AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of the module is to verify and consolidate the student's knowledge in the field of planning, train him to interact with urban planners and other experts in the design and management of sector plans and projects of territorial value.

At the end of the workshop the student will have acquired the ability to:

• set up and carry out independently a program of analysis of a landscape;

• identify and represent critical issues and values of the landscape analyzed;

• produce a redevelopment proposal consistent with the characteristics detected, the boundary conditions, the existing planning framework;

• represent and describe the expected results of the project.

TEACHING METHODS

The module consists of thematic lessons held by the teacher, inspections carried out collectively and individually, atelier activities during which the students, organized in groups of 2-4 people, will work on a project, will compare themselves with colleagues, will discuss the progress with the teachers, in the framework of a constant integration between the disciplines and the modules of the laboratory.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Topics of the lessons:

• Ways of understanding the landscape. The development of the aesthetic appreciation of the landscape and its integration with the economic, historical, social components

• Natural, human, rural landscapes: relationships between morphology of the territory, systems of production, settlements. Economic transformations, crisis of historical rural landscapes and formation of new landscapes in contemporary Italy.

• The Mediterranean landscapes and the specificities of Liguria.

• Landscape and planning in the study area: municipal plans, landscape plan, basin plans and other plans with effect on environmental aspects, policies with territorial value.

Project theme (common to the two modules): The Albenga coast

Case study is the coastal strip of Albenga which includes the mouth of the Centa River, a coastline with dense urbanization and infrastructure subject to erosion phenomena, and an agricultural territory in transformation.The project will concern a proposal for a new landscape in which environmental protection is compatible with territorial innovation and development processes

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gabriella Bonini e Chiara Visentin, a cura di, Paesaggi in trasformazione, Istituto Alcide Cervi – Editrice Compositori, Gattico-Bologna, 2014

Alberto Magnaghi, Il progetto locale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2000

Alberto Magnaghi, a cura di, La rappresentazione identitaria del territorio, Alinea, Firenze, 2005

Jan McHarg, Progettare con la Natura, Franco Muzzio, Padova, 2007 (1969)

Emilio Sereni, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1974 (1961)

Aldo Sestini, Conosci l’Italia. Volume VII. Il Paesaggio, Touring Club Italiano, Milano, 1963

Frederick Steiner, Costruire il paesaggio, McGraw Hill, Milano, 2004

Eugenio Turri, Il paesaggio degli uomini, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2003

Other bibliographical references will be provided during the workshop based on the topics covered

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

See general data sheet

ASSESSMENT METHODS

See general data sheet