aimed at developing the ability of individual and group approach to applicative and professional problems.
The verification of the knowledge will be carried out, moreover, through the exam test proper and through tests in itinere.
Autonomy of judgment
At the end of the course the student must demonstrate the ability to acquire knowledge and experience, to evaluate and rework them for the purpose of forming an independent and original judgment. In particular, the student must demonstrate skills in the autonomous management of the necessary consideration and integration of the different interacting environmental factors in the same formulation of the regenerative project program for a sustainable architecture and a 'green city', the preventive evaluation of the intrinsic, direct and indirect effects related to the transformation, deriving from the processes of construction, in order to achieve, in trend, an ecological state of equilibrium in the planning, implementation and management of the project intervention, with the aim of restoring technologically innovative and environmentally sustainable solutions. The achievement of these critical and autonomous judgment skills will be acquired during the experimental and project activities, through simulations of regeneration processes related to architectural and urban realities.
The verification of the knowledge will be carried out, moreover, through the exam test proper and through tests in itinere.
Communication skills
At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate, for the acquisition and the operational capacity with respect to the theoretical methodological, technical and design knowledge, typical of teaching, to be able to communicate them, in an effective and innovative way, within of project proposals, using advanced and multimedia communication tools in the field of representation and different forms of language: verbal and written-graph. The achievement of these skills will be acquired during the experimental and design activities of the Design Studio that ensure full possession of the specific expressive and illustrative skills of the project. The verification of the knowledge will be carried out, moreover, through the exam test proper and through tests in itinere.
Learning ability
At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate a high capacity for autonomous learning, which allows to continuously update and increase their knowledge and skills in the field of technological design and, more generally, the issues related to urban regeneration strategies.
The acquisition of these skills will take place through specific theoretical contributions given by the teacher during the course, aimed at expanding the skills framework to access innovative methodologies, tools and applications and through constant participation in the laboratory's experimental and design activities, dialectical field verification of acquired knowledge, within concrete design experiences.
The verification of skills will take place, above all, through the exam test, structured in such a way as to highlight the autonomy in organizing one's own learning.
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