Architecture - Urban Regeneration

General objectives The Course provides the appropriate knowledge of housing policies, strategies and tools, within the current national and international regulatory framework, with particular reference to urban regeneration strategies. Within this framework, the Course refers to the main case studies and the best practices that represent emblematic experiences, in the European context, in terms of environmental sustainability, saving of land use and social inclusion, in order to pursue high levels of urban quality, in the construction of the "public city" and in the enhancement of “common goods”. Specific objectives Knowledge and understanding At the end of the Course the student must have acquired knowledge and understanding skills, as well as skills that allow to support, in a theoretical-methodological approach, the implementation of urban regeneration strategies aimed specifically at urban areas characterized by low levels of livability and marginal conditions – physical, functional, environmental, socio-economic – with particular reference to the settlements of public and social housing. The student must also have acquired adequate and specific knowledge of the policies, strategies, tools, and related procedures and implementation mechanisms, for the intervention. The intervenction, characterized by multidimensionality and integration, refers to national and international legislative frameworks, and to different territorial contexts. It have to consider preventive assessments on environmental, morphological and functional and social feasibility, in line with the integration and multidisciplinary characteristics of urban regeneration. The assestment of knowledge and understanding will be carried out through the experimentation activity, carried out during the Course, and through the examination test. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding At the end of the Course the student must have the ability to apply a methodological-operational, integrated, iterative, multiscalar and interdisciplinary approach, aimed at testing the knowledge and understanding skills acquired, to be applied to the resolution of complex problems inherent in the regeneration of marginal contexts of the contemporary city, characterized by poor levels of livability. This ability will be pursued through an experimentation activity, which involves the simulation of a real urban planning process applied to a real territorial context. The experimentation activity, carried out by the students both in groups and individually, will allow to exercise critical-interpretative skills and independent judgment, as well as problem solving and team working. The assestment of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding acquired will be carried out through intermediate feedbacks and through the examination test. Independent judgment At the end of the Course the student will have to demonstrate critical-interpretative, synthetic-evaluative and proactive skills within the knowledge acquired and the experimentation activities carried out, highlighting independence judgment and originality. In particular, awareness of the ethical and civil role of the regeneration project aimed at housing must emerge, as well as its complexity and its necessary interdisciplinarity. The achievement of these skills will be acquired during the course, throught interactions and feedback during the theoretical-disciplinary communications, and during the experimentation activity, through the simulation of a real urban regeneration process. The assestment of the skills acquired will be carried out through intermediate feedback and through the examination test. Communicative ability At the end of the Course the student must be able, individually and as part of a team working, to communicate and transmit in an effective and original way, also through advanced and multimedial communication tools, the theoretical, methodological and operational skills acquired both during the theoretical communications and during the experimentation activity. The assestment of the abilities acquired will be carried out through intermediate feedback and through the examination test. Learning skill At the end of the Course students must demonstrate autonomous learning skills, which have contributed to the functioning and growth of their skills and abilities. In particular must demonstrate also the interest about issues relating to the theme of housing and, more generally, the urban planning, aimed at the regeneration of the areas of the contemporary city characterized by physical, functional, environmental, socio-economic conditions of marginality. The acquisition of these skills will be carried out both through the theoretical-disciplinary and methodological lessons imparted by the teacher during the Course, aimed at increase the framework of competences and of the most innovative national and international disciplinary approaches, as well as through the assiduous and active participation in the experimental activity. The assestment of the abilities acquired will be carried out, above all, through the examination test.